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 […]

According to POLITICO, two prominent female Democratic legislators in the #MeToo movement donated a good amount of money to Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia. Assemblywoman Garcia is the subject of an ongoing sexual harassment investigation. The two lawmakers who donated money are Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, chair of the Joint Legislative Subcommittee on Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response, […]

According to an audit released last month, a California DMV data operator slept three hours a day at her desk for three years and despite complaints from her colleagues, the department failed to take disciplinary action. Investigators from the California State Auditor’s office were told by witnesses that the DMV employee consistently slept at her […]

Last month, the U.S. Forest Service announced that it has granted Nestle a new three-year permit to continue operating its bottled water pipeline in the San Bernardino National Forest. The agency stated that the permit has been offered to the company “with measures to improve the watershed’s health” along Strawberry Creek. Nestle’s special use permit […]

An investigation by the state attorney general’s office claims that a loan company engaged in illegal debt collection practices, which will lead to almost 35,000 former Corinthian College students in California to  have the remainder of their private loan balances forgiven and some may receive payment refunds. Last month, state Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra claimed […]

Monterey County sheriff’s deputies discovered a field filled with thousands of opium poppies, which was enough to make $45,000 worth of heroin. According to officials, the field contained 27,000 plants and an additional 16,500 poppies that had already been harvested. Authorities eradicated the poppies, which combined together could make about 13 pounds of raw opium. […]

By: Renee Pinel A recent opinion article on glyphosate is a classic example of the environmental community’s awkward relationship with science and facts (“Don’t let EPA and Monsanto hide the truth on Roundup,” Viewpoints, Jan. 17). When it comes to climate change, the enviros are all in. But for everything else, science apparently doesn’t matter. […]

Last month, the State Water Resources Control Board notified Nestle Waters North America that an investigation concluded it doesn’t have the proper rights to about three-quarters of the water it withdraws for bottling in San Bernardino National Forest. The report stated, A significant portion of the water currently diverted by Nestle appears to be diverted […]

A bizarre story is coming out of San Diego County, where apparently, a gas station attendant refused to serve Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers a couple weeks ago. According to the Blue Lives Matter website, five officers stopped at a Shell station on San Ysidro Blvd. near Interstate 5 to fill up when the […]

According to an investigative report released earlier this month, officials in the University of California president’s office improperly interfered with a state audit of UC finances, instructed campuses not to “air dirty laundry” in an audit survey, and misled the regents about why they did it. An independent investigation by former state Supreme Court Justice […]