The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog today filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, saying that Google's failure to offer U.S. users…
Jul 7, 2015According to a report released by Google (PDF) this month, the company's self-driving cars were involved in two human-error accidents in the month…
Jul 6, 2015The California Franchise Tax Board had a lot to say about Blue Shield in its 16-page report following its audit of the…
Jul 6, 2015Filling up at the pump is often painful in California, where drivers tend to pay more for gasoline than in most other…
Jul 6, 2015July 2, 2015 -- As an estimated 2.4 million Southern Californians hit the roads this Fourth of July holiday weekend, a Santa…
Jul 2, 2015At a meeting of the state commission charged with investigating gas price manipulation, Consumer Watchdog delivered an analysis showing that since the…
Jul 1, 2015Consumer Watchdog says the price fixing is not just about the profit. Oil refiners are trying to drive up prices in part…
Jul 1, 2015Oil refiners are gouging California motorists by charging branded stations an average of 30 cents more a gallon for gasoline than unbranded…
Jun 30, 2015At a meeting of the state commission charged with investigating gas price manipulation, Consumer Watchdog delivered an analysis showing that since the…
Jun 30, 2015Santa Monica-area state Assemblyman Richard Bloom should drop his bill to hike the fee for filing a state ballot initiative to $2,500,…
Jun 30, 2015Major oil refiners are artificially hiking gasoline prices throughout California by charging branded gas stations an average of 30 cents a gallon…
Jun 30, 2015High gas prices in California are being "manipulated" by oil refiners, a consumers' group believes. The group, "Consumer Watchdog," presented its analysis…
Jun 30, 2015It has been a quiet first two weeks for net neutrality. While the Federal Communications Commission’s new rules governing Internet providers like…
Jun 28, 2015Prescription drug overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in California. A bill in the state legislature, SB 482 (Lara), aims…
Jun 23, 2015California Attorney General Kamala Harris does not need to advance a widely reviled ballot initiative authorizing the murder of homosexuals, a Sacramento…
Jun 23, 2015SACRAMENTO -- As millions of Americans nervously await the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on a key provision of the health care law…
Jun 23, 2015SACRAMENTO — A privacy advocacy group says the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Monday in California v. Patel could make cities' efforts to…
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