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  • California Forbids U.S. Immigration Agents from Pretending to be Police

    Thursday, July 27, 2017
    ICE agents have reportedly claimed to be police officers to gain consent to enter a person’s home – a tactic that is viewed as unethical, but within the powers granted to the officers. Civil rights groups supported Kalra’s bill, looking to stymie the Trump administration’s promise to use any and all available tools to deport undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes. Many groups fear Trump will expand deportations to include all undocumented immigrants, their families and relatives.   read more
  • Judge Tells Billionaire to Unblock Half Moon Bay Public Beach Access

    Thursday, September 25, 2014
    The judge said he needed to apply to the California Coastal Commission for a permit before making a change in the property’s development. That change doesn’t have to be physical, Judge Mallach said, encouraging public access advocates up and down the coast. It can simply be a change in access to the Pacific Ocean.   read more
  • Los Angeles Register Stops the Presses Five Months after It Started

    Wednesday, September 24, 2014
    The depth of Kushner and Spitz’s pockets was questioned almost from the moment they bought Freedom. Freedom owed $24.7 million to creditors, according to the Los Angeles Times. Those creditors include the Times itself, which delivers the competition’s newspapers. The company immediately began laying off workers.   read more
  • Oakland Flips and Returns $1-Billion Garbage Contract to Texas Company

    Wednesday, September 24, 2014
    The unusual reversal capped a showdown between supporters of a small, local green company that promised to be attentive to community needs, and an out-of-state corporate giant with a reputation for acting like an outsider. “We have set a precedent here tonight that when people don’t get their way and they have enough money, they just do whatever they want to, say whatever they want to and there are no ramifications for what they do,” Councilmember Desley Brooks said.   read more
  • Ride-Sharing Drives S.F. Taxi Industry to the Brink

    Wednesday, September 24, 2014
    A report from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) indicated that taxi drivers picked up 65% fewer fares in July than in March 2012, a drop from 1,424 fares per car per month to 504. The city has about 9,000 cab drivers. Just about every publication is calling it the Uber Effect, in honor of the Bay Area smartphone startup that tapped into the sharing economy in 2012 and rewrote the business model for getting people from here to there.   read more
  • New Law Shields Oil Companies and Their “Trade Secrets” from Public Record Review

    Tuesday, September 23, 2014
    “If you were trying to sabotage California’s open records law, you couldn’t do much better than SB 1300,” Peter Scheer at the First Amendment Coalition said. That “will establish a toxic precedent for other regulated industries and interest groups to keep the public permanently in the dark about their activities,” he warned.   read more
  • Parking Monkey, Ejected from San Francisco, Heads for Santa Monica and Beverly Hills

    Tuesday, September 23, 2014
    “We see no validity whatsoever in any application that would seek to auction off public parking spaces to the highest bidder . . . and we will take whatever steps we can to prevent its use in Santa Monica,” City Manager Rod Gould said. He said the city council would see an ordinance banning the app startup within a couple weeks. So that’s a maybe, right?   read more
  • Truancy, Driven by Low Income and Marked by Racial Divide, Still Costing State Billions

    Tuesday, September 23, 2014
    Much of California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ 2014 report on truancy and absenteeism in elementary schools could easily be swapped with last year’s dismal inaugural annual review. But this year’s report takes note of an enormous racial and economic divide. “Almost 90% of the elementary students with the most severe attendance problems—those who miss 36 days or more of school per year—are estimated to be low-income,” the report released last week says.   read more
  • Federal Judges Toss State Restrictions on Nuclear Waste Site as Too Tough

    Monday, September 22, 2014
    On Friday, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals acknowledged that the Santa Susana Field Laboratory site is “a terrible environmental mess” but upheld a 2011 decision by U.S. District Judge John Walter that strict state cleanup regulations dictated by a 2007 law were trumped by looser federal standards.   read more
  • Drought Is More than Looming Threat to 1,000 without Water in East Porterville

    Monday, September 22, 2014
    Tulare County Office of Emergency Services Manager Andrew Lockman said he began getting a trickle of calls about dry wells in February and by June it was gushing. Last month, county employees and volunteers went door-to-door dropping off 12 gallons of bottled water per person at 185 homes in East Porterville occupied by 960 people. The water was expected to last about three weeks.   read more
  • Attorney in Trouble for Defiantly Photoshopping Herself into Celebrity Shots

    Monday, September 22, 2014
    The lawyer's 50-plus pics of her with celebrities, including President Obama, that reside on the site are photoshopped. She refuses to take them down and that defiance, the photos themselves and some other shenanigans earned the Los Angeles lawyer a recommended six-month suspension of her legal license by State Bar Judge Donald F. Miles.   read more
  • California Helps Wall Street Pocket 44% of Landmark Tobacco Settlement

    Friday, September 19, 2014
    An analysis by ProPublica found that 44% of the $100 billion paid out so far has ended up in the hands of bankers, who provided states with quick cash up front in exchange for securitized bonds sporting healthy interest rates. California, 24 counties and the city of San Diego securitized at least a portion of their winnings for cash now, which was then often spent on projects unrelated to smoking or health care.   read more
  • L.A. Schools Too Busy Rolling Out iPads to Actually Use Them

    Friday, September 19, 2014
    “The early implementation goal was to just get the devices out, that was basically it, just get the devices out, use them as quick as possible,” according to one of the 14 “virtual learning complex facilitators” hired by LAUSD. “There were other goals . . ., they were talked about but they really didn’t get implemented.” Those goals included giving students a leg up on adoption of new Common Core education standards.   read more
  • Lawsuit Filed over Medi-Cal Backlog of 350,000 Stranded Applicants

    Friday, September 19, 2014
    One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Visalia resident Frances Rivera, is suing because her son Robert applied for Medi-Cal in January but died from a pulmonary embolism two months before his application was approved in June. The suit says Robert delayed some treatment while he was uninsured because of the expense.   read more
  • Dangerous Oil-by-Rail Is Here, but Railroad Bridge Inspectors Are Not

    Thursday, September 18, 2014
    The Contra Costa Times reported last week that the two inspectors have not yet been hired, but when they are, they will be the only two inspectors checking out the bridges. They will be assisted in their task by the sole federal inspector assigned to the area―an area that includes 11 states. One of their first jobs will be to find the bridges. There is no comprehensive list.   read more
  • Odor Alert at Salton Sea Is Reminder that Ecological Disaster Looms

    Thursday, September 18, 2014
    The Pacific Institute recently released a report that said failure to save the sea could worsen air quality, destroy valuable ecological habitat, diminish recreational revenue and devalue property―all at a cost to the state of up to $70 billion over 30 years. Although the rotten smell of the decaying lake is nothing to be sniffed at, the report points out that a larger danger of a dry sea bed is from blowing dust in a region with 650,000 people.   read more
  • Thousands Fined for L.A. Freeway Toll Violation after Cops in Gun Battle Divert Traffic

    Thursday, September 18, 2014
    On Friday, those diverted to the "Lexus lane" began receiving fines in the mail for illegally traveling in the fast lane without the requisite transponder and Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) account. Transportation officials said people don’t have to pay the fine, but the only notification of that was a brief note on the Metro ExpressLanes home page:   read more
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