Former eBay CEO rewrites campaign spending book
Meg Whitman, Republican gubernatorial candidate hopeful, smiles as she walks to the podium for an appearance in Roseville, Calif. on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Whitman, who is challenged by Insurance...
View ArticleCash is king as primary election campaign spending soars
Stan Statham is a former California lawmaker who for the past 15 years has been president of the California Broadcasters Association, the trade group that represents television stations. About this...
View ArticleTurnout light for county primary elections
First results from Ventura County recorder office has 52,694 absentee ballots counted.
View ArticleHerdt: GOP ticket presents a different picture
During California’s last campaign for governor, there was a strict rule inside the Republican candidate’s campaign: Arnold Schwarzenegger was not to be photographed or filmed with any other Republican...
View ArticleCalif to review rate hikes of 4 health insurers
LOS ANGELES (AP) - California's four largest health insurers will have rate hike proposals reviewed by independent actuaries to keep them in line with legal limits on profit.
View ArticleBrown, Whitman take turns shifting
So is Meg Whitman, having won the California Republican nomination for governor, now trimming her sails and tacking to the center as she vies with Democrat Jerry Brown?
View ArticleCampaign disclosure rules poised to make jump onto the Internet
The regulators of campaign practices in California on Thursday said they will bring the state's political rules into the digital age by requiring that Internet advertisements such as YouTube videos...
View ArticleCorporate bucks get a bigger role in state politics
Money has always been crucial in California politics. As far back as the mid-1960s, the legendary Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh called it “the mother’s milk” of his profession.
View ArticleWorkers' comp is poised for a blowup
Workers’ compensation is the multibillion-dollar system that is supposed to treat and support Californians who suffer job-related injuries and illnesses as the legal alternative to disabled employees...
View ArticleCorrection: Meg Whitman spending story
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - In a story Sept. 16 about California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's campaign spending, The Associated Press gave an incorrect title for her opponent in last spring's...
View ArticleHerdt: Whitman stumbles on a path she chose
If Democrat Jerry Brown is elected governor next month, he should offer Republican Steve Poizner a front-row seat at his inauguration.
View ArticleVoters have troubling news for immigrant bashers
There’s bad news in the offing for America’s political immigrant bashers, beyond even the fact that the most egregious among those who sought to make hay by blasting newcomers in last fall’s elections...
View ArticleRegulator to PacifiCare: Keep $120M for fines
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A California regulator is taking the unprecedented step of ordering PacifiCare Life and Health Insurance to keep $120 million in profits in the state to help pay up to $1 billion in...
View ArticleCalif. regulator to insurer: Keep $120M for fines
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A California regulator is taking the unprecedented step of ordering PacifiCare Life and Health Insurance to keep $120 million in profits in the state to help pay up to $1 billion in...
View ArticleElias: GOP might have a bench after all under new system
GOP might have a bench after all under new system
View ArticleElias: Nonregulation causes health insurance costs to increase
If taxes are defined as money that citizens must pay to avoid serious difficulties, then surely health insurance premiums are a kind of de facto tax.
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