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Bright Yellow Billboard Warned Consumers 'You Can't Trust Mercury Insurance' It's not unusual for businesses to respond aggressively when consumers go online…
Sep 13, 2009Concerns center on possible monopoly, invasion of privacy John M. Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, a California-based non-profit, said a key problem…
Sep 13, 2009Things got busy fast this week in DC as Congress returned from the month-long summer break. Finance committee chair Sen. Max Baucus…
Sep 13, 2009The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine is reviewing a draft update of its strategic plan that calls for it to build relationships…
Sep 11, 2009Beyond lavish meals with fine wines, special interests offer overseas junkets, pro basketball games, weekends at spas and golf resorts and in…
Sep 11, 2009By failing to pass orphan works legislation in previous sessions, Congress practically guaranteed a messy settlement would result from Google's scanning and…
Sep 11, 2009Billboard Giant Broke Contract with Consumer Watchdog After Insurance Executive Complained Santa Monica, CA -- CBS Outdoor must re-install Consumer Watchdog's billboard…
Sep 10, 2009Consumer advocates argue that the public option is an essential component of any reform plan. Insurance companies would have no other incentive…
Sep 10, 2009Assemblyman Mike Duvall bragged about affairs with two women, one said to be a utility's lobbyist. California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown declined…
Sep 10, 2009In Koreatown, a billboard that read "Consumer Watchdog Says: 'You Can't Trust Mercury Insurance'" was dismantled last week after the company complained…
Sep 10, 2009The GOP California lawmaker who was caught on video making sexual boasts is being investigated for a reported tryst with an energy…
Sep 10, 2009Google's proposed book settlement with book authors and publishers, allowing the company to digitize and sell millions of books, makes a "mockery"…
Sep 10, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Congressional committee will review the pros and cons of a class-action settlement that would give Google Inc. the…
Sep 10, 2009Others witnesses are likely to cast a more skeptical eye on the agreement, including John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit that…
Sep 10, 2009The sex scandal du jour--California state Senator Mike Duvall, a "family-values conservative," boasting into an open mike during a hearing about his spanking,…
Sep 9, 2009Consumer Watchdog today demanded that CBS Outdoors restore our "Don't Trust Mercury Insurance" billboard, pulled down, mid-contract, at Mercury Insurance's request.
Sep 9, 2009Consumer advocacy group Consumer Watchdog warned that "if the settlement were approved, it would give Google a default monopoly to books for…
Sep 9, 2009The Senate finance panel chief would create cooperatives as an alternative to the public option. A leading consumer group also took aim…
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