Earlier this month, Sutter Health agreed to settle allegations that it was overcharging the federal government for treatment of certain Medicare patients. Sutter Health is a nonprofit organization that runs several medical foundations and hospitals and it is based in Sacramento. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Sutter Health agreed to pay $30 million. […]

It turns out that there has been an increase in the number of porch pirates that have plagued online shoppers across the United States. In 2017, the home security company Ring conducted a survey that revealed that 20 percent of people had reported front porch theft. Now, a nationwide packaging supply company called U.S. Packaging […]

It turns out that some parts of California could have dangerous drinking water and any people may not even know this. As of May 2018, the California Water Resources Control Board’s records show that over 266 water suppliers were not in compliance with drinking water standards. Unfortunately, most of the violations were in the rural […]

The California Department of Motor Vehicles is having more issues as it tries to cut down on long customer wait times. Last fall, the DMV tried to cut down on the wait times at DMV offices by sending license renewal notices much earlier than usual, but the move backfired. Renewal notices were sent out by […]

In 2001, Los Angeles voters approved a controversial retirement program that pays Los Angeles police and firefighters their salaries and pensions simultaneously at the end of their careers that was promised to be “cost neutral.” However, a study earlier last year found that more than 1,200 participants who entered the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) […]

The governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, is being heavily criticized after a photo has surfaced that shows him and another person in racist costumes. The photo is on his page of his 1984  medical school yearbook and it shows one person wearing blackface and the other person wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, […]

Some shocking news if you are a user of the Weather Channel app, the app may have been secretly mining your data. Earlier this month, a lawsuit was filed by the city of Los Angeles against the Weather Company, the business behind the app that is owned by IBM, which accuses it of manipulating users […]

Last month, the Sacramento Bee submitted a records request for written communications to or from California Secretary of State Alex Padilla and his chief of staff regarding a batch of around 1,500 registration errors. Padilla’s office responded to the request with 268 pages of material, but half the pages were newsletters Padilla received from news […]

Last month, the city of Los Angeles revealed that Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Los Angeles Police Department security detail has cost nearly $450,000 since 2015 as Garcetti visited other parts of the United States and foreign countries. The figures were revealed due to a lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Times, which is seeking to determine […]

Last month, the CalPERS Board of Administration awarded Marcie Frost, the chief executive of CalPERS, a four percent raise and an $84,873 bonus. The raise increases Frost’s base pay to $330,720. The raise and bonus also come a month after Naked Capitalism, a financial blog, reported that a consultant-prepared report in Frost’s job application included […]