March 6, 2013, 12:05 AM
Contracting out bus and train services has grown dramatically in California in the past decade, but Fairfield officials have fined MV Transportation 295 times over two years for poor performance.
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March 4, 2013, 11:49 AM
Southern California’s Mount Wilson is a lonesome, hostile peak – prone to sudden rock falls, sometimes ringed by wildfire – that nevertheless has attracted some of the greatest minds in modern science. Today, Mount Wilson is the site of a more terrestrial but no less...
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February 27, 2013, 12:05 AM
Four of the state’s 24 largest independent municipal retirement systems intend to send up to five board members each to a conference in Waikiki, a California Watch survey has found.
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February 21, 2013, 12:05 AM
More than 32,000 California school employees are teaching classes without specialized training. The problem is greater at low-performing schools, where students are overwhelmingly low-income and Latino.
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February 21, 2013, 12:05 AM
The way the state calculates the rate of teachers with improper assignments obscures the magnitude of the problem.
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February 19, 2013, 10:07 AM
LONG BEACH – Jandella Faulkner crouches beside a table of busy third-graders in Jennifer Larsen’s class at Edison Elementary School. The students have pencils in hand, outlines spread around them, and a story about penguins and otters in progress. Faulkner stands to call across the...
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February 18, 2013, 12:05 AM
We are proud to write today that the Center for Investigative Reporting’s California Watch has won the George Polk Award for our series exposing flaws in the way a special state police force handles crimes against the developmentally disabled. It is the second consecutive year that...
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February 11, 2013, 3:15 AM
The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden left the military with no pension and no protection for himself or his family.
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February 6, 2013, 6:05 AM
At a Jan. 30 community forum on the future of the Sonoma Developmental Center, a few themes consistently surfaced in the conversation with residents, families and workers at the board-and-care facility for the developmentally disabled. The Sonoma center has come under fire after an investigation by...
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February 6, 2013, 12:05 AM
The Prime Healthcare Services hospital chain has acknowledged it is the target of two federal investigations: a U.S. Justice Department probe of its Medicare billings and an inquiry into alleged violations of patient confidentiality laws. The San Bernardino County-based company disclosed the...
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February 6, 2013, 12:05 AM
On Jan. 2, Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco, Texas, was bought by a nonprofit foundation associated with Prime Healthcare Services, a fast-growing California-based hospital chain that is under federal investigation for aggressive Medicare billings. Soon after, Dr. Prem Reddy, Prime’s...
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February 4, 2013, 9:05 AM
National Green Week is upon us, offering an opportunity to explore the ways we can make our communities more environmentally friendly and sustainable. With that in mind, we're featuring some great green-themed videos on The I Files, an investigative YouTube channel curated by our parent...
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January 31, 2013, 11:09 AM
SONOMA – California’s largest full-time care center for the severely disabled needs more staff and accountability to correct major internal breakdowns that led to dozens of cases of alleged patient abuse, staff members said Wednesday at a public forum. The Sonoma Developmental...
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January 31, 2013, 7:32 AM
Many cash-strapped California school districts have found a way to fund new, multimillion-dollar projects.
And they don’t have to make payments right away.
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January 31, 2013, 7:30 AM
Hundreds of California school districts have turned to a controversial form of borrowing called capital appreciation bonds, with payments not due for decades and interest costs as high as 23 times the amount borrowed.
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