SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California doctors would be required to check a statewide database before prescribing narcotics under a bill moving through the…
May 28, 2015Fresh off its failed merger with Comcast, Time Warner Cable reportedly was speeding Monday toward a link with Charter Communications for a…
May 26, 2015Ric Romero interviews Jamie Court of Consumer Watchdog about why Consumer Watchdog has called on California’s United States Attorneys to investigate the…
May 22, 2015Almost four dozen Americans die every day from prescription pain-killer overdoses. These deaths coincide with a sharp increase in the number of…
May 20, 2015Will rising gas prices put a U-turn in holiday travel plans? Not according to AAA, which expects 37 million Americans to travel…
May 20, 2015In April, a group of consumer advocate groups including The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC),…
May 19, 2015Google came under fire Tuesday after a string of children's advocacy groups filed an update to their Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging…
May 19, 2015YouTube Kids, YouTube’s initial entry into making its video-sharing service more accessible to parents and their children, has come under fire yet…
May 19, 2015There is absolutely no doubt about a few facts surrounding the gasoline price surge Californians experienced in late winter and early spring.…
May 19, 2015A consumer advocacy organization has launched a campaign to get state officials to explain why they revoked Blue Shield of California's tax-exempt…
May 18, 2015The riskiest thing about self-driving vehicles may turn out to be the human drivers of other vehicles. Four of the nearly 50…
May 17, 2015The company has not yet applied for the permit the cars will need, however Google says its fully autonomous pod-shaped cars are…
May 16, 2015Billionaire Tom Steyer wants to tax extraction and require more transparency ANAHEIM, CA -- Walthy Bay Area environmentalist Tom Steyer, who for…
May 16, 2015ANAHEIM (CBSLA.com) — Consumer advocates are working on a plan to get oil companies to open up their books amid a recent…
May 15, 2015"California’s oil refiners are the only industry in America that make a fortune when their factories go down,” said Jamie Court,…
May 15, 2015Google has revealed that its driverless cars have been involved in accidents 11 times, but says all the collisions were caused by…
May 12, 2015San Francisco — Consumer Watchdog, a California-based group, is calling on Google to release data about accidents involving its driverless cars. The…
May 12, 2015In most of the incidents, the Google car was rear-ended, the company says Google, founded on Sept. 4, 1998, will be turning…
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