1/4/2026 -  Judicial Concerns:  Shadow Over Justice -- Unraveling California's "Black Robe Mafia" and the path to County Level Reform    AI's potential to Revolutionize Litigation | Precedents for Legal Lobby Corrections after Corruption Exposed | Georgia's "thieves-in-law" problem and correction  

1/4/2026 - Exposed: Predatory Contractors Target Elderly Veteran – Unsigned Deals and one Massively inflated bill   stair lift and tub to shower conversions |  deposits without contracts | email dialogue with DAs and CLSB Registrar on the line didn't affect them |  intro to larger investigation website  

1/4/2026 - Political Foul Play: The Twisted Twosome – Unraveling Monterey County's Hidden Power Play  Monterey County District 2 Supervisor Glenn Church and his Chief of Staff Marilyn Vierra |  email strings filled with deflection and suggestion of ghost writing | seemingly missing business disclosures |  intro to larger investigation website 

Court Consolidation Mini Series - Part 1

1/19/2026  - Court Consolidation Miniseries - Part 1 - Reader’s Guide  (intro  to all 1/19/2026 articles) 

1/19/2026 - 1) The Quiet Power Grab: How Court Consolidation Might Be Shifting Judicial Control from Counties to Statehouses – And Why Blue States Lead the Way   

1/19/2026 -  2) The Missing 18 – Why don't Monterey County’s Elected Judges Appear on the Official Org Chart?

1/19/2026 - 3) Rescued or Silenced? What Happened to the Municipal and Justice Judges After Unification?

1/19/2026 - 4) The 1995 Opinion That Erased Local Ties: How Two CA Attorneys Overrode 120 Years of Law Without a Trial

1/19/2026 - 5) Timeline of Shadows: California's Court Consolidation – Efficiency Drive or Cover for a Real Estate "Hoax"?

1/19/2026 - 6) Beneficiaries of the Bench: Who Wins When Courts Consolidate – And What Do Counties Lose?

1/19/2026 - 7) The Judicial Throttle: How California's Court Reforms Let the System "Adjust" Flows – For Better or Worse?

Court Consolidation Mini Series - Part 2

1/20/2026 - Court Consolidation Mini-series - Part 2 - Reader's Guide 

1/20/2026 - 1) Bailiffs – The Last Local Eyes in the Courtroom: Can They Stop What They See?

1/20/2026 - 2) From County Clerks to State Gatekeepers: How Unification Changed Who Controls Your Court Records – And Why It Matters

1/20/2026 - 3) Why Half of Your Court's Cases Are Civil Lawsuits: The Overload Judges Face – And the Fraud They Might Miss

1/20/2026 -  4) From Township Watchdogs to Forgotten Footnote: The Roll-Up of California's Justice of the Peace Courts

1/20/2026 - 5) From Books to Bars: California's Budget Pivot from Education to Prisons – And the Skyrocketing Cost Per Inmate Mystery

1/20/2026 -  6) California's Education Funding Maze: From State Coffers to Obscene Teacher Salaries – And the Prisons Parallel

1/20/2026 - 7) California's Court Cost Explosion: From $2 Billion to $5.5 Billion in 25 Years – What Happened After Unification?

Small Claims Mini Series 

1/21/2026 - Small Claims Mini-series - Reader's Guide

1/21/2026 - 1) The Illusion of Small Claims Justice: California's Hidden Court Traps

1/21/2026 -  2) The Procedural Minefield: Hidden Rules That Rig Small Claims Court

1/21/2026 -  3) When Defendants Know the System: Abuse, Appeals, and 'Crime Pays'

1/21/2026 -  4) The History of Small Claims : 1920's to Present 

1/21/2026 -  5)  The Small Claims Court Collapse:  How California's Court Consolidation Destroyed Small Claims

1/21/2026 - 6) Reforming Small Claims: Restoring Equity and Access in California

1/21/2026 - 7) Case Study 1: Veterinary Fraud and the Malpractice Misdirection – How Small Claims Protected a Veterinarian who concealed hair mineral analysis as the proper test for accumulated heavy metals and feline seizures

1/21/2026 -  8) Case Study 2: Professional Engineer Fraud:  the Contract That Wasn’t Enforced

1/21/2026 - 9) Case Study 3: Pre-Sale and Post-Sale Inspector Fraud – How Oversight Boards and Courts Shielded It All