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BY BRIAN HEWS • June 20, 2020 Hews Media Group has obtained a letter from Metropolitan Water District of Southern California General Manager Jeffrey Kightlinger addressed to California State Senator…
Central Basin Director Robert “Bob” Apodaca has been accused of sexual harassment; in 2013, he settled another harassment case for $670,000. BY BRIAN HEWS • [email protected] Hews Media Group-Los…
BY BRIAN HEWS Hews Media Group-Los Cerritos Community News has exclusively learned that embattled Central Basin Water Director and State Senate District 33 candidate Leticia Vasquez has been removed from…
By Brian Hews Embattled Central Basin Water Board (CB) Member Leticia Vasquez’ second go-round at becoming a member of the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) Board of Directors was met with…
By Brian Hews Controversial Central Basin Municipal Water District Director Leticia Vasquez has been officially removed as the agencies representative to the Metropolitan Water District Board of Directors after a…
Fountain Valley, CA (January 18, 2023) – The Municipal Water District of Orange County (MWDOC) Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Director Karl Seckel to the Metropolitan Water…
May 11, 2026 LCCN Staff Report Los Cerritos Community News has earned a nomination for Best Investigative Reporting from the Los Angeles Press Club for its five-part investigative series “High…
By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X January 16, 2026 Six weeks ago, Los Cerritos Community News launched High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags, a multi-part investigative series revealing that…
By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X January 12, 2026 January 12, 2025 Five weeks ago, Los Cerritos Community News launched High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags, a multi-part investigative…
By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 29, 2025 Over the past two weeks, Los Cerritos Community News has published three installments of High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags,…
By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 19, 2025 Two weeks ago, Los Cerritos Community News launched High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags, a multi-part investigative series revealing that for…
By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 15, 2025 Last week, Los Cerritos Community News revealed that for more than four years, Central Basin Director Juan Garza has quietly…
Nem Ochoa and Joanna Moreno should have left the board on Feb. 28, 2025, instead they remain loyal cronies to their leader, Director Juan Garza. By Brian Hews In March,…
November 13, 2024 By Brian Hews It was well-known that Martha Camacho Rodriguez would lose her Central Basin Water District 1 seat in last Tuesday’s election so the new CB…
January 26, 2022 District continues advancing its goal of financial stability. The Central Basin Municipal Water District has announced it has received an A3 rating by Moody’s Investors Service…
Central Basin Director Leticia Vasquez-Wilson in front of a Downey water well, the video is at the end of the story. BY BRIAN HEWS • April 5, 2021 In…
This past Monday, the Assembly Committee for Local Government, chaired by Sen. Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Davis), held a hearing in Sacramento – during the height of the George Floyd…
BY BRIAN HEWS • May 27, 2020 Hews Media Group has learned that Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia is co-sponsoring a bill that would place Central Basin Municipal Water District, a public…
BY BRIAN HEWS • [email protected] Back in 2016, current California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia proposed AB 1794, “to increase accountability in a climate of poor leadership and ethics by creating a…
Commerce, CA – After months of informative workshops and in-depth discussions, the Central Basin Board of Directors voted today to support the California (CA) WaterFix. The vote by the Board…
