Defective Quackenbush Regulations Permit Insurers to Continue to Base Rates Primarily on Where Motorists Live Rather than on How Well They Drive Over twelve years after California voters passed Proposition 103 in 1988, the provision…
All-Volunteer Campaign a Sign of Citizens' Power, Desire for Conflict of Interest Protections Citizens celebrated a victory for clean government at the polls Tuesday with the passage of Prop B with 60% of the vote,…
All-Volunteer Campaign a Sign of CitizensÕ Power, Desire for Campaign Reform Citizens celebrated a victory for clean government at the polls Tuesday with the passage of Prop A with 55% of the vote, instituting in…
President Bush is apparently readying a new poison pill measure to stop a bi-partisan, compromise HMO patients' bill of rights that has enough votes to reach his desk.
But Still Cause For Some Concern The Foundation For Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today that the compromise HMO patients' rights measure backed today by US Senator John McCain, which has enough votes to…
Public Demands Davis Keep His Word to Protect Ratepayers and Taxpayers Dozens of citizens, outraged at Governor Gray Davis' support for a multi-billion dollar utility industry bailout, gathered with buckets outside his Los Angeles office…
Public Demands Hertzberg Speak for Public, not Utilities, in Sacramento Dozens of citizens, outraged at Speaker of the Assembly Robert Hertzberg's support for a multi-billion dollar utility industry bailout, gathered with buckets outside the Speaker's…
Consumer Group Calls For Retail Rate Regulation, Other Public Controls The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said today that, as the Governor and legislators deal with the energy crisis, the statehouse has become "Wall…
In a memo sent to its clients, a Wall Street-based global investment banking firm has confirmed suspicions that last week's blackouts were intended to pressure state officials to order a public bailout of the utility…
