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Touring on whose dime?

The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, California) If the trips benefit the state's official interests, then the state should pay, said Doug Heller…

“Mandatory Purchase” Health Insurance Proposed by Governor Schwarzenegger and Senator Clinton Would Force 13 Million Californians to Buy Unaffordable Coverage

Bush, Schwarzenegger differ on global-warming approach

Copley News Service Some consumer watchdogs also criticized Linda Adams, the governor's top environmental adviser, and others for taking a spring trip…

Mandatory health care won’t curb costs

Marketplace Morning Report - NPR Radio (American Public Media) Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton laid out her plan for health care yesterday, which…

Mandatory health care won’t curb costs

Marketplace Morning Report - NPR Radio (American Public Media) Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton laid out her plan for health care yesterday, which…

Consumer Group Challenges Rep. Darrell Issa On “Hot Fuel” Ripoff of Motorists;

Congressman Stands By Scientifically Inaccurate FTC "Opinion Letter," Despite Withdrawal and Apology

Senator Hillary Clinton has new health care plan;

TODAY SHOW - NBC-TV News (7AM EST) AUER: Let me read you something: Jamie Court, who's the president for the Foundation for…

Hillary Clinton Announces Health Care Plan

CNN-TV AMERICAN MORNING (7AM EST) ROBERTS: There are some people who are critical still of this idea of mandating this individual mandate.…

How Hillary Won Over the Health-Care Industry

She was persona-non-grata in the early 1990s, when the then-first lady's dramatic health-care reform package went down. These days Hillary Clinton is…

Consumer Group: Hillary Clinton’s Mandatory Health Insurance Purchase Plan is An Act of War on the Middle Class Family That Can’t Afford $12K Policy;

Clinton Takes Over $1 Million From Insurers, Would Force All Americans to Buy Private Coverage

CONSUMER ADVOCATES WANT MOBILE FIRMS REGULATED

TECHNOLOGY DAILY "I can't think of another industry except the insurance industry back in the early 1980s that begs for regulation as…

Sen. Clinton’s health-care plan would require all to buy coverage

CBS MarketWatch.com Clinton's plan doesn't go far enough in reining in insurers' power, said Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer…

California Stem Cell Agency Swipes Key Australian Researcher as New President

WIRED Blog John M. Simpson, a sometime critic of CIRM and longtime observer of the agency, said in an interview that he…

Gov. Schwarzenegger Urged to Veto Fake ‘Consumer Protection’ on Hot Fuel Rip-off;

Foundation Says Legislation, AB868, Will Delay or Prevent Fair Sales of Gasoline

ANALYSIS REVEALS PHONE INDUSTRY’S POLITICAL CONNECTIONS

The Daily News of Los Angeles "It's a testament to the cell-phone industry's power that the first thing Arnold Schwarzenegger did when…

Stem cell pioneer to lead state’s institute;

Australian biologist Alan Trounson will aid California's $3-billion effort to find cures for diseases through human embryonic research.Los Angeles Times "This is…

Pay for Spray?

Thanks to a heads up from some tipsters in the Monterey area, ArnoldWatch has learned that despite protests by the Monterey community…

California’s $3 billion stem cell agency names new chief

San Francisco Chronicle Trounson earned undergraduate degrees from the University of New South Wales in Sydney and his doctorate in embryology from…