Utilities Drive Governor Brown In The Wrong Direction

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Tue, 10/20/2015 - 15:57

Why is everyone fixated on a $34 bathroom scale and Governor Jerry Brown’s move to the newly-renovated governor’s mansion when there are far more dollars at stake in the Governor's handling of the Public Utilities Commission?

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Eyes Open, Governor’s Panel Takes On Gas Price Manipulation By Oil Refiners

Submitted by Jamie Court on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 12:12
Being at the California Energy Commission to testify about how California oil refiners manipulated prices at the pump Tuesday was like prosecuting a case against a defendant who refused to show.
 

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Death Rattle for Corporate Collaborator? SEIU's Corporate Collusion With Hospitals May Collapse

Submitted by Jamie Court on Fri, 10/16/2015 - 10:24
Word on the street is that union President Dave Regan's Faustian bargain with the California hospital industry -- cuddle up with hospitals' management to keep patient problems quiet and receive more than 60,000 new hospital workers -- is now teetering on the brink of collapse. Apparently Regan shut up, but the hospitals didn't put up the new workers. Good riddance. 
 

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State Regulators Defenseless In the Face of Aetna Premium Hikes

Submitted by Eddie Barrera on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:00
Aetna is ending the year just like it started, with state regulators saying the insurance company has hiked premiums excessively, and there is nothing they can do about it. 
 

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Why Does It Take KCBS To Do Top Toxics Regulator's Job?

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Thu, 10/15/2015 - 12:11
Last night, CBS TV Los Angeles ran an astonishing story. 
 
Reporter Randy Paige visited homes within two miles of the now-shuttered lead battery recycler Exide. Using an EPA-certified device to instantly measure lead levels in soil or dust, he found children were playing in hazardous waste levels of lead ten times higher or more than the acceptable residential standard. 

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Will CA Attorney General Stand With Healthcare Workers And Patients Or a Hedge Fund?

Submitted by Carmen Balber on Tue, 10/13/2015 - 16:20
California Attorney General Kamala Harris will soon have to decide if she is on the side of patients and healthcare workers or a New York hedge fund looking to make easy money with little risk by buying six financially-struggling Catholic hospitals. 
 

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