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San Jose Mercury News In their rush to sign $42.6 billion in long-term electricity contracts earlier this year, California authorities failed to…
Dec 21, 2001Public Audit Confirms Urgency of Renegotiating Ten-Year Power Contracts
Dec 20, 2001Kaiser Campaign Cash Should Not Be Perceived To Have Bought State Bonds
Dec 20, 2001The Associated Press The roughly 40,000 California customers of fallen energy giant Enron Corp. are in a pickle.
Dec 20, 2001Consumers Are Not Edison's ATM Machine
Dec 18, 2001PUC official pleads case in stock dealSan Francisco Chronicle Fending off a suit to remove him from office, one of the state's…
Dec 18, 2001The San Francisco Chronicle Fending off a suit to remove him from office, one of the state's top utility commissioners testified yesterday…
Dec 18, 2001The Associated Press Henry Duque, a six-year member of the California Public Utilities Commission, testified Monday that he didn't know until last…
Dec 18, 2001Associated 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, 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, 2001Federal court Judge Ronald Lew ruled today that California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) Director Daniel Zingale was not in contempt…
Dec 10, 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…
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