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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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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November 30, 2012
Wal-Mart advertises low prices, but at what cost? Workers at a Southern California warehouse that supplies the retail giant say they were cheated out of wages. Now they want to sue Wal-Mart for back pay and damages.
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November 20, 2012
A Southern California federal judge ruled in favor of companies in which he owned stock, despite measures to prevent such conflicts of interest.
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November 15, 2012
Once a social justice leader, the Vanguard Public Foundation crumbled under lavish spending and fraud; its demise has sent shudders through the nonprofit world.
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October 5, 2012
A new tactic in debt collection catches California homeowners off guard: foreclosure threats for unsecured loans.
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September 6, 2012
The rise and fall of a medical marijuana entrepreneur offers a look at behind-the-scenes city politics and business dealings that fueled the pot boom in Oakland.
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August 9, 2012
Construction giant Tutor-Saliba is a top candidate for a new subway station. But some of its past projects have gone over budget and been the subject of expensive legal battles.
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July 17, 2012
California has funded less than half of the $800 million required, eight years after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit against the state.
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July 13, 2012
Health care districts in California oversee billions of dollars in public and private funds with scant outside oversight – and conflicts of interest result.
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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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May 31, 2012
As banks resist, a $2 billion mortgage relief program has distributed just 5 percent of its fund in more than two years.
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May 23, 2012
Homeowners thought their mortgage debt was erased after banks and lending companies took their houses – until Heritage Pacific stepped in.
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May 3, 2012
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.
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