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Citizens’ Utility Board (CUB)

December 1, 2025

The Citizens’ Utility Board, or CUB, is a model approach for bringing together large numbers