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By Alexei Koseff, CALMATTERS https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/08/california-public-records/ Californians have a legal right to “information concerning the conduct of the people’s business,” but actually getting those public records is easier said than done. In the past few...

By Mackenzie Mays, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-02/government-transparency-measure-could-force-california-politicians-to-disclose-more-info SACRAMENTO —  An initiative proposed for the 2024 ballot could reform California’s public records laws and force politicians to disclose more information — a move...

By Andrew Sheeler, SACRAMENTO BEE https://www.sacbee.com/article277892943.html A proposed ballot initiative would force California lawmakers to disclose meetings with lobbyists and make investigations into alleged misconduct subject to public scrutiny. The measure...

By Christopher Cadelago and Melanie Mason, POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/california-lawmakers-lobbyist-meetings-ballot-proposal-00109316 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A ballot initiative likely to come before California voters next year would overhaul the state’s open records law, forcing unprecedented...

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/14/business/bank-of-america-fine/index.html Bank of America was fined $250 million this week by US federal regulators for allegedly harming customers by double-dipping on fees, withholding credit card rewards and opening fake accounts. Of...

By Melody Gutierrez, LOS ANGELES TIMES April 27, 2022 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-04-27/california-malpractice-payouts-would-rise-under-deal-to-avoid-costly-ballot-fight SACRAMENTO — Cash payments in California medical malpractice cases would go up for the first time in nearly five decades under a deal between...

By David Lazarus, LOS ANGELES TIMES September 30, 2021 https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-09-30/column-rohit-chopra-cfpb President Biden nominated Rohit Chopra to serve as the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog eight months ago. On Thursday, he finally got past Republican...

“For a consumer to somehow glean that this tip is in fact just subsidizing what the company would have paid on the back end is a completely deceptive practice,”...

By David Lazarus, LOS ANGELES TIMES January 22, 2019 https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-why-are-eyeglasses-so-expensive-20190122-story.html It’s a question I get asked frequently, most recently by a colleague who was shocked to find that his new pair of...

By Editorial Board, THE DAILY NEWS OF LOS ANGELES January 17, 2019 https://www.dailynews.com/2019/01/17/lawmakers-here-today-gone-to-maui/ The following editorial ran in The Long Beach Press-Telegram, Redlands Daily Facts, and The San Gabriel Valley Tribune in...