Privacy
Council opposes initiative
Pasadena Star News PASADENA -- Ralph Nader may get a taste of his own medicine in the March 6 Pasadena election, if…
Nov 22, 2000Consumer Watchdog
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Insurance Industry Spoils Thanksgiving for Quake Victims
Insurers Take Legislature, People of California to Court
Nov 22, 2000
Insurance
State Seeks Dismissal of Insurance Settlements
Los Angeles Times Arguing that former state Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush acted illegally, California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer asked the courts Monday…
Nov 21, 2000
Insurance
Quake insurers taken to court
State wants to void Quackenbush dealsSacramento Bee In a move that could have implications for Northridge earthquake victims, California officials went to…
Nov 21, 2000
Healthcare
Ex-Rivals Unite In Wider Health-Insurance Plan
Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- Former enemies in health-care reform battles put aside their differences to propose steps to cut the ranks…
Nov 21, 2000
Healthcare
KPC TO SHUTTER MEDICAL CLINICS
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, 2000Health Coverage Proposal By Hospitals, HMOs and Families USA Falls Short of Real Fix
Limiting HMOs' Overhead & Profits Vital To Cost Effective Universal Health Care System The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said…
Nov 20, 2000
Energy
SCE SEEKS RATE HIKE, RATE-SETTING AUTHORITY
POWER: 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, 2000
Energy
Edison to pursue issue of market manipulation
The San Diego Union-Tribune LOS ANGELES -- Southern California Edison said yesterday that in a filing next Wednesday it would "hammer home"…
Nov 18, 2000Election Bodes Well For Passage Of Federal Patients’ Bill Of Rights
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said today that the results of the November 2000 election make it far more likely…
Nov 17, 2000Edison Proposes Massive Consumer Rate Hikes, Continuation of Failed Deregulation Policies
Advocates Say PUC, Governor Should Reject Unacceptable and Illegal Plan
Nov 17, 2000Edison Sues State In Effort to Back Bill Customers $2.64 Billion
Utility Seeks to Avoid Clear Rules of State Law
Nov 16, 2000
Energy
DAVIS SEEKS PRICE CONTROLS ON ELECTRICITY
GOVERNOR ALSO ASKS FEDERAL REGULATORS TO GIVE REFUNDS TO CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS WHO FELT THE IMPACT OF DEREGULATION THIS SUMMER WITH HIGH BILLSLos…
Nov 15, 2000Utilities, Power Companies Operate Under Cover of Academia
UC Berkeley Conference on Electricity Deregulation Dominated by Private Energy Corporations
Nov 13, 2000
Energy
Politicians, activists seek utility re-regulation
Stockton 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, 2000
Privacy
Council’s Prop. V prevails in Vista
San Diego Union-Tribune VISTA -- Voters here approved two campaign-finance measures, but Proposition V, which was put on the ballot by the…
Nov 10, 2000
Privacy
Campo, Gronke break into the lead
The San Diego Union-Tribune VISTA -- Lawyer Paul Campo and teacher Steve Gronke took early leads last night in the race for…
Nov 8, 2000Vista’s Prop W Passes By Wide Margin
All-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, 2000