An audit released in October by the Los Angeles City Controller’s office recommended that some homeless projects be reevaluated to see if their budgets can be decreased so that less of the city’s $1.2 billion homeless housing bond is used. Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin found that over 1,000 units of housing approved for […]

In 2004, voters passed the Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63) to help counties pay for the treatment of the mentally ill by taxing high-income residents. The proposition has generated billions of dollars to the counties across the state, but much of it has remained unspent. According to the Los Angeles Times, $1.6 billion was […]

In August, Best Buy acquired GreatCall for $800 million in cash in an effort to sell more health and wellness products. GreatCall is a San Diego based company that provides mobile phone and connected health services to seniors. This is the second time in the last 14 months that GreatCall has changed ownership. Best Buy […]

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra accused Curacao, a Southern California electronics retailer that caters to Latinos, of various unlawful business practices in a civil lawsuit filed last month. Becerra alleged that Curacao’s practices harmed consumers and in some cases resulted in shoppers paying substantially more for products and services than advertised. According to the suit, […]