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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Report details price-gouging tactics by Big Pharma

  Eric Galatas, reporter/producer, Colorado News Connection, a bureau of Public News Service.   As advocacy groups take a victory lap for moving lawmakers to finally allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices for ten widely used medicines, a new report detailed how the makers of those drugs have gouged billions of taxpayer and consumer dollars. Kyle Herrig, senior adviser for the […]
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Recent hearing on CA retail theft draws diverse views

By Suzanne Potter Reporter/Producer, California News Service, a bureau of Public News Service.   California lawmakers are considering a range of options to combat a rise over the last two years of felony retail theft – large-scale shoplifting – and held the latest in a series of hearings in West Hollywood last Friday, February 9. The State Assembly Select Committee […]