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Salon.com July 31, 2001 William Bradley |
Gray Davis' Edison problem The governor struggles to orchestrate a multimillion-dollar bailout of the utility that has spent big bucks on his campaign... |
Salon.com January 30, 2001 Anthony York |
The deregulation debacle Who's responsible for for California's electricity crisis? Everyone... |
Salon.com May 28, 2001 Anthony York |
California reaming While Dick Cheney continues to blame the state's energy crisis on its Democratic governor, President Bush makes a rare visit. Can the oil patch kids ever solve their California problem? |
Salon.com January 17, 2001 Anthony York |
Power politics California Democrats are trying to buy electricity to sell to state utilities, but Republicans and energy companies are crying foul... |
Salon.com June 1, 2001 William Bradley |
The unlikely populist California's Gray Davis is scoring political points by bashing Bush and "greedy" Texas energy firms, but the cautious centrist probably won't become the scourge of the energy industry... |
Salon.com June 21, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Gray Davis goes electric The California governor brings his Bush-bashing act to Washington... |
Reason June 2001 Michael W. Lynch & Adrian Moore |
Power Tripped Faulty re-regulation turns out the lights in the Golden State... |
Knowledge@Wharton |
PG&E: A Utility Struggles to Adapt to the Information Age Pacific Gas and Electric Company may be an ancient dinosaur, but one of its problems is too much technology. That is, too many scattered information technology systems that don't talk to one another. |
Salon.com March 13, 2001 Anthony York |
On the road again Pushing his campaign-finance bill, McCain swings through California. But Bush is out there too, and this time he's getting all the press... |
Salon.com April 7, 2001 Anthony York |
Bruce Brugmann's moment of glory California's energy crisis is a long-awaited vindication for the feisty publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian... |
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Anthony York |
Gray turns green -- with cash Building more prisons, doling out pork and refusing to rethink the death penalty, California Gov. Gray Davis is confounding friends and enemies with his relentless pursuit of the middle. |
Reason June 2001 Carolyn Lochhead |
Electrifying Performances California's senators' responses to the energy crisis... |
Salon.com February 14, 2001 Anthony York |
Energy vultures California's electricity crisis could have been avoided if profiteering power-generating companies hadn't blocked further deregulation.... |
Reason December 2005 Bradley A. Smith |
John McCain's War on Political Speech How the Arizona senator and other campaign finance reformers use the law to muffle critics and trample the First Amendment. |
Salon.com June 19, 2001 Joe Conason |
Take it public The failure of energy deregulation should make us reconsider blind faith in the market -- and take a second look at public power systems like the one that lights up Hollywood... |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 |
Robert Glynn During the energy deregulation boom of the late 1990s, PG&E Corp. Chairman and CEO Robert D. Glynn Jr. made several strategic bets that didn't pan out. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation |
Reason May 2007 David Weigel |
More Money, No Problem The death of taxpayer-financed campaigns: Taking the money out of campaigns is supposed to clean up politics; the fact that 2008 might become the first $1 billon presidential campaign is considered a sign of a broken democracy. |
Bank Technology News August 2004 John Adams |
Political Contribution Management: Arnold Webifies His War Chest A subtle nugget of the California Governor's political prowess is his campaign's use of contribution-management technology -- which could lead to an advanced way of managing election finance. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Abuse of Power: How Manipulative Trading Undermined Energy Deregulation At its height, Enron dominated -- and arguably even helped create -- the energy trading industry. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that Enron's demise is creating as many waves as its successes. |
Salon.com July 14, 2000 Anthony York |
Was the McCain mention a slip-up? And what's with the Bush-Keating stickers? And Ridge? They all seem more "spine-tingling" than what Gore has to work with. |
Reason October 2001 Sara Rimensnyder |
Source There's been one big winner in California's much-reviled, phony electricity deregulation plan: Los Angeles' publicly owned Department of Water and Power... |
InternetNews February 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Tech Backed Kerry in 2004 After donating a majority of its funds to Bush in 2000, high tech's political donations went with Kerry in the last election. |
BusinessWeek June 4, 2007 Aaron Pressman |
New Spark In Utility Stocks Why the once-staid utility sector is generating breathtaking returns. |
Salon.com November 9, 2001 Andrew Leonard |
Enron, we hardly knew ye Ironically, only one thing could have saved the now-imploding corporate poster child for deregulation: Tougher regulations requiring more financial "transparency"... |
BusinessWeek April 30, 2007 Javers & Dunham |
Candidates' Stupid Accounting Tricks Political campaigns, like corporations, sometimes play games with their financial reports. |
BusinessWeek March 17, 2011 Jonathan D. Salant |
