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Proposed Regulations Would Curtail Abusive Behavior By Patent Applicants WASHINGTON, DC -- A coalition of consumer advocacy and public interest groups today…
Jul 29, 2008The California stem cell agency's Standards Working Group hammered out very thorough ethical guidelines to ensure human embryonic stem cell lines derived…
Jul 29, 2008Bill could Alter CIRM's Focus With a $3 billion pot of stem cell research cash in the balance, California legislators want to…
Jul 28, 2008Interested in how the California stem cell agency has so far parceled out $554 million in research grants? The California Institute for…
Jul 28, 2008When California's reform-minded Gov. Hiram Johnson launched the referendum process in 1911, his idea was to give common citizens more of a…
Jul 28, 2008The insurance industry is busy telling us that it has teamed up with environmentalists to clean the air by cutting insurance premiums…
Jul 26, 2008Governor Schwarzenegger's attempt to drastically cut wages for hundreds of thousands of state workers until a new budget is approved has drawn…
Jul 26, 200850-Cent Slide Foreseen as Drop in Demand Deflates Crude Oil LITTLE ROCK, AR -- Gasoline prices have fallen nearly 10 cents a…
Jul 25, 2008Wind and Natural Gas Are Priorities on List Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens became one of the world's richest people by drilling…
Jul 25, 2008The Contra Costa Times posed some good questions this week in an editorial about the "pay-as-you-drive" proposal making its way...
Jul 25, 2008SACRAMENTO, CA -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation banning health insurance companies from rewarding employees for rescinding a policyholder's insurance. A.B.…
Jul 24, 2008The annual failure of the legislature to pass a budget on time is about to hit more Californians in the pocketbook. Governor…
Jul 23, 20082nd Quarter Report Shows Industry Still Buying Its Own Stock, Not Investing Record Profits in New Oil or Renewables, Says Consumer Watchdog;…
Jul 23, 2008There is a new concept for automobile insurance being driven through our state Legislature with Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner at the wheel.…
Jul 23, 2008Looking at recent top hires at the California stem cell agency, I'd been focusing on the fat salaries being paid to the…
Jul 22, 2008Robert Klein II, who chairs the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, continues to drag down the $3 billion stem cell research program…
Jul 20, 2008Two consumer groups yesterday filed an appeal of a U.S. Patent and Trade Office ruling that said the University of Wisconsin's Alumni…
Jul 19, 2008Amid rising costs, sick employees may be left out in the cold. Fighting breast cancer, she lost her job and her insurance…
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