IMPACT: House GOP criticizes White House visitor logs

By Fred Schulte

IMPACT: White House is taken to task by Hill for incomplete visitor logs

Donald Trump's lawsuits could turn off conservatives who embrace tort reform

By Peter H. Stone

Trump and his companies have sued, and been sued, hundreds of times

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… s been waging against Rancho Palos Verdes, a small community on a lovely California peninsula where he developed a golf course in 2002. The town, which has an …"

"… he real estate education that the institution advertises. Tarla Makaeff, a California marketer who filed it, said she spent nearly $60,000 to “Learn from the …"

"… ing more Trump seminars.” The suit, which is pending in federal court in California, seeks damages for violations of consumer protection laws.The school promp …"

Back to school for the billionaires

By Rita Beamish

Business titans find reforming schools much harder than just writing checks

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… rates in Oakland actually fell by 6 percentage points, beating the rest of California’s schools which fell by 9 points. In Houston, graduation rates dropped a …"

"… d poorly in high school -- with reading scores that trailed California by 18 percentage points in 2010. Los Angeles underperformed the rest of Ca …"

"… ia by 18 percentage points in 2010. Los Angeles underperformed the rest of California by 6 percentage points in elementary school math. Both cities, however, mo …"

"… ed from 11 to 50 the number of schools attaining a score of 700 toward the California achievement target of 800. And between 2008 and 2010, Oakland has outpaced …"

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Fed loophole lets lenders keep using college logos to pitch student loans

By Cezary Podkul

Fed loophole lets lenders keep using college logos to pitch student loans

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… sumers from co-branding," said Lauren Asher, president of the institute, a California-based nonprofit policy organization that urges making college more afforda …"

"… they tend to be obscure,” said Nancy Coolidge, a policy analyst for the California school system. “There’s nothing as powerful as a visual symbol, partic …"

Analysis – The ‘Front Group’ hall of shame

By Wendell Potter

Today is the day health insurers and their allies plan to launch their brand new front group the Choice and Competition Coalition.

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… o assure state residents that they are getting any value for what they buy.California, on the other hand, is taking an approach the insurance companies hate. Wh …"

"… e other hand, is taking an approach the insurance companies hate. When the California exchange is up and running in 2014, it will vet the insurers’ benefit pl …"

"… maximum participation, unlike the selective contracting model employed by California.”AHIP spokesman Robert Zirkelbach as saying, “Many stakeholders agree …"

"… any stakeholders want the exchanges to be more like Utah’s and less like California’s. And those stakeholders are the 1,300 health plans AHIP says it repres …"

Insured profits

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Health execs get richer as Americans beg for help to pay bills

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… ndustry.Stan wrote to tell me about RAM’s most recent two expeditions in California.The crowds for the pair of expeditions "were similar to those you saw in W …"

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FDIC slow to pursue failed bank directors, recover tax dollars

By Ben Hallman

With the FDIC struggling to manage huge losses to its insurance fund, critics say the agency should do more to hold executives of failed ban

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… erican community in San Francisco, was closed by the FDIC and the state of California in November 2009, one year after it got a $300 million government bailout …"

"… lawsuit against former officers of 1st Centennial Bank, a failed Southern California bank, have said they plan to use the FDIC’s inaction while the alleged w …"

SEC extracts fines, but not confessions

Federal judge scolds SEC for routinely letting businesses and executives settle civil lawsuits without admitting any guilt....

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"… nd that the company had contributed an additional $2.4 million to settle a California class action proceeding.No reasonable observer of these events, he wrote, …"

Could rupture of aging pipeline ignite nuclear plant's control room?

By Susan Q. Stranahan

Could rupture of aging pipeline ignite nuclear plant's control room?

Coal ash: The hidden story

By Kristen Lombardi

Pat Nees never liked the water at the Moose Lodge. Almost everyone in tiny Colstrip, Montana, drank and dined at Lodge #2190, but the well w

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… ind of federal intervention. The committee chair, Senator Barbara Boxer of California, took aim at the EPA for refusing to set national standards. “Inaction h …"

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