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PR Newswire US Put the oil companies front and center in your advertising, instead of hiding behind front people and concealing the…
Aug 22, 2006Financial ties of grant reviewers for California stem cell institute kept confidentialThe Scientist John Simpson, stem cell project director for the Foundation…
Aug 22, 2006Insurance: Emphasizing Driving Records Over Zip Codes Will Cost Certain People Money, Experts Say.The Press Enterprise (Riverside, CA) "If you are on…
Aug 21, 2006Who's to blame when an adoption fails? In this case, a greedy matchmaker eager for a quick 'sale.'WEST Magazine (The Los Angeles…
Aug 20, 2006Political corruption needed a super solution last night when the Bat Signal lit up a fundraiser for Governor Schwarzenegger in Sacramento. Batman…
Aug 18, 2006We dropped by Fred Sands' huge apricot-colored Italianate villa this morning to see if we could get in to his sale of…
Aug 18, 2006Under pressure, the auto insurer agrees to comply with new pricing criteria and also will reduce fees.The Los Angeles Times State Farm's…
Aug 18, 2006Former attorney general John Van de Kamp says Santa Monica is trashing its anti-corruption billLos Angeles City Beat "They basically trashed Proposition…
Aug 17, 2006State's Largest Insurer Promises to Comply with Prop 103 Good Driver Reforms After Appeals Court Rejects Industry Challenge to Garamendi Rules
Aug 17, 2006The Argonaut (Santa Monica, CA) "Santa Monica prides themselves on being forward-thinking and it's ironic that Pasadena, that doesn't necessarily have that…
Aug 17, 2006Electric Power Daily Beth Willon, spokeswoman for the Yes on 87, dismissed conflict-of-interest concerns, calling them "oil company fiction." The No on…
Aug 17, 2006Sacramento Bee Sponsored by a group advocating a campaign finance measure on the Nov. 7 ballot, the "Dash for Cash" contest takes…
Aug 17, 2006PR Newswire US Proposition 87 will reduce our use of foreign oil and increase the use of domestic fuel sources and will…
Aug 17, 2006Fred Sands, the big Los Angeles realtor, has a new listing. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be up for bid at Sands' Brentwood home…
Aug 17, 2006The San Diego Union-Tribune Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica, likened the state's gasoline…
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