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HEALTH CARE: THE COLLAPSE LEAVES CARE OF 300,000 IN QUESTIONLos Angeles Times The largest for-profit medical group in Southern California will close…
Nov 20, 2000Limiting HMOs' Overhead & Profits Vital To Cost Effective Universal Health Care System The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said…
Nov 20, 2000POWER: EDISON'S PROPOSAL TO PUC WOULD BOOST THE CUSTOMER'S COST BY 9.9% AND ASKS FOR AN EARLY END TO THE FREEZELos Angeles…
Nov 18, 2000The San Diego Union-Tribune LOS ANGELES -- Southern California Edison said yesterday that in a filing next Wednesday it would "hammer home"…
Nov 18, 2000The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said today that the results of the November 2000 election make it far more likely…
Nov 17, 2000Advocates Say PUC, Governor Should Reject Unacceptable and Illegal Plan
Nov 17, 2000Utility Seeks to Avoid Clear Rules of State Law
Nov 16, 2000GOVERNOR ALSO ASKS FEDERAL REGULATORS TO GIVE REFUNDS TO CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS WHO FELT THE IMPACT OF DEREGULATION THIS SUMMER WITH HIGH BILLSLos…
Nov 15, 2000UC Berkeley Conference on Electricity Deregulation Dominated by Private Energy Corporations
Nov 13, 2000Stockton Record Five months after California's experiment with deregulation sent electricity prices soaring, state policy-makers haven't come anywhere close to a consensus…
Nov 12, 2000San Diego Union-Tribune VISTA -- Voters here approved two campaign-finance measures, but Proposition V, which was put on the ballot by the…
Nov 10, 2000The San Diego Union-Tribune VISTA -- Lawyer Paul Campo and teacher Steve Gronke took early leads last night in the race for…
Nov 8, 2000All-Volunteer Campaign Potentially Undone by Politician's "Poison Pill" Prop W volunteers celebrated the passage of this much needed reform at the polls…
Nov 8, 2000Prop LL's All-Volunteer Campaign a Sign of Citizens' Power to Enact Strong Conflict of Interest Protections When Politicians Won't Act Prop LL…
Nov 8, 2000Prop J's All-Volunteer Campaign a Sign of Citizens' Power to Enact Strong Conflict of Interest Protections When Politicians Won't Act Prop J…
Nov 8, 2000All-Volunteer Campaigns a Sign of Citizens' Power to Enact Strong Conflict of Interest Protections When Politicians Will Not Act Volunteers with the…
Nov 8, 2000Issue will remain unsettled until next year when a new agreement is reached and flaws in deregulation are fixedLos Angeles Times The…
Nov 3, 2000San Jose Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Federal regulators Wednesday said California's electricity rates last summer were "unjust and unreasonable" but…
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