Voice of OC

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A host of residents also raised concerns about poor communication from public safety officials regarding the emergency and a lack of updates as the crisis unfolded.
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Garden Grove and Stanton officials are calling for accountability from GKN Aerospace, the owners of the tank, and compensation for residents and business owners in the wake of the crisis.
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Residents and entrepreneurs forced to evacuate and shutter their businesses due to the chemical tank emergency may be reimbursed or compensated through a claims process but local officials say the details are not hashed out yet.
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Amid calls for greater regulations, State Senators approved a bill to reverse exemptions for industrial businesses from major environmental regulations, reports @NorbertoSantana.
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The chemical tank crisis is raising questions about the effectiveness of state and regional regulatory agencies on overseeing toxic chemical storage facilities and driving state and federal legislators from OC to call for better oversight rules.
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This week Voice of OC continued to keep residents apprised about the chemical tank crisis in Garden Grove as tens of thousands of residents were allowed to return home after days of being evacuated.
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On Monday evening, emergency personnel announced that the malfunctioning chemical tank in Garden Grove stabilized enough to reduce the danger zone, but roughly 16,000 people remain evacuated.
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Westminster is the latest to join a growing list of cities in Orange County banning the sale of nitrous oxide -- also known as whippets -- for recreational drug use.
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Officials in Santa Ana – Orange County’s only sanctuary city – are proposing a new law to ban local police officers from working a second job as an ICE agent as state legislators consider a similar bill.
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Orange County’s latest headcount of homeless people shows the number of houseless residents has dropped by 13% in two years, yet local officials aren’t sure exactly how that decrease happened.
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Two candidates vying to be OC’s next Treasurer-Tax Collector and manage the region’s $16 million investment share their stances in a Q&A by Voice of OC’s @NorbertoSantana.
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A new poll from UC Irvine shows OC continues to be a purple county split between Democrat, Republican and Nonpartisan voters heading into the June primaries amid heavy campaign fundraising and political hit mail, reports @NorbertoSantana.
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Voice of OC is providing voters a rundown of Orange County’s most competitive races and who is funding them weeks ahead of the June primaries.
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Anaheim officials are pushing back against a state proposal to divert some local tax revenue to California’s long-promised high speed rail – a move they say would severely harm city coffers.
https://t.co/pQ2Lx74fTF

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Santa Ana officials are weighing cutting park repairs, an afterschool program and other services to stave off what is now projected to be a $13 million budget gap going into the summer.
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Orange voters are likely going to be asked this November if they are willing to pay more in sales taxes and if visitors should pay more in taxes for staying at local hotels to help address a longtime structural deficit.
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Almost a year since widespread deportation raids ramped up in OC, elected officials in most cities have not taken any official action to respond to the sweeps either in support of immigrants or in support of federal enforcement.
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New housing could soon be built near Saddleback College in Mission Viejo after city officials gave the greenlight to inspect the 22.8 acre city owned land proposed for development.
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Over 25,000 housing units have been built in Orange County between 2021 to 2024 to help curb California’s housing crisis. About 17% -- 4,361 -- of them qualified as affordable for low and very low income families.
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