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How to give wisely and not get suckered this holiday season
Giving Tuesday is a global day of charitable giving that takes place the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Giving Tuesday is nearly upon us! Plaintive pitches and open palms...
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Calling all elves! Make a family’s holiday season brighter this year
Santa Claus has a busy schedule visiting communities all over the world over the next month. (File photo by Michael Goulding, Contributing Photographer) “Dear Santa, I love you,” begins Armik’s letter...
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Middle or upper income? Brace for higher electric bills
The sun sets behind a row of electric towers in Fresno County on Sept. 6, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local People, the pain is real. If you’re one of the 12 million-plus or...
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Scores of mentally ill people referred for CARE services in program’s first 2...
Fears that thousands of homeless Californians would be swiftly swept into unwanted treatment, violating their civil rights, haven’t materialized — yet. Two months into the Golden State’s “paradigm...
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A romp through ex-Trump attorney John Eastman’s Hail Mary pass to save law...
“Orwellian,” attorneys for John Eastman said of the state bar’s case against him. “(T)he government has spoken, and if you disagree, then you must be lying. Two plus two equals five, after all, and if...
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Murder charge refiled in death of severely disabled girl in Riverside County
The agony that must have accompanied the final hours of Diane “Princess” Ramirez’s short life clearly haunted the prosecutors. Diane Ramírez, courtesy Ángel Cadena Ramirez. After a judge tossed out the...
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Why does it cost some $3 million to fix up one Crystal Cove cottage?
Crystal Cove cottage #11, shown in Newport Beach on Tuesday, October 16, 2018, is one of the north beach cottages that will be part of the second phase of restoration. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange...
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‘Sober living homes were little more than drug dens,’ lawsuit says
Dear Gov. Newsom: Thanks for the new laws. Thanks for the new inspectors. Thanks, I guess, for trying, even a little. But — and isn’t there always a but? — it’s not working. And it’s maddening that the...
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What’s behind California’s skyrocketing spending and $68 billion deficit?
Is California on a bender? The state’s per-capita spending has more than tripled over the past 50 years, even when adjusted for inflation, according to state data (crunched by yours truly). Its...
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Top paid California non-profit CEO made $35.5 million; many others also get...
Before everyone gets their hackles up over how much money California’s top-compensated nonprofit executives earn, some context is in order. The highest-paid chief executive in the for-profit world was...
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Overdrawn checking account? Some banks still haul in millions in overdraft fees
The good news: Those annoying (and expensive) overdraft and “non-sufficient funds” fees from your bank — of some $35 per pop! — have plummeted over the past couple of years, saving consumers some $5.5...
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Former Chapman law dean John Eastman pushes for big money to help defense
Booking photo of John Eastman in Atlanta in August (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via AP) John Eastman bemoaned the “surreal, exhausting battle to defend my integrity” in a recent fundraising email,...
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Electric bill based on income? Forget it, lawmakers of both parties agree
(Photo by Getty Images/iStockphoto) The push to maker higher-income Californians pay higher fixed charges for electricity has sparked class warfare — and a confounding round of ducking, glancing,...
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Nuclear waste canisters must last an entire century, bill proposes
This Google Earth image shows how close the expanded dry storage area for spent nuclear waste is to the shoreline at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (Image courtesy of Google Earth) Will my...
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Addiction treatment violations finally would be public under Assembly bill
Back when we started writing about fraud and abuse and death in California’s private-pay addiction treatment centers in 2017, we had to wait months for copies of inspection reports and violations from...
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King tides, groundwater rise: Threats to nuclear waste at San Onofre?
Todd Moore of Costa Mesa checks out the rain-eroded road leading to San Onofre State Beach on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Gary Headrick walked the soggy...
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Judge: Former Chapman Law dean John Eastman, ex-Trump lawyer, should be...
John Eastman (left) and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Jan. 6, 2021 (JACQUELYN MARTIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS) When he spread wild untruths about the 2020 election and tried to stretch the law like...
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Concerns about San Onofre are real, but experts debate level of risk
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in 2019. (File Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG) Let’s all agree that storing 3.6 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste on a bluff...
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Why do so few in Southern California get updated COVID vaccinations?
The buds are blooming, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway — and those spring COVID vaccines are rolling out yet again. This spring, the COVID booster is aimed at folks 65 and older and...
View ArticleNearly half high school graduates don’t qualify to apply to a California...
Before a graduating high school senior can even consider going to a four-year school in either the California State or University of California systems, he or she must take some specific classes....
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