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The Blue Wave Election and Homelessness led the list of top stories for the Voice of OC team in 2018 along with a host of scrappy, daily enterprise reporting scoops uncovering fraud, waste and abuse across Orange County. Readers can really help spur this kind of reporting this week – as all contributions before Dec. 31 get doubled by a national foundation effort to bolster local nonprofit news.
Orange County’s top watchdog of public dollars, Eric Woolery, is accused by a former employee of having government employees drive his young children to school and other activities during work hours and babysit them at the office.
Publisher Norberto Santana Jr. thanks the special donors who make Voice of OC possible along with reviewing the biggest stories of 2017.
Newport Beach Daily Pilot Columnist Barbara Venezia writes about why she joined the Voice of OC board of directors as well as the future of online, non-profit news just as national journalism foundations select the Orange County-based newsroom to participate in a special fundraising match program through Dec. 31. Venezia also will chair a select group of community advisors to the Voice of OC newsroom.
County Supervisors Tuesday unanimously voted to pay Voice of OC $121,396 in legal fees after losing a Superior Court case for refusing to release public records about Supervisor Todd Spitzer’s handcuffing a preacher at a Wahoo’s restaurant.