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Los Angeles Times Forcing citizens to buy an expensive, unregulated private product is nothing less than taxation without representation. If California were…
Sep 25, 2007Associated Press "Private companies and organizations have no business sending politicians on luxury vacations, and if they are not vacations but legitimate…
Sep 24, 2007THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (California) Health care companies and trade groups are also big spenders. Since 2003, the health care industry has…
Sep 23, 2007The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, California) If the trips benefit the state's official interests, then the state should pay, said Doug Heller…
Sep 23, 2007Copley News Service Some consumer watchdogs also criticized Linda Adams, the governor's top environmental adviser, and others for taking a spring trip…
Sep 20, 2007Marketplace Morning Report - NPR Radio (American Public Media) Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton laid out her plan for health care yesterday, which…
Sep 18, 2007Marketplace Morning Report - NPR Radio (American Public Media) Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton laid out her plan for health care yesterday, which…
Sep 18, 2007TODAY SHOW - NBC-TV News (7AM EST) AUER: Let me read you something: Jamie Court, who's the president for the Foundation for…
Sep 18, 2007CNN-TV AMERICAN MORNING (7AM EST) ROBERTS: There are some people who are critical still of this idea of mandating this individual mandate.…
Sep 18, 2007She was persona-non-grata in the early 1990s, when the then-first lady's dramatic health-care reform package went down. These days Hillary Clinton is…
Sep 17, 2007TECHNOLOGY DAILY "I can't think of another industry except the insurance industry back in the early 1980s that begs for regulation as…
Sep 17, 2007CBS MarketWatch.com Clinton's plan doesn't go far enough in reining in insurers' power, said Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer…
Sep 17, 2007WIRED Blog John M. Simpson, a sometime critic of CIRM and longtime observer of the agency, said in an interview that he…
Sep 17, 2007The Daily News of Los Angeles "It's a testament to the cell-phone industry's power that the first thing Arnold Schwarzenegger did when…
Sep 16, 2007Australian biologist Alan Trounson will aid California's $3-billion effort to find cures for diseases through human embryonic research.Los Angeles Times "This is…
Sep 15, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle Trounson earned undergraduate degrees from the University of New South Wales in Sydney and his doctorate in embryology from…
Sep 14, 2007California's stem-cell institute may be hunting big fish for a small tankNature Journal (nature.com) And then there's the issue of how the…
Sep 13, 2007The Kansas City Star (Missouri) Although the FTC has promised to take another look at the hot fuel issue, some consumer groups…
Sep 12, 2007