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Donating underwriters secure contracts

Leading financial firms over the past five years have donated $1.8 million to successful school bond measures in California. In almost every instance, school district officials hired those same underwriters to sell the bonds for a profit. + read more
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Health & Welfare

Stent placements violate state regulations

For years Desert Valley Hospital in San Bernardino County has performed numerous stent procedures without a full license to do so. State inspectors have cited the hospital repeatedly. + read more
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Health & Welfare

Neglected communities lack basic public services

California’s low-income unincorporated communities lack many public services, like sewer systems and clean water. + read more
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Public Safety

Free military surplus gear a boon to local law agencies

A Pentagon equipment giveaway worth an estimated $2.8 billion has bolstered police, sheriff’s and fire departments across the country over the past two decades. + read more
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Public Safety

Basic police work ignored in suspicious death

Dead at 50 with a severely broken neck, Van Ingraham's injuries looked suspicious. But police took the word of a blind man over three medical experts. + read more
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Money & Politics
May 16, 2012, 12:05 AM
School officials challenged by post-redevelopment process

With billions of dollars at stake, school district representatives charged with overseeing the shutdown of about 400 redevelopment agencies may be underprepared.

Seven-member local oversight boards consisting of representatives from K-14 districts, the county, the city and special...

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K–12
May 16, 2012 | 12:05 AM

Calif. schools employing fewer nurses, librarians

California is issuing fewer credentials for public school service positions such as librarians, school nurses and administrators, and its schools are...
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Public Safety
May 15, 2012 | 6:05 AM

Issa blasts costly airport-security machines languishing in storage

An estimated $184 million worth of security-screening equipment purchased by the federal government is gathering dust in storage rather than keeping...
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Health & Welfare
May 15, 2012 | 12:05 AM

Advocates fear patient care will suffer under state budget cuts

Gov. Jerry Brown announced a state budget yesterday that relies on hospitals and nursing homes to achieve nearly $400 million in savings ...
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Higher Ed
May 14, 2012 | 12:05 AM

CSU Long Beach spends student MBA fees on professor pay

Officials at CSU Long Beach spent nearly $200,000 on extra pay for some business school faculty, tapping student fees that were supposed to be spent...
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Money & Politics
May 14, 2012 | 12:05 AM

Critics struggle to end 'pay to play' in school bonds

Critics of the practice in which financial firms help pass school bonds that they profit from are continuing to push for reforms, but so far have...
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Health & Welfare
May 14, 2012 | 12:05 AM

Rural towns devise unique plan to solve water problems

For a good part of its rich history, residents of unincorporated Allensworth, the first African American colony west of the Mississippi, have gone...
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May 7, 2012 | 12:05 AM
California Watch debuts Spanish-language children’s video
It’s a fact. We serve a multilingual state. The issues we cover at California Watch do not know language boundaries, and our efforts to engage community members around a story should not either. In an ideal world, every California Watch article would be available in multiple languages. As it...
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April 16, 2012 | 4:36 PM
California Watch staff named Pulitzer finalists
The staff of California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting was named today as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the local reporting category for exposing regulatory breakdowns in the way seismic safety standards are met at public schools. The local reporting prize went to Sara...
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April 9, 2012 | 12:05 AM
California Watch introduces children’s section
Gather 'round, Junior Watchdogs! This month, California Watch debuts a section of our website dedicated exclusively to children. As a rule, we want to reach the Californians most affected by any given matter and equip them with the knowledge they need to better understand and address the issue...
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