January 22, 2012
Despite crossing both cityscapes and farmland, Spain’s high-speed rail program stirred no major opposition, going to great lengths to minimize its impact on surrounding land.
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December 25, 2011
Business interests were the top bill-killers inside California's Capitol during Gov. Jerry Brown's first year back in office, as concerns about the state's weak economy cut into labor's newfound clout.
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November 21, 2011
In a push to expand across California without interference, Wal-Mart is increasingly taking advantage of the state’s initiative system to threaten elected officials with costly special elections and to avoid environmental lawsuits.
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April 6, 2012
On Oct. 13, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided Northstone Organics, a medical marijuana co-op farm in Mendocino County.
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October 27, 2011
The U.S. Department of Energy has moved ahead with $4.5 billion in new loans for clean energy projects in California – despite the recent bankruptcy of Silicon Valley-based Solyndra. The new loans all were approved last month during the final days of a federal program created with stimulus money. Reporter Dan Goldstein has the story.
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June 24, 2011
Public records show that the state High-Speed Rail Authority, the agency spearheading the bullet train, is plunging forward despite repeated warnings that it may be tens of billions of dollars short of the money needed to build and operate the system.
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October 9, 2010
When Jerry Brown was governor three decades ago, his staff was instructed to give special access to dozens of confidants, political insiders and supporters whose requests, concerns and recommendations were supposed to be routed straight to Brown, administrative records show.
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July 2, 2010
Bored and unsupervised, five highly paid electricians working for the city of San Francisco spent years allegedly stealing from taxpayers during a remarkable binge that involved sex parties with prostitutes, moonlighting on city time and fraudulent billing to pay for their suburban lifestyles.
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April 10, 2010
Meg Whitman touts her experience at eBay, the online auction house that made her rich, but her career and personal fortune are entwined with another major company: Goldman Sachs, the investment bank at the heart of America’s financial meltdown.
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February 27, 2010
Amid a crippling fiscal crisis, managers throughout California’s government have routinely allowed their employees to amass unused vacation time, enabling hundreds of workers to end their public-service careers with payouts topping $100,000, a California Watch investigation has found.
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January 30, 2010
An Alaska company swung a deal for one of California’s largest stimulus grants — $54 million for work connected to the famed Napa Valley Wine Train tourist attraction.
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January 2, 2010
Is it possible that politicians and their supporters have laundered donations to subvert campaign finance laws?
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