April 15, 2013
Broken Shield investigation that exposed patient abuse at state developmental centers a top contender for journalism's highest honor.
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April 10, 2013
Legal experts and residents question the widespread practice of assigning former police officers to examine officer-involved shootings.
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March 18, 2013
California's community college districts spend tens of millions of dollars on administrative positions that could be consolidated or shared by districts a short drive away, even as budget shortfalls have forced reductions in core academic functions.
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March 12, 2013
Any commercial fisherman used to be able to fish in U.S. seas. Not anymore. Today, the right to fish belongs to companies and private individuals under a system called "catch shares."
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March 6, 2013
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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February 27, 2013
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
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 11, 2013
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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January 31, 2013
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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January 23, 2013
Two dozen of the largest school districts on the state’s financial watch list have raised their superintendents’ salaries since 2009.
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June 4, 2012
Elite donors gave nearly five times as much to winning candidates as they did to losers. And about 55 percent of every dollar they contributed aided a winning initiative campaign.
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August 15, 2012
Many young men and women who became addicted to pills like OxyContin are now IV heroin users, experts say
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June 4, 2012
St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church, where some former students have accused a teacher of physical abuse, has inflated its enrollment and gained thousands in extra federal dollars.
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July 23, 2011
How a major California hospital chain boosts its bottom line through aggressive billing practices.
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December 21, 2012
An 18-month California Watch investigation exposed the failure of a police force to protect developmental center patients – the state’s most vulnerable residents.
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