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By City News Service, THE DAILY NEWS OF LOS ANGELES April 5, 2022 Ex-LA City Attorney’s Office lawyer pleads guilty in DWP…
Apr 5, 2022
By Dustin Gardiner and J.D. Morris, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE April 5, 2022 https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/sf-bottle-recycling-17052505.php When San Francisco launched its mobile recycling program at…
Apr 5, 2022
Federal prosecutors allege a key discussion about the extortion took place during a Dec. 1, 2017 meeting. By Eric Leonard, KNBC TV-4,…
Apr 5, 2022
Gov. Newsom’s budget calls for investing $155 million to expand mobile recycling and reverse vending machine locations. By DeAnne Toto, RECYCLING TODAY…
Apr 4, 2022
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, 2022
By 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, 2022
By Jonathan Lopez, GM AUTHORITY April 1, 2022 Consumer Watchdog To Crack Down On Connected Car Tech In California As modern passenger…
Apr 1, 2022
The report doesn’t reveal why the county failed to bring the PPE back inside, even though Fiesta Hall was vacant. By Dan…
Mar 31, 2022
By Rob Archer, KNX 1070 AM Los Angeles, CA March 30, 2022 Click here to listen to the audio of this radio…
Mar 30, 2022
By 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, 2022
By Mike DeWald, KCBS 740 AM, San Francisco, CA March 30, 2022 Click here to listen to the audio of this radio…
Mar 30, 2022
The e-mails obtained under the California Public Records Act show multiple things the county tried to hide about the major mishap. By…
Mar 30, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
EDITORIAL 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, 2022
EDITORIAL 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
On 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, 2022