January 27, 2012 | 12:05 AM

For-profit accreditor seeks more accurate job placement data

The accreditor that oversees several campuses owned by for-profit college company Career Education Corp. is demanding that it submit more accurate...
January 27, 2012 | 12:05 AM

Billionaire insurance exec backs initiative to change rate rules

UPDATE, Jan. 27, 2011: Mercury Insurance provided this response to questions about its record. The 90-year-old billionaire chairman of Mercury...
January 27, 2012 | 12:05 AM

US guidelines on food marketing to kids stalls

According to a recent analysis of medical costs in the research journal Obesity, California spends an estimated $15.2 billion on obesity-related...
January 26, 2012 | 12:05 AM

Pentagon taps students to build robots, drones

With an eye toward revolutionizing how defense systems and vehicles are made, the Pentagon has tapped a team of Bay Area-based scientists, engineers...
January 26, 2012 | 12:05 AM

Disclosure of corporate campaign spending sought in Calif. bill

Corporations that donate to political campaigns – including through so-called super PACs that have no contribution limits –...
January 26, 2012 | 12:05 AM

Car emissions may fuel desert forest fires

Nitrogen emissions from car exhaust and industrial sources might be increasing forest fires across the California desert by fueling the spread of...
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January 20, 2012 | 2:15 PM
When California Watch's senior editor Bob Salladay took the train from Sacramento to Oakland on January 19, he didn't think he would be in a place to break news. But it's hard to ignore an Assembly candidate when she is talking loudly on her cell phone in a public space. [View the...
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January 10, 2012 | 5:50 AM
When Fresno Bee business reporter Tim Sheehan boarded a plane for Spain in November, his trip signaled a new chapter of collaboration for a growing group of California news organizations. Sheehan spent eight days abroad, gathering string for a package of stories about Spain's 20-year-old bullet...
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December 16, 2011 | 12:08 AM
Journalists find stories in all sorts of places. I have spent much of my journalism career, both in newsrooms and classrooms, finding stories in data. That’s how I found myself crunching data for California Watch, a nonprofit investigative news operation that is part of the Center for...
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