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Group Pleads With LA Motorists Not to Blame Wildlife for 7-Cent a Gallon Price Spike
Mar 6, 2007DRIVERS DIG DEEPER AS PRICES RISEModesto Bee One consumer advocacy group, Santa Monica's Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, called this week…
Mar 5, 2007BioTech Transfer Week On the same day that WARF issued its statement on policy changes, the Foundation for Taxpayer Consumer Rights, a…
Mar 5, 2007Agreement's details kept secret amid $60 million lobbying push - Draft of pact calls for no strikes, industry to allow labor organizingThe…
Mar 5, 2007FTCR Calls On Attorney General, Boxer To Force Sale Of Temperature-Adjusted Gasoline Pump In California
Mar 5, 2007A company backs off plans to sell retail pumps that would solve the problem in California.The Kansas City Star (Missouri) "Now that…
Mar 4, 2007Former customers of AT&T Wireless say service quality fell after the Cingular merger.Tulsa World (Oklahoma) Harvey Rosenfield, who is co-counsel for the…
Mar 3, 2007After national outbreaks of E. coli tied to the California spinach and lettuce industry, one might assume that California's Fitness Guru-in-chief would…
Mar 2, 2007Group Calls on Speaker Nuñez to Fix Video Franchise Law After PUC Rejects Oversight Role, Consumer Protections
Mar 1, 2007Sacramento Bee (California) Yet California prices have risen more quickly than in the rest of the country. The traditional "spread" of 20…
Feb 28, 2007Institute will comply on all but one requestThe San Diego Union-Tribune "It's hard for me to determine whether this is the auditors…
Feb 28, 2007CSNews.com The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said there is no credible reason for the large and widening disparity, and called…
Feb 28, 2007Union of Concerned Scientists
Feb 27, 2007Pasadena Star-News (California) The act, once known as Measure B, was approved by voters in 2001 by a 60 percent margin. In…
Feb 27, 2007California's average is almost 36 cents higher year over year. Refinery problems are blamed.The Los Angeles Times The gap between the California…
Feb 27, 2007During his news conference at the National Press Club (get webcast here) in Washington Monday, the Gov fielded lots of softballs from…
Feb 27, 2007It Is 'Political Malpractice' If Congress, State Fail to Act, Say Consumer Advocates
Feb 26, 2007Stem Cell Week The Foundation For Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) praised provisions in new international stem cell research guidelines issued recently…
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