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The Kansas City Star It's a striking case of wanting it both ways, said Judy Dugan, research director for The Foundation for…
Oct 6, 2007Associated Press Doug Heller, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a Santa Monica-based consumer group, said Nunez should…
Oct 5, 2007THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "UC Berkeley is becoming an extension campus of Big Oil U," John Simpson of the Santa Monica-based Foundation…
Oct 5, 2007Australian will head $3 billion California research institute.Sacramento Bee (California) Trounson said he had not intended to mislead, and apologized. The episode…
Oct 5, 2007Wired Magazine John M. Simpson, stem-cell project director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights of Santa Monica, California, told directors…
Oct 5, 2007Los Angeles Times Luxurious living is incompatible with Núñez's image as a champion of working people, said Doug Heller with FTCR. "Here's…
Oct 5, 2007Insurers Top Donor to Committee Chair Kanjorski
Oct 4, 2007The San Diego Union-Tribune A member of a taxpayer advocacy group said that the denial of the Burnham application and the withdrawal…
Oct 4, 2007Agency won't award two grants, and sells more bonds than expected in first public saleThe Scientist Magazine "What people don't realize is…
Oct 4, 2007Changes to challenged stem cell patents are not a step-back from their claims, says WARFThe Scientist Magazine The patents are under reexamination…
Oct 4, 2007Los Angeles Times Jean Yi, the CHA Institute's chief executive, said the institute backed out because of criticism that it was not…
Oct 4, 2007The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin) John Simpson, stem cell project director at the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, said he hadn't…
Oct 3, 2007The Record (Stockton, California) Doug Heller, executive director of the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Consumer and Taxpayer Rights, which has advocated for…
Oct 3, 2007A businessman who entered politics for the first time last year, Poizner is the only Republican, aside from the governor, who holds…
Oct 2, 2007CSNews.com After the debut of Chevron's $15 million "Power of Human Energy" ad campaign -- which aims at engaging discussion on energy…
Oct 2, 2007Oil Giant Touts Necessity of Oil for "Foreseeable Future," Yet Would Cut Back Refinery Expansion
Sep 28, 2007San Jose Mercury News (California) "I don't know what the people at Stanford would be thinking about it, but I think it's…
Sep 27, 2007Santa Monica, CA -- In a letter sent today to California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez and key legislators the Foundation for Taxpayer…
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