Common Cause Magazine articles

Recent articles from Common Cause Magazine

Virginia is for givers.(Trigon Blue Cross Blue Shield; political and public relations behavior)(No Sacred Cows)
March 22, 1996... The wrongfully accused often ask, "Where do I go to get back my reputation?" Maybe they should go to Virginia, where they might not have lost it in the first place. Take Trigon, Virginia's Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance firm. Trigon's press clippings from the past year look like a...

Energy on tour.(Energy Sec. Hazel O'Leary's excesssive world travel)(No Sacred Cows)
March 22, 1996... Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary may have provided Democrats and Republicans with an example of unnecessary government spending they can actually agree on: T-shirts featuring a globe encircled by the words "O'Leary's World Tour." According to Brett Coulson, an aide to Rep. Martin Hoke (R-Ohio),...

Free speech, costly campaigns.(Indiana state politics virtually unregulated)(No Sacred Cows)
March 22, 1996... With press coverage of special-interest politics on the rise, what's a politician to do when confronted with a damaging expose? Indiana state Sen. Harold "Potch" Wheeler (R) decided to hit back. In January he introduced a bill that would have charged the media for their use of office...

Medicaid fare-ness.(unpaid Medicaid transportation vouchers)(No Sacred Cows)
March 22, 1996... James MaCauley keeps $1,200 worth of Medicaid vouchers in a briefcase in the trunk of his taxicab. He's been waiting since November for the District of Columbia to pay him for the vouchers. The stack represents the hundreds of times MaCauley has taken a Medicaid patient to the hospital and has...

The high-court high life.(lavish US district court conference/junkets)(No Sacred Cows)
March 22, 1996... The Hotel Del Coronado sits on a peninsula just off San Diego, attached by a narrow strip of land called the "Silver Strand." It's a hotel compound where 14 presidents have stayed and where Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series. In West Virginia the Greenbrier and the Homestead...