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Associated Press A member of the California Public Utilities Commission who invested $10,000 in one of the nation's largest wireless communications companies…
Dec 18, 2001Consumers Are Not Edison's ATM Machine
Dec 18, 2001More Than Two Thirds Report Bureaucracy of Health Care System Worsening
Dec 17, 2001(Partial Transcript)Community Television Foundation of South Florida Well, what a difference a year makes. In California a year ago, electricity prices were…
Dec 14, 2001Kaiser's request for finding him in contempt is deniedThe San Francisco Chronicle A federal judge ruled yesterday that the state HMO czar…
Dec 11, 2001Court rules it was OK to cite case of Medicare patientSan Diego Union Tribune A federal judge ruled yesterday that the state…
Dec 11, 2001City News Service A federal judge today ruled that the California Department of Managed Health Care is acting within the law and…
Dec 10, 2001(Editorial)Los Angeles Times On the morning of Jan. 26, 1996, Margaret Utterback awoke with a gnawing, sharp pain in her side and…
Dec 10, 2001United Press International A federal judge in Los Angeles refused Monday to charge the head of California's Department of Managed Care with…
Dec 10, 2001Critics say Kaiser is trying to intimidate the state's top healthcare official. The company questions the use of a Medicare case to…
Dec 10, 2001Federal court Judge Ronald Lew ruled today that California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) Director Daniel Zingale was not in contempt…
Dec 10, 2001Six years ago its prognosis was poor. Today its expansion is being cheered by investors and challenged by consumer advocates.Los Angeles Times…
Dec 9, 2001Firm is trying to overturn the young agency's $1.1-million fine for alleged fatal lapses in care.Los Angeles Times Kaiser Permanente, the state's…
Dec 7, 2001Claims Not To Dispute Facts In Patients' Death, Just Any Obligation Under State Law n yesterday's administrative hearing in Oakland regarding a…
Dec 5, 2001United Press International Enron's dramatic plunge into bankruptcy this week has stirred up visceral emotions over more than just the images of…
Dec 4, 2001Collapse will not halt pressure for changeFinancial Times (London) Enron's collapse is unlikely to reverse the steady march towards a deregulated US…
Dec 3, 2001Enron Was Done in By Its Own Greed; California, Nation Should Put a Halt to Energy Deregulation
Dec 3, 2001The Fresno Bee One issue on the street this holiday season seems something like belief in the anti-Santa. Do you or did…
Dec 2, 2001