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The OC Watchdog blog has moved! 11 Feb 2013 | 11:13 pm
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EDD computer project came in late, overbudget 8 Feb 2013 | 10:05 pm
The state’s new $158 million online system for managing and paying disability insurance claims, which was intended to speed financial help to workers who are sick, hurt or parents of a new child, was ...
Edison employees rack up millions in business expenses 5 Feb 2013 | 08:10 pm
The highest-paid 10 percent of Southern California Edison employees earned at least $418.8 million in combined total compensation during 2011, and charged at least $11.8 million to their expense accou...
Water agency’s debt for lifetime medical benefits climbs to $545 million 1 Feb 2013 | 08:09 pm
Southern California’s largest water agency has accumulated an estimated $545 million in debt because of an uncommon retirement benefit it has promised employees: lifetime medical care. The cost will e...
13 O.C. firefighters punished in hazing 29 Jan 2013 | 10:43 am
Rank-and-file firefighters saw it as a harmless rite of passage. Administrators viewed it as an unacceptable – and possibly criminal – lack of professionalism. What is certain is that a hazing inciden...
Report provides tiny picture of California gun crime 27 Jan 2013 | 11:11 am
In 1995, amid the most violent period of California’s history, an assemblyman and former sheriff’s deputy from Elk Grove identified gaps in the statewide gun policy debate. Thousands were being murder...
Is this loan scammer unjustly jailed? 25 Jan 2013 | 01:00 pm
The people who advance civil liberties are sometimes a sorry lot. Ernesto Miranda, who inspired the “Miranda warning,” was a rapist. An anti-Semitic scandalmonger from Minnesota, Jay Near, establishe...
Lawyer: Hospital chief planted gun to ‘humble’ dissident doctor 24 Jan 2013 | 02:08 am
Nearly six years after Santa Ana police handcuffed and arrested physician Michael Fitzgibbons in a hospital parking lot, a jury began hearing evidence Wednesday that hospital administrators framed the...
O.C. firefighters express doubt about their leadership, future 24 Jan 2013 | 01:09 am
Where once they felt pride, Orange County Fire Authority firefighters are now filled with frustration and a lack of faith in their agency, according to a confidential internal survey of 259 union memb...
Probe raises questions about power pole safety 22 Jan 2013 | 10:30 pm
A state probe of widespread power outages brought on by a 2011 windstorm received scattered news coverage after it was released last week, with most reports focusing on Southern California Edison‘s d...
