Read all about it in the OC Weekly’s Navel Gazing blog:
Voice of OC Launches!
The much speculated-about, much delayed, non-profit journalism website helmed by ex-Register digger Norberto Santana Jr. went live today....I checked out some of the reporting on VOC, and it looks promising. Perhaps most interesting among today’s reports is:
Big Questions About a Little Known Tax
Workers at the County Assessor's office say the county has allowed as much as $125 million in uncollected taxes to slip through it's fingers because of a secret tax break offered to large businesses who use government leases.
"I'm very worried," said County Supervisor Bill Campbell after listening to a presentation made by Orange County Employees Association General Manager Nick Berardino at this week's supervisors' meeting.
Berardino came to the supervisor's meeting at the urging of assessor employees who say County Assessor Webster Guillory has been shorting the public on uncollected taxes….
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