The California Nurses Association offered congratulations to Gov.-elect Jerry Brown and returning U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer for their impressive, double-digit election wins, and to California voters for providing a national alternative to the conservative, corporate-oriented economic program that...
Health Insurers Finally Get Some Oversight The Wall Street Journal If critics really want to go back to the days when insurance companies ran wild with no accountability, they should have the courage to say so openly instead of hiding behind distracting attacks. In the meantime, we're going to...
Although the economy and jobs have been the "foremost" issues in California's Senate race, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) is "intent on highlighting the distinction" between her views on abortion rights and those of her Republican opponent, Carly Fiorina, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports. According...
A large majority of California's likely voters support abortion rights, including most Republicans and people who intend to vote for GOP candidates in the upcoming gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections, according to a Field Poll released Wednesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The...
The Los Angeles Times: Leslie Margolin, the president of California's Anthem Blue Cross, is resigning. "During her 2 1/2-year tenure at the helm of California's largest for-profit insurer, Margolin tried to cast Anthem as a responsible corporate leader that cared for customers and sought to...
During a campaign stop in Sacramento on Wednesday, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer (Calif.) said Republican challenger Carly Fiorina's views on abortion rights and other issues are too extreme for California residents, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports. Boxer -- who is seeking her fourth Senate...
"The dual nomination of Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina for governor and U.S. Senate in the [California] Republican primary was a historic event, but the candidates' gender is unlikely to help them much in the November election," California political reporters Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine...
"The dual nomination of Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina for governor and U.S. Senate in the [California] Republican primary was a historic event, but the candidates' gender is unlikely to help them much in the November election," California political reporters Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine...
"The dual nomination of Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina for governor and U.S. Senate in the [California] Republican primary was a historic event, but the candidates' gender is unlikely to help them much in the November election," California political reporters Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine...
"The dual nomination of Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina for governor and U.S. Senate in the [California] Republican primary was a historic event, but the candidates' gender is unlikely to help them much in the November election," California political reporters Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine...
"The dual nomination of Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina for governor and U.S. Senate in the [California] Republican primary was a historic event, but the candidates' gender is unlikely to help them much in the November election," California political reporters Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine...
The Associated Press/San Jose Mercury News: A $15 million Medicare fraud case in California has ended as the last of 17 defendants was sentenced this week to 30 months in prison. "The U.S. attorney's office says Medicare patients at board and care homes throughout Southern California were...
The Susan B. Anthony List has launched an advertising campaign against Tom Campbell, a Republican abortion-rights supporter who is seeking the party's nomination to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) in California's Senate race this fall, the Los Angeles Times reports. Marjorie Dannenfelser...
The Los Angeles Times on Monday profiled Dave Wilkinson, an evangelical pastor who runs three Ventura County, Calif., pregnancy clinics that try to urge women not to have abortions. Once weekly, Wilkinson and other antiabortion-rights advocates drive to Los Angeles in a donated motor home to...
The Los Angeles Times on Monday profiled Dave Wilkinson, an evangelical pastor who runs three Ventura County, Calif., pregnancy clinics that try to urge women not to have abortions. Once weekly, Wilkinson and other antiabortion-rights advocates drive to Los Angeles in a donated motor home to...
The Los Angeles Times on Monday profiled Dave Wilkinson, an evangelical pastor who runs three Ventura County, Calif., pregnancy clinics that try to urge women not to have abortions. Once weekly, Wilkinson and other antiabortion-rights advocates drive to Los Angeles in a donated motor home to...
California governors of the past two decades "deserve praise for funding a wide array of programs aimed at combating teen births," a Sacramento Bee editorial states. The editorial notes that California is "bucking a national trend" of rising teen births. The number of births to California teens...
California governors of the past two decades "deserve praise for funding a wide array of programs aimed at combating teen births," a Sacramento Bee editorial states. The editorial notes that California is "bucking a national trend" of rising teen births. The number of births to California teens...
News outlets report on nursing workforce issues, including a push for an expanded role for nurse practitioners, supervision of nurse anesthetists and a trend toward delayed retirement. "Nursing leaders say large numbers of [nurse] practitioners ... will be needed to fill gaps in primary care...