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restaurant ratings Archive
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1 out of 4 of us get food poisoning, but we have no restaurant ratings in Orange County
Posted on February 26, 2009 | 2 CommentsAs many as a quarter of Americans suffer a food-borne illness each year — though only a fraction of those cases get linked to high-profile outbreaks like the recent salmonella-peanut... -
Janet Nguyen’s vote against restaurant ratings makes the “Food Safety News”
Posted on January 5, 2009 | No CommentsRuh-roh! Just when Supervisor Janet Nguyen thought she could run away from her vote against proposed Restaurant Ratings, the “Food Safety News,” which is produced by Iowa State University, picked... -
Did Supervisor Nguyen vote against restaurant ratings to pander to failing Little Saigon restaurants?
Posted on January 3, 2009 | 3 CommentsLocal businesses in Little Saigon, “especially nail salons and restaurants, are taking a hit during this economic downtown,” according to the O.C. Register. Is this why O.C. Supervisor Janet Nguyen... -
Van Tran defended unsanitary food before Janet Nguyen voted against restaurant ratings
Posted on December 30, 2008 | 4 Comments(Picture Courtesy of Getty Images) We recently broke the story that Nguyen voted against proposed restaurant grading systems without telling anyone that her husband and her chief of staff own... -
Prevatt says Janet Nguyen didn’t have a conflict of interest
Posted on December 21, 2008 | 12 CommentsThe Liberal OC’s Chris Prevatt finally weighed in on the ongoing Janet Nguyen restaurant rating scandal – but he did so at the Bolsavik blog instead of discussing this on... -
Supervisor Nguyen collected over $12,000 this year from restaurants & food companies, including major violators
Posted on December 19, 2008 | 15 CommentsBusted! It turns out that Supervisor Janet Nguyen had even more conflicts of interest when she voted against a pair of proposals to rate O.C. restaurants. I went to the... -
OC Grand Jury report strongly recommended grading system for restaurants
Posted on December 19, 2008 | 1 CommentSo was O.C. Supervisor Chris Norby right when he told me today that the current County restaurant inspection system isn’t broke? I did a bit of digging and found that... -
Norby says he did not know about Janet Nguyen’s conflict of interest
Posted on December 18, 2008 | No CommentsI went to O.C. Supervisor Chris Norby’s Christmas Party today and had a chance to ask Norby if he knew about Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s conflict of interest regarding the recent...
