Stands for You

The name of the business is Great American Mini Storage in Palm Desert. But, Mike and Ellen Stutz say the business is not so great. “This company is not responding in anyway to something I think they’re totally responsible for,” said Stutz.  Now retired, Stutz is the former General Manager of Gulf California Broadcast, the

Update:  After our story aired last Tuesday, Tesla sent a tech to the home the following day, and then last Friday, sent out a crew of 8 technicians who installed new solar panels and a new “inverter box” at the Smiths’ home.      Shelley Smith responded to Tesla’s response.  “I hope that Tesla steps it up

Patrick Charlson looks at the empty space on the side of his home, where he wanted a water filtration system installed back in November. He says he paid $1,801 to Ron Woodmen of Wood Men Construction, who lives two doors up the street from Charlson on Valley View Court. “I’d like to see him in

At the Valley Sanitary District in Indio, they collect, treat, and re-use wastewater. But, a nine-year employee at the agency says there is something else that “doesn’t smell quite right”. “Taxpayers are being cheated out of pay they’re paying this General Manager,” said Paul Kemp, a Maintenance Technician  Kemp is asking why, the district’s General

Jennifer Zamora is talking about the crash that killed her husband Javier, an army veteran who served a tour of duty in Iraq. Their daughter Maxine, 15 at the time, was also in the car, and sustained only a scrape, but was left emotionally scarred. “It is hard to move forward, it is hard to

Sixty-eight-year-old Linda Barnes owns a mobile home in the “Palm View Estates” in Desert Hot Springs. She says her “typical” water bill usually runs somewhere between $20 to $35 a month. “They don’t want to listen to their customers,” said Barnes, while talking about the Mission Springs Water District.  Spikes in her bill over the

La Quinta resident Paulina Kallimanis says Fairway Golf Carts in Palm Desert, took possession of her two golf carts last November, on a “handshake agreement” to sell the carts on consignment.      She returned to the business in February, only to find that owner Jason Stella, had gone out of business, with her two carts

Bill Royce, a tenant at the Park David Senior Apartments in Cathedral City, an affordable housing complex, is among those who say their rent is not so affordable anymore. “Many people who live here say they don’t know what they’re going to do, some are already borrowing money from their friends and relatives,” said Royce.