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Breakfast Blend: How Retailers Game Amazon Customers with Fake, Paid-For Reviews
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. For $2 a Star, a Retailer Gets 5-Star Reviews (New York Times) New … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: Don't Go in the Water off the North Coast Today
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. High surf of 20-25 foot waves expected today; people asked to stay back … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: Feinstein Says Restoring Hetch Hetchy to its Original Splendor Out of the Question
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Occupy protesters block West Coast ports (Los Angeles Times) Lungren, Feinstein spar over … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: 18.6% of Men 25-34 Live w/ Parents; Philip Levine - "Hell, no" to Self Censorship
Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Presidents are bowing out at some Cal State schools (Los Angeles Times) Protesters … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: Bill Due for Federal Support of State's Insolvent Unemployment Insurance Fund
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. California's unemployment insurance fund debt grows (Los Angeles Times) L.A.-based law firm gives … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: "Dirty DUI" Sting Exposes Local Law Entrapping Divorced Men for Profit
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Coming clean on 'dirty DUIs' in Contra Costa County (Los Angeles Times) Submachine … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: Netflix Finds Competition and Cultural Barriers in Latin America; Crunch Time for Catholic Schools
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Toyota, Honda Return to Full Production (Bloomberg) Netflix Tussles With Telefonica, Slim in … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: Is iPad Craze Waning?; FBI's Prison Cellphone Sting Shows Up LA Sheriff
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Blackstone Takes Top Spot Among Busiest Private-Equity Firms (Bloomberg) JPMorgan Differs With JPMorgan … Continue reading
Rachael's Breakfast Blend: Vaguely Organic Strawberries Under Fire; Is Hollywood Bailing on Obama?
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. L.A. Fire Department probes use of trucks in porn shoots (Los Angeles Times) … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: Preschool California Protests Budget Ax Hit to Transitional Kindergarten
Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Parents, teachers protest plan to scrap transitional kindergarten (Los Angeles Times) Will L.A. … Continue reading »