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Companies, Governments Accused of Exaggerating Eco-friendliness As interest in green issues reaches a white-hot pitch, government and industry are jumping on the…
Mar 6, 2008Check out this piece at the Campaign Legal Center blog today, about the roadblocks to getting a proposed new Office of Congressional…
Mar 6, 2008The next time someone defends the drug industry by explaining that they would never be able to do the research needed to…
Mar 6, 2008The Low-Cost Auto Insurance program makes a low-cost auto insurance policy available to qualifying, low-income drivers in California.
Mar 5, 2008Don't tell Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger it's better to give than receive. He got the darnedest gifts last year, dozens of them, ranging…
Mar 5, 2008The Fair Political Practices Commission is on a roll. The California ethics board took another aggressive step to curtail abuse of gift-giving…
Mar 4, 2008No matter how high gas prices soar this summer, consumer advocates believe California drivers could save up to a dime per gallon…
Mar 4, 2008U.S. Price Also Near Record; Group Demands Curbs on Speculation, Action on Oil Subsidies Santa Monica, CA -- Spiking gasoline prices are…
Mar 3, 2008The Capitol Morning Report notes thirteen fundraisers are scheduled for tomorrow, a number that someone must have considered an unlucky omen until…
Mar 3, 2008The National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Assoc. is airing a radio spot in Ohio about the debate over mandatory health insurance proposals.
Mar 1, 2008Warren Buffett, owner of Geico Insurance and major reinsurance companies, has begun to sound the alarms that I'm thinking will soon...
Mar 1, 2008Wisconsin's role in the commercialization of embryonic stem cell research has received a boost from the U.S. patent office, which rejected a…
Feb 29, 2008There’s a great new study out this week from our friends at ...
Feb 29, 2008The health care debate in the national media (thanks to sniping on the presidential campaign trail) has boiled down to one question:…
Feb 28, 2008Reporters covering the goings on at California's Capitol in Sacramento want a WiFi network installed in the building so they can go…
Feb 28, 2008I don't know diddly about how the oil industry legally siphons billions in profits from captive customers while the nation's oil-based economy…
Feb 28, 2008Chuck Quackenbush, the disgraced former California insurance commissioner who resigned in 2000 after accusations of misusing public funds, has been of late,…
Feb 28, 2008Appeal Still Planned Against Narrowed Claims SANTA MONICA, CA -- Closer analysis of the patent office's decision on a human embryonic stem…
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