Consumer Watchdog

$90 Mil Extra Primary Election is Taxpayer Boondoggle;

Longer Terms for Núñez, Perata Don't Merit Cost of Three Elections

Exxon in Sheep’s Clothing

TheHill.com What's up with oil industry advertising? In full-page ads in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other major newspapers…

Medical Costs See Biggest Increase in More Than 15 Years As Policymakers Consider Requiring Californians to Buy Health Insurance

Wisconsin foundation eases stem cell patent restrictions after groups’ legal challenge

Biotech Week Policy changes announced that ease licensing requirements on human embryonic stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation…

California Gasoline Sharply Up as Oil Prices Stagnate;

Group Sees Oil Companies Setting Up State's Motorists For Another Summer Price Crisis

Climate Change Futures Report: Health, Ecological & Economic Dimensions

Center for Health & The Global Environment - Harvard Medical School

Schwarzenegger, Núñez & Perata Must Guarantee Price & Quality of Health Coverage Before Requiring Californians to Buy

Massachusetts Rushing To Meet Health Insurance Reform Deadlines

National Underwriter - Life & Health Edition An out-of-state group, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, Santa Monica, Calif., has argued…

CAPITOL NOTEBOOK: Primary move – No limits on cynicism

Contra Costa Times (California) "Really, what we're looking at is two powerful politicians looking to extend their stay in office." -- Carmen…

Rights group says minimum insurance under Massachusetts’s health reform must cap patient costs

Health Insurance Law Weekly In order to provide basic coverage and protect patients from financial ruin, minimum policies under the state's new…

Loans launch state’s stem cell ambitions;

California draws on public money, awarding about $45 million to 20 research institutions.The Los Angeles Times "Many of us had expressed concern…

Letters to the Editor – Re: “Tort war general cashiered”

Sacramento Bee (California) Proposition 103 has saved Californians more than $23 billion on their auto insurance alone, according to the Consumer Federation…

NRDC ExxonMobil Internal Memo on Global Climate Science

NRDC

Allstate Revises Way It Sets Premiums

Tampa Tribune (Florida) Allstate Insurance Company is changing the way it uses a person's credit to set premiums on home and auto…

Term-limits initiative proposed

THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (California) California has yet to move the presidential primary. A bill to do so passed the Senate this…

Is Allstate’s new policy a brushoff?

The insurer seeks a hike in home rates. Some say it wants to exit the state.The Los Angeles Times Some consumer advocates…

Termed out? Maybe not;

MEASURE'S APPROVAL COULD KEEP PERATA AND NÚÑEZ IN POWERThe San Jose Mercury News (California) Critics say that legislators are using an early…

Board to hand out stem cell research grants;

Legal battle plays out as loans fund programThe San Diego Union-Tribune The board could only make "provisional" votes on the recommendations last…