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The Los Angeles Daily News Double-digit increases in health benefit costs have hurt the state's midsize companies hardest because they lack the…
Jul 24, 2002BestWire The House has held a brief hearing on a medical-malpractice bill that seeks to limit liability in health-care lawsuits.
Jul 24, 2002Foster Electric Report Citing the lack of sufficient infrastructure and proven rules needed to make Western wholesale power markets sufficiently competitive, FERC…
Jul 24, 2002Amendment backers argue governments keep too much secretThe Sacramento Bee If the proposed constitutional amendment is ultimately approved by voters, government bodies…
Jul 21, 2002Ruling: Judge voids voter-OKd Pasadena initiative barring certain donations to city officials. Backers of the measure voice dismay.The Los Angeles Times A…
Jul 20, 2002The Orange County Register Federal energy regulators Wednesday capped wholesale electricity prices in California at $250 per megawatt hour and adopted other…
Jul 18, 2002Limit jumps to $250 per megawatt-hour under plan. Panel moves to cut Davis' authority over state electricity grid.The Los Angeles Times Federal…
Jul 18, 2002Sacramento Bee Re-igniting a debate that burned during last year's energy crisis, federal regulators nearly tripled the price ceiling on electricity in…
Jul 18, 2002Corporate Scandals Have No Impact on Bush Administration's Handling of Energy Deregulation's Failure
Jul 17, 2002National Bill Would Hurt Patients, Help Only Insurers' Profits
Jul 17, 2002The Charlotte Observer As California reeled toward blackouts early last year, Duke Energy Corp. raised its wholesale power prices, some nearly sixfold…
Jul 12, 2002St. Petersburg Times Heard the latest flap over the director of a public corporation who sold his shares for $848,560 just before…
Jul 10, 2002Proposed California Law Would Punish Executive Silence and Stop Fraud Early On
Jul 9, 2002Orange County Business Journal With federal price caps due to expire on Sept. 30 and the state's authority to buy power set…
Jul 7, 2002Manage hospitals like utilitiesThe Los Angeles Times The only way to ensure access to Los Angeles County's emergency rooms and hospitals is…
Jul 7, 2002L.A.'s top labor leader shills for the HMO vulturesL.A. Weekly When it came to an urgent, no-brainer, pro-consumer reform of some of…
Jul 5, 2002STATE TELEPHONE REGULATION REPORT A California appeals court stayed a lower court ruling that would have immediately ousted PUC Commissioner Henry Duque…
Jul 5, 2002CNN TV - LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE The California Senate passed a law that would hold corporate executives personally liable for failing to…
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