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FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, talks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Long before it opened its doors to the public last fall, California's health insurance exchange awarded a small contract to a business consultant, Leesa Tori, for her advice on designing a program to sell insurance to small companies The industry veteran was a friend and former co-worker of Peter Lee, the exchange's top executive. The seemingly minor deal would mark the beginning of a lucrative and far-reaching partnership between the new state agency and the boutique consulting company Tori formed last year, just as national health care reform took root across the U.S. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Probe sought in California no-bid health contracts

Michael Blood · October 14, 2014 12:07 am

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, talks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Long before it opened its doors to the public last fall, California's health insurance exchange awarded a small contract to a business consultant, Leesa Tori, for her advice on designing a program to sell insurance to small companies The industry veteran was a friend and former co-worker of Peter Lee, the exchange's top executive. The seemingly minor deal would mark the beginning of a lucrative and far-reaching partnership between the new state agency and the boutique consulting company Tori formed last year, just as national health care reform took root across the U.S. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

AP Exclusive: California gives no-bid health pacts

Michael Blood · October 13, 2014 1:09 am

Inspector faults regulator on nuke plant review

Michael Blood · October 8, 2014 12:12 am

Vice President Joe Biden joins Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti during a roundtable discussion with business leaders about the importance of raising the minimum wage in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. Biden is on a six-city swing that includes stops in Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington state. (AP PhotoNick Ut)

Joe Biden pushes minimum wage in Los Angeles

Michael Blood · October 7, 2014 8:08 pm

Initiative seeks to raise medical malpractice cap

Initiative seeks to raise medical malpractice cap

Michael Blood · October 4, 2014 8:29 pm

Members of Food & Water Watch and the Southern California Watershed Alliance stage a protest outside the home of California billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick against Proposition 1 in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. At the protest, Food & Water Watch and the Southern California Watershed Alliance warned that water transfers would benefit corporate farming interests. The Resnicks own one of largest producers of mandarin oranges, pistachios and pomegranates in the country. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Environmentalists divided over water projects

Michael Blood · October 3, 2014 12:37 am

Field Poll: Support slipping for health measures

Field Poll: Support slipping for health measures

Michael Blood · September 12, 2014 1:13 am

Regulators reject call for nuke plant shutdown

Regulators reject call for nuke plant shutdown

Michael Blood · September 11, 2014 8:28 am

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010, file photo, a massive fire following a pipeline explosion roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. A proposed utility fine that would create a nearly $1 billion windfall for the state of California has set up a regulatory tussle over how the state punishes corporate wrongdoing and who should benefit from the record-sized penalty. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Energy and Environment

California in tussle over record utility fine

Michael Blood · September 5, 2014 11:16 pm

Kashkari assails Brown on plight of poor students

Kashkari assails Brown on plight of poor students

Michael Blood · July 11, 2014 11:11 pm

What Hillary Clinton really wants? Being a grandma

Michael Blood · June 20, 2014 5:21 am

Thousands of mail-in ballots too late to count

Thousands of mail-in ballots too late to count

Michael Blood · June 17, 2014 12:11 am