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KABC TV-7 Los Angeles – Californians Paying More Than Rest of Nation for Gas

April 9, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Consumer Watchdog said refiners continued to reap a windfall in the wake of refinery shutdowns in February, driving prices at the pump artificially high, a situation exacerbated by low gasoline inventories in California.</p>

KCBS TV-2 Los Angeles – Consumer Watchdog Shows How Californians Are Getting Ripped Off At The Pump

April 9, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p id="eow-description" title="">California drivers paid $1 billion extra at the pump in March, when compared to the national average gas price charged to U.S. drivers, according to an analysis of the latest government data by Consumer Watchdog.</p> <div id="watch-description-extras"> <ul class="watch-extras-section"> </ul> </div>

KTTV FOX-11 Los Angeles – YouTube Kids App Targets Ads To Kids

April 8, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Consumer Watchdog has joined a coalition of prominent children’s and consumer advocacy groups that filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission today requesting an investigation of Google, charging the company with unfair and deceptive practices in connection with its new YouTube Kids app.</p>

KABC TV-7 Los Angeles – YouTube Kids App Accused of Deceptive, Excessive Advertising To Kids

April 8, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p><span class="field-content">Several consumer groups are expected to file a complaint on Tuesday that asks the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google’s recently released YouTube Kids application, a portal for cartoons and learning shows, arguing that the app mixes ads and programming in ways that are deceptive to children. </span></p>

Annenberg TV News – California Spent $1 Billion More On Gas Than The Entire Country In March

April 8, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

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NBC Bay Area – YouTube Kids App Criticized as Deceiving

April 8, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<script type="text/javascript" charset="UTF-8" src="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/portableplayer/?cmsID=298980431&videoID=wJmmJocm6ErO&origin=nbcbayarea.com&sec=video&subsec=&width=600&height=360"></script> <p> </p> <p>The new YouTube Kids mobile app targets young children with unfair and deceptive advertising and should be investigated, a group of consumer advocates told the Federal Trade Commission in a letter Tuesday. Scott Budman reports.</p>

KCBS TV-2 Los Angeles, CA – Consumer Group Says Oil Refiners Are Price Gouging Californians

March 25, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>“Oil refiners are gouging Californians by keeping the state running on empty so that when refineries go down gasoline prices shoot up,” said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog. “It’s time for the legislature to require that oil refiners keep another week of gasoline inventory on hand to avoid perennial price spikes in the third largest gasoline consuming economy in the world.”</p>

KABC TV-7 Los Angeles, CA – Watchdog Says Californians Have Paid $47 Billion Extra Over 10 Years For Gas

March 24, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Consumer Watchdog's new report, “Price Spiked: How Oil Refiners Gouge Californians On Their Gasoline and What It Costs,” showed that Californians paid $550 million extra for their gasoline in February compared to drivers nationwide by calculating the difference between US and state prices and allotting for consumption.</p>

KXTV TV-10 ABC Sacramento, CA – Californians Being Gouged Extra At the Gas Pump

March 24, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p id="eow-description">At a California State Senate hearing on February gasoline price spikes, Consumer Watchdog issued a report finding that California oil refiners have about half as much gasoline on hand than the rest of America, creating a volatile market that leads to gasoline price spikes.</p> <div id="watch-description-extras"> <ul class="watch-extras-section"> </ul> </div>

Jamie Court testifies at the California State Senate – March 24 2015

March 24, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>“Oil refiners are gouging Californians by keeping the state running on empty so that when refineries go down gasoline prices shoot up,” said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog. “It’s time for the legislature to require that oil refiners keep another week of gasoline inventory on hand to avoid perennial price spikes in the third largest gasoline consuming economy in the world.”</p>

KCBS TV-2 Los Angeles – California Strips Blue Shield Of Tax-Exempt Status

March 19, 2015  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p>State officials have stripped Blue Shield of California of its tax-exempt status, an exemption the nonprofit health insurer has held since its founding in 1939. The decision could put Blue Shield on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in state taxes each year.</p>

KPCC 89.3 FM Southern California Public Radio – Jamie Court On Collapse of Prime Deal to Buy Daughters of Charity Hospitals

March 13, 2015  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p>Consumer Watchdog warned that a failure of the deal by Prime Healthcare to purchase DCHS, would force hospitals including St. Francis, into bankruptcy and closure: “by rejecting this bid because of this highly-charged political debate, an underserved community and its hospital will be caught in the crosshairs."</p>