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No 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…
Feb 28, 2008SANTA MONICA, CA -- Two consumer groups said today that they will continue their challenge of three overreaching patents on human stem…
Feb 28, 2008Interesting op-ed in the LA Times yesterday from one of the architects of the Clinton and Obama health plans. Jacob Hacker, a…
Feb 27, 2008SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- In an indication of California's growing influence in regenerative science circles, according to state officials, 21 stem cell…
Feb 26, 2008Last year, six million letters bearing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's name and official state seal went out to Californians. The missives, sent by…
Feb 26, 2008With Fabian Núñez termed out, 10 Democrats are politicking for the Assembly's biggest prize The prize is a $17,500 pay increase, a…
Feb 25, 2008STATE INSURANCE CZAR MAY RUN FOR GOVERNOR IN 2010 SACRAMENTO, CA -- Some kids dream of being a firefighter or an astronaut…
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