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The "death panel" has killed something, all right: a benefit that families need and want, namely the right to sit down with…
Aug 14, 2009The Los Angeles City Council's Information Technology and General Services (ITGS) Committee on Tuesday
Aug 13, 2009"Liking" your health insurance policy is roughly the same as liking Bernie Madoff until you tried to withdraw your retirement savings. That's…
Aug 11, 2009A Los Angeles City Council committee on Tuesday takes up a ...
Aug 11, 2009Some interest groups are urging Los Angeles to rethink its plan to implement Google Apps. Last month's breach of a hosted Google…
Aug 10, 2009The light bulb went off in my head today reading NY Times columnist Paul Krugman's description of health reform protests--are these folks…
Aug 7, 2009California's gasoline prices are climbing past $3 per gallon for the second time this summer. And the reason this time is the…
Aug 7, 2009Truth-teller Wendell Potter Asks White House Officials To See Insurance Crisis First-Hand Santa Monica, CA -- In private and public messages to…
Aug 6, 2009United Agricultural Benefit Trust Spotlighted As Model For Healthcare Cooperatives Private insurers can screen out people more at risk for serious illness,…
Aug 6, 2009When health insurance companies or their Congressional sock puppets tell you that competition in the private market will reform health care and…
Aug 5, 2009The head of the health insurance lobby, Karen Ignani, is crying foul about being demonized by Democrats trying to complete health insurance…
Aug 5, 2009If those congressmen who have received money from the health care industry recused themselves from the debate, you could almost hear a…
Aug 5, 2009A proposal to switch Los Angeles city government's email and some other computer applications to a "...
Aug 5, 2009The Federal Trade Commission says it will keep investigating the board memberships of Apple and Google despite Google CEO Eric Schmidt's withdrawal…
Aug 5, 2009I introduced him in San Francisco at the Civil Justice Foundation last week as a man who could change the direction of…
Aug 4, 2009If Apple and Google were hoping that a Schmidt-ectomy would satisfy the FTC’s concerns over their board-level connections, they were wrong. While…
Aug 4, 2009Calls for Genentech Inc.chairman Arthur Levinson to quit either the board of Apple Inc. or the board of Google Inc. are increasing,…
Aug 4, 2009John Simpson at the Consumer Watchdog, a non-profit organisation, has applauded Mr. Schmidt's move but at the same time criticised the "clubby…
Aug 4, 2009