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Bustamante's aunt was imprisoned in meals-program fraud case.Orange County Register (California) "He's not calling up State Farm, he is calling a state…
Aug 23, 2003PUC, EDISON ELECTRICITY DEAL DID NOT VIOLATE STATE LAW, JUSTICES SAYSan Jose Mercury News (California) "This is a $3 billion travesty of…
Aug 22, 2003PUC can charge customers for utilities' energy-related lossesThe San Francisco Chronicle Harvey Rosenfield of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said…
Aug 22, 2003Associated Press "What the Supreme Court has said here is the utility companies get to reap all the rewards of deregulation but…
Aug 22, 2003ASSOCIATED PRESS A bill broadening whistle-blower protections for employees who report, or refuse to participate in, illegal employer activities was approved Thursday…
Aug 22, 2003BestWire "Whether or not politicians will take insurers, hospitals and doctors to task for skyrocketing health-care costs will determine the success of…
Aug 22, 2003Repeal of FDR-era Consumer Protection Would Lead to More Disasters, Higher Electricity Rates
Aug 21, 2003Consumer Group Calls on Governor Davis to Stop Ratepayer Bailout of Utility's Deregulation Disaster According to the state Supreme Court, utilities are…
Aug 21, 2003Nation's First 1-800 Whistleblower Hotline Part Of Early Warning System To Prevent Corporate Crime in California
Aug 21, 2003New rules regulating unsolicited faxes are delayed.St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Fax owners must use company time to sort through the faxes, and…
Aug 20, 2003Los Angeles Daily News "The problem is that legislators have until Sept. 12 to get their special-interest bills to Davis and the…
Aug 19, 2003Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton, CA) "If this proposal was not half a loaf, the industry wouldn't swallow it," said Jerry Flanagan of FTCR.…
Aug 19, 2003CA Legislature to Convene Health Care Reform and Workers' Compensation Conference Committees "Politicians influenced by health insurance company campaign contributions must remember…
Aug 18, 2003President Bush Should Investigate Connection Between Deregulation and Power Outages
Aug 18, 2003Wednesday deadline for passage of billThe San Francisco Chronicle "The only reason SB1 was brought back, obviously, is because the governor needed…
Aug 18, 2003Kansas City Star Did deregulation of electric utilities contribute to the problem? The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, which advocates more…
Aug 16, 2003Wired Magazine Faced with the possibility of an expensive campaign to defeat a threatened ballot initiative, California's financial industry set aside its…
Aug 15, 2003