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As Congress returns to begin an intense debate over reshaping the nation's $2.2 trillion health-care system, prominent left-leaning organizations and liberal House…
Apr 21, 2009Washington D.C. -- Consumer Watchdog wrote a letter to U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) urging that he continue to protect patients consistent…
Apr 21, 2009Earlier this month, the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog called for the Justice Department to delay the settlement. The group argued that no…
Apr 20, 2009A consumer watchdog group is howling over a recent appointment by state Sen. Ron Calderon, but for the vast majority of California…
Apr 20, 2009“Why should a drug company be able to advertise one of its products in the best possible light in 25 or 40…
Apr 18, 2009With a May 5 deadline for filing objections to the Google books settlement looming, opposition to and criticism of the settlement continues…
Apr 17, 2009The sale to Farmers, for $1.9 billion, would create the state's biggest auto insurer. Two of Southern California's biggest insurance companies are…
Apr 17, 2009Here's a small but important example of the kind of state consumer protection that the insurance industry and its allies want to…
Apr 17, 2009The Internet Archive has sent a letter to Judge Dennis Chin, the judge overseeing the Google/Authors Guild, AAP case seeking permission to…
Apr 17, 2009Why would anybody trust their private medial records to a service that by its own admission doesn't have all the kinks worked…
Apr 16, 2009Allstate Wants Back the $500 Million Consumers Saved Under California State Insurance Regulation Washington, D.C. -- Consumer advocates observed today that…
Apr 16, 2009Google Chairman Eric Schmidt recently sat down with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and discussed how newspapers can emerge from their…
Apr 15, 2009His email handle was Happy Wally. His happiness came from his wife of 50 years, the joy of his grandchildren, and by…
Apr 15, 2009A nonprofit Orange County research institute's efforts to promote research with human neural stem cells has effectively been blocked by a stem…
Apr 15, 2009SACRAMENTO, CA -- The appointment of a former State Farm lawyer to a California legislative panel has drawn criticism from one of…
Apr 15, 2009According to this story in the Massachusetts-based Eagle-Tribune the health insurance industry lobbying group, America's Health Insurance Plans, is trying to get…
Apr 14, 2009In a related development at the California AARB hearings, it was revealed that the California Energy Commissions Vice-Chair and Presiding member, James…
Apr 14, 2009I read the news today, oh boy. Start with Goldman Sachs' first quarter profit of $1.8 billion, about twice what "analysts" thought…
Apr 13, 2009