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New Assembly Speaker Karen Bass took quick action yesterday to curtail "ghost voting" - when Assembly members vote for their absent colleagues,...
Jun 11, 2008About 1.7 Million Customers Will Save On Auto, Home Policies Mercury General Corp., a Los Angeles-based low-cost insurer, today is expected to…
Jun 11, 2008Mercury Insurance is holding a press conference Wednesday with California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner to announce rate decreases for drivers, homeowners and…
Jun 11, 2008I’ve written a lot about “not voting” over the years, that particularly cowardly legislative habit of “taking a walk” when...
Jun 11, 2008Consumer Watchdog needs to hear from patients who who are insured but have been forced to pay extra on their medical bills.…
Jun 10, 2008The backers of the bill say it would help consumers by reminding them to take medications and refill prescriptions. Opponents see problems…
Jun 10, 2008The Fair Political Practices Commission continues to clamp down on loopholes in gift disclosure laws that have opened in years past under…
Jun 10, 2008Henry Nicholas, the multiply indicted co-founder and ex-CEO of Broadcom, is also Gov. Schwarzenegger’s #4 overall donor. He and his NSC Holdings…
Jun 10, 2008Calderon, A Recipient Of Industry Donations, Says That 'Marketing Or Sales Pitches' Would Be Barred Privacy concerns have been raised about a…
Jun 10, 2008Used In Assembly For Decades - Critics Say It Is Unethical California lawmakers routinely violate their own law and cast votes for…
Jun 10, 2008A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline at the Shell Station at the Shell Station at the corner of Calhoun and Meeting streets…
Jun 9, 2008The group Consumer Watchdog is calling for the U.S. government to regulate U.S. gasoline supplies and refinery operations, arguing that refiners are…
Jun 9, 2008Sacramentans and their Central Valley cousins along Highway 99 have reason to feel stressed at the gas pump: They're paying Bay Area…
Jun 7, 2008Price Spike Follows Self-Serving Prediction of $150 a Barrel, Israeli Threat Against Iran; U.S. Government Must Speed Market Regulation Santa Monica, CA…
Jun 6, 2008An unprecedented spike in crude oil prices followed the release of a dour unemployment report Friday, sending the stock market to its…
Jun 6, 2008Addicts: Officials Could Put End To Doctor-Shopping. An online prescription drug database that allows doctors and pharmacists to track a patient's medication…
Jun 5, 2008Ideas to help people ease the burden of high gas prices are swirling in Washington. Will any of them work?
Jun 5, 2008This was the first time since the 1940's that California has held two primaries in one year. In their zeal to place…
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