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Are California’s electricity rates about to skyrocket?

De-focused electricity transmission towers in countryside at sunset, panoramic landscape. AChanPhoto, Shutterstock

by CAPITOL WEEKLY STAFF posted 11.06.2023

CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: Loretta Lynch, the former President of the California Public Utilities Commission is sounding the alarm on a proposed change to California’s commercial electricity providers’ rate structure that, she says, will dramatically increase rates for electricity customers. Now, Lynch and others are urging the CPUC to intervene before it’s too late.

California setting up statewide medical data-exchange grid

Doctors examining digital health data for their patient. (Photo: Ienetstan, via Shutterstock)

by SETH SANDRONSKY posted 04.04.2022

The health information exchange, or HIE, has received little public attention. But it would cover 40 million people in California’s 58 counties, and would in part quickly inform emergency room doctors and nurses of a patient’s medical history, e.g., a preexisting condition, before her care.