The Republican Money Primary Begins Republican Presidential hopefuls haven't declared their candidacies, but the competition for top fundraisers, known as bundlers, has begun. |
BusinessWeek July 8, 2010 Elgin & Palmeri |
Steve Peace: California Revolutionary The man who is changing the way California -- and possibly the rest of the country -- elects its leaders is a political maverick with an eccentric legacy in both Sacramento and Hollywood. |
Finance & Development September 1, 2001 John E. Besant-Jones & Bernard Tenenbaum |
Lessons from California's Power Crisis Clearly, what happened in California was not what was planned. It is not surprising that policymakers around the world are now asking questions... |
Managed Care September 1999 Bob Carlson |
Businesses Brace for Premium Hikes as Reform Fever Strikes California California will soon enact its first batch of health care laws in over a decade.... |
Salon.com November 7, 2000 Katharine Mieszkowski |
This election is brought to you by... Corporations lavished more money than ever before on this year's political campaigns. So who stands to benefit? |
AFP eWire February 4, 2014 |
Your Crowd Funding Campaign as an Action Movie As one of the hottest and most innovative methods of fundraising on the scene today, Robert Osborne shows how creating your crowd-funding campaign like an action movie will steal the audience's attention, and inspire them to give. |
AFP eWire January 8, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (January 8, 2013) 6 Ways Brands Can Leverage Google Plus Communities... Show, Tell and Involve: Fundraising Fundamentals for a New Era of Philanthropy... 7 ways to increase your nonprofit's donations... |
The Motley Fool December 16, 2004 Jim Mueller |
PG&E's Dividend At first glance, Pacific Gas & Electric seems to be using debt to finance its recently announced dividend. Say it isn't so! But don't jump to conclusions. Consumers and shareholders win on this deal. |
BusinessWeek May 22, 2006 Richard S. Dunham |
Courting Politicians on the Sly The ban on corporate contributions hasn't completely eliminated companies' influence. Here are two loopholes. |
AFP eWire May 23, 2005 |
Nonprofit Seeks to Encourage Utility Philanthropy The Utility Customers Charitable Trust is urging utility companies to begin Round Up programs that could ultimately lead to $1 billion a year in charitable giving. |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
A Shadowy Risk for Shareholders Activist investors could push corporations to disclose political campaign donations. |
Fast Company May 2009 Anya Kamenetz |
UC Davis's Energy Efficiency Center Makes Conservation Sexy Professor Andrew Hargadon believes energy efficiency can be sexy -- and he's winning fans at Chevron, Samsung, and Wal-Mart, and in Silicon Valley. |
Entrepreneur February 2004 Dian Vujovich |
Power Play Utility stocks have gone back to basics. |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 |
Power: Keep The Candles Handy -- And Light A Few For the power sector, 2003 will be remembered as the year the lights went out. To avoid another blackout like the one that darkened big chunks of Canada and the U.S. in August, the industry will work harder this year. |
BusinessWeek June 4, 2007 Richard S. Dunham |
Execs On The Sidelines With no clear front-runner, few bosses are betting on GOP hopefuls. |
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Mark Hertsgaard |
The California chainsaw massacre Clear-cutting is tearing up forests in the nation's most environmentally aware state, and opponents blame the timber industry's ties to Gov. Gray Davis. |
Reason November 2003 Matt Welch |
Golden Bear? California's surprising economy Did former California governor Gray Davis ruin California's economy? Several recent studies, academic and journalistic, suggest not, though there are storm clouds on the horizon. |
AFP eWire December 3, 2007 |
2007 Donations Good So Far, But What About the Holidays? A new survey shows that giving in the first nine months of 2007 was strong. However, will the U.S. housing crisis and overall economic conditions across North America affect giving in the last quarter of the year? |
ifeminists October 22, 2002 Sacks & Thompson |
California Governor Davis Preserves and Protects Paternity Fraud California Governor Gray Davis had the chance to free thousands of falsely condemned men last week. He chose federal funds instead. |
CIO May 15, 2001 Heather Harreld |
What a Switch! Before deregulation, utilities didn't have to worry about customer service. Now they do. But buying CRM software won't do the trick... |
Civil War Times January 2008 David J. Eicher |
Coming Apart From the Inside: How Internal Strife Brought Down the Confederacy In addition to combating Northern armies, the president of the Confederate States of America battled his congress, his generals and his own vice president. |
Inc. December 2003 Adam Hanft |
Grist: Do you have the Schwarzenedge? Besides being governor-elect of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a metaphor for the triumph of entrepreneurism. |
Reason February 2005 Matt Welch |
Three Strikes, Out? Since felonies in California include shoplifting and minor drug possession, cases of disproportionate punishment have become commonplace since the three-strikes law was passed. |
U.S. Banker January 2002 Robert A. Bennett |
Put the Reins on Passion Lenders and investors were so caught up in Enron's philosophy that they were blind to reality... |