By Jose Navarro, MBA | Financial Controller & Public Policy Analyst | San Diego, CA September 21, 2026 SACRAMENTO — California funds its 115 community colleges to educate students. Last […]
A Decade of Settlements: Why LA County Needs Tort Reform
By Jose Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report | LA County Affairs Los Angeles — Ten years of the county’s own litigation reports tell a story its Board of Supervisors […]
Los Angeles Opens a Second Straight Year Over Budget — Same Departments, Same Overtime
By Jose Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report | California Affairs Los Angeles — The city closed out fiscal year 2025-26 the way it opened fiscal year 2026-27: over budget. […]
Who’s Minding LAHSA? Karen Bass Appointed Half Its Board — and the Fraud Scandal Broke Anyway
By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | LA County | September 18, 2026 LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors this week charged three people in a $12 million fraud scheme running through […]
The Billion-Dollar Payday: How a Private Prison Company Sold San Diego’s Detention Center Back to Taxpayers at Quadruple Its Value
By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | California | September 18, 2026 SAN DIEGO — On July 2, CoreCivic sold the Otay Mesa Detention Center — the 1,994-bed immigration facility it […]
A Nightclub, a Bingo Hall, and the $24 Billion Question: Inside LA’s Homeless Fraud Raids
By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | San Diego | September 16, 2026 Federal agents in Kevlar vests descended on a Baldwin Hills home Wednesday morning and led away Michael Young, […]
The Tiki Bar Receipt: What $600,000 in High-Speed Rail Travel Expenses Confirms
By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | San Diego | September 16, 2026 A state inspector general’s investigation released this week found that the California High-Speed Rail Authority paid nearly $600,000 […]
The Fight to Keep La Jolla Cove Open
Residents and swimmers say the Cove doesn’t need to close — it needs the wildlife plan the city already approved to actually be enforced. By Jose E. Navarro | San […]
California’s ‘Emergency’ Loophole Is Letting HOA Boards Skip the Vote — and the Bill Lands Hardest on Seniors
A San Clemente board just charged 198 households $26,000 apiece without a vote. The law that let it happen needs to close. By Jose E. Navarro | Orange County Affairs […]
The After-Action Report Grades LA County’s Fire Recovery. It Never Asks About the Claims Desk.
A 180-page review finds the county had no formal repopulation plan for the Eaton and Palisades fires. This outlet’s reporting all year says the harder bottleneck sits with insurers, not […]