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Wired Magazine Critics of CIRM, including John M. Simpson, stem cell project director for the Foundation of Taxpayer and Consumer Rights of…
Dec 13, 2007After Public Pressure, Five Research Institutions Are Identified During Grant Award Discussion
Dec 12, 2007Grants are great, but the California institute created to fund research needs to put its business in order.Los Angeles Times The agency's…
Dec 12, 2007The San Francisco Chronicle The Fair Political Practices Commission is responsible for enforcing laws governing the stem cell agency, which was created…
Dec 12, 2007Los Angeles Times California's elected officials have failed this year to take care of any pressing state problems -- except their own.…
Dec 12, 2007Los Angeles Times California's elected officials have failed this year to take care of any pressing state problems -- except their own.…
Dec 12, 2007The San Diego Union-Tribune (California) John Simpson of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights filed a complaint about the incident to…
Dec 12, 2007Sacramento Bee (California) John Simpson, stem cell project director for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, targeted Reed in a Nov.…
Dec 12, 2007Burnham's Reed to be investigated by state commissionThe North County Times (San Diego, CA) In a related matter, the California Fair Political…
Dec 12, 2007California Labor Poised to Sell Out Consumers with Unaffordable Mandate
Dec 11, 2007The Sacramento Bee A taxpayers group filed a complaint Nov. 21 alleging that John Reed, one of the 29 members of the…
Dec 11, 2007The San Diego Union-Tribune The commission has sent letters to the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica and state…
Dec 11, 2007The San Diego Union-Tribune Taxpayer advocates who hammered the stem cell institute on the Reed matter were stymied as to how leaders…
Dec 8, 2007San Francisco Chronicle John Simpson, of the Santa Monica-based watchdog group Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, said the academic deans on…
Dec 8, 2007The Sacramento Bee John Simpson, spokesman for the watchdog group Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, said the rules should have been…
Dec 8, 2007CONFLICTS OF INTEREST CITED FOR 10 APPLICATIONSSan Jose Mercury News But John Simpson of the consumer group that complained about Reed said…
Dec 8, 2007Institutions, Board Members Involved Must Be Identified, Consumer Advocates Say
Dec 7, 2007