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By Don Thomson, ASSOCIATED PRESS April 2, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/california-has-600m-in-unclaimed-can-bottle-deposits/2022/04/01/a4783bbe-b21b-11ec-9dbd-0d4609d44c1c_story.html SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is sitting on a $600 million pile of…
Apr 2, 2022By Evan Symon, CALIFORNIA GLOBE April 1, 2022 https://californiaglobe.com/articles/calrecycle-announces-330-million-proposal-to-increase-recycling-double-current-consumer-refunds/ In a press release on Friday, the California Department of Resources, Recycling, and Recovery (CalRecycle)…
Apr 1, 2022By Jonathan Lopez, GM AUTHORITY April 1, 2022 Consumer Watchdog To Crack Down On Connected Car Tech In California As modern passenger…
Apr 1, 2022The report doesn’t reveal why the county failed to bring the PPE back inside, even though Fiesta Hall was vacant. By Dan…
Mar 31, 2022By Rob Archer, KNX 1070 AM Los Angeles, CA March 30, 2022 Click here to listen to the audio of this radio…
Mar 30, 2022By Susannah Luthi, POLITICO PRO March 30, 2022 SPYING CARS: According to a new report from Consumer Watchdog, car companies are collecting and sharing a…
Mar 30, 2022By Mike DeWald, KCBS 740 AM, San Francisco, CA March 30, 2022 Click here to listen to the audio of this radio…
Mar 30, 2022The e-mails obtained under the California Public Records Act show multiple things the county tried to hide about the major mishap. By…
Mar 30, 2022By Staff Reporters, INSURANCE JOURNAL March 30, 2022 https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2022/03/30/660471.htm A new report from a consumer group calls out what it says are…
Mar 30, 2022By Ellen Snortland, PASADENA WEEKLY March 30, 2022 https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/opinion/columnists/it-s-a-dumb-blonde-world/article_185fe332-afde-11ec-b7c8-f799d37c2b35.html Hoopla! My favorite brick-and-mortar gift store in Altadena now has pro-Ukrainian and anti-Putin…
Mar 30, 2022EDITORIAL by The SANTA ROSA PRESS-DEMOCRAT Editorial Board March 29, 2022 https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/opinion/pd-editorial-deleting-government-emails-leaves-the-public-in-the-dark/ A recent whistleblower’s complaint about deletion of emails at the…
Mar 29, 2022EDITORIAL by the LOS ANGELES TIMES Editorial Board March 28, 2022 https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-03-28/editorial-california-public-records-delete-emails A fundamental principle of a free and open society is…
Mar 28, 2022By Wes Venteicher, SACRAMENTO BEE March 23, 2022 https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article259638169.html When the California Department of Insurance announced a plan to start deleting employees’…
Mar 23, 2022On Monday, Californians paid $1.60 more per gallon than the national average. By Morgan Rynor, KXTV ABC TV-10 Sacramento, CA March 21,…
Mar 21, 2022By Staff Reporters, KGTV ABC TV-10 San Diego, CA March 22, 2022 https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/class-action-lawsuit-filed-in-san-diego-federal-court-over-chrysler-minivans-recall-fire-risk-defect SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A class action lawsuit was…
Mar 16, 2022By Marissa Endicot, SANTA ROSA PRESS-DEMOCRAT March 16, 2022 https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/when-does-the-pain-at-the-pump-mean-predatory-gas-pricing/ My Press Democrat colleague, Colin Atagi, has been exploring the what —…
Mar 16, 2022By Mike Dewald, KCBS 740 AM San Francisco, CA March 14, 2022 Click here to listen to the audio of this radio…
Mar 14, 2022By Cherry Glazer, KCRW 89.9FM Santa Monica, CA March 14, 2022 Click here to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast…
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