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San Jose Mercury News The move to return power buying to utilities is largely symbolic, said consumer advocate Doug Heller of the…
Dec 30, 2002Experts differ over cost of ethanol switchSacramento Bee Californians could pay $2 a gallon -- or higher -- for gasoline early in…
Dec 27, 2002Like energy companies, they manufacture losses. Like last year's energy debacle in California, the insurance crisis now afflicting the nation is the…
Dec 24, 2002Gannett News Service Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist's official ascension Monday to Senate majority leader could end up helping drug companies.
Dec 24, 2002Gannett News Service Frist's family founded HCA, a major hospital chain known as Hospital Corporation of America when it began in 1968…
Dec 23, 2002USA TODAY Frist's father and brother founded what has become the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain, HCA. The company has created vast…
Dec 23, 2002The Sacramento Bee Maria Teresa Quiej Alvarez and Andrew Willis symbolize the two extremes of California health care: Have and have-not. Got…
Dec 22, 2002The New York Times Two years ago this month, a record was set at the height of the West Coast energy crunch:…
Dec 22, 2002Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga Free Press Sen. Frist's likely election to the majority leader post already is raising new questions about his ties to…
Dec 22, 2002Frist's Ownership of Columbia/HCA Should Prevent Him From Taking Leadership Post Santa Monica, CA -- Senator Bill Frist's ownership of and entanglement…
Dec 20, 2002Frist's Ownership of Columbia/HCA Should Prevent Him From Taking Leadership Post
Dec 20, 2002California Experience Points to Need for Stronger Regulation
Dec 18, 2002California Experience Points to Need for Stronger Regulation
Dec 18, 2002The Associated Press Texas Gov. Rick Perry pledged Wednesday that neither the insurance lobby nor a lawyer-packed Legislature would prevent him from…
Dec 18, 2002Losses in stock market may be the reason for increasesTucson Citizen Doug Heller, a senior consumer advocate for the Foundation for Taxpayer…
Dec 17, 2002Is capping jury awards the best medicine?Wilkes Barre Times Leader As a new governor and General Assembly prepare to address skyrocketing malpractice…
Dec 15, 2002Associated Press State & Local Wire After an eight-year absence, Garamendi will return Jan. 6 to the job he first won in…
Dec 14, 2002Consumer Group Demands Documents Containing Information About Companies' Proposals to Relinquish Plants
Dec 13, 2002