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The San Francisco Chronicle Legislative leaders are drafting a new rescue plan for Southern California Edison that would put the utility back…
May 31, 2001Financial Times PG&E, the Californian utility driven to bankruptcy proceedings by the state's power crisis, drew a storm of criticism yesterday over…
May 31, 2001San Jose Mercury News As state officials cut deals in recent months to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase electricity, they…
May 31, 2001BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians Bailout Watch #48 - May 30, 2001 Q. What's unaffordable,…
May 30, 2001Organizaciones por los derechos de los consumidores celebran salida del ex titular de Seguros Un día después de la dimisión del comisionado…
May 30, 2001How the state's contracts with crucial electric power providers actually encourage them to gouge usSF Weekly As California's energy crisis heads into…
May 30, 2001Sacramento Bee Patients would retain the right to sue despite health-care agreements that say otherwise under legislation that passed the state Senate…
May 30, 2001BestWire The California state Senate has passed a bill that would give patients a choice of suing health maintenance organizations in court…
May 30, 2001BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians Bailout Watch #47 - May 29, 2001 THEM. "They..." Cheney…
May 29, 2001Associated Press Legislation bolstering a patients' right-to-sue law was narrowly approved by the state Senate on Tuesday despite opposition from business and…
May 29, 2001The Orange County Register Detectives would seem to be tripping over each other to discover who did what to whom, and why,…
May 29, 2001First of Better Business Bills Receives Support A bill allowing patients a choice of court or arbitration under California's new right-to-sue law…
May 29, 2001Three cities where voters approved donation curbs balk at implementing them.Los Angeles Times Campaign reform advocates turned to the ballot boxes in…
May 27, 2001The San Francisco Chronicle The Pig People will be there. So will Medea Benjamin, the former Green Party candidate who likes to…
May 27, 2001OC Weekly In early May, Southern California Edison launched a new statewide television- and radio-advertising campaign designed to convince the public that…
May 25, 2001BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians Bailout Watch #46 - May 24, 2001 Calling Jerry Maguire.…
May 24, 2001Two Claremont officials decide in midst of review of garbage truck bids to try to implement Measure A.Inland Valley Times Almost a…
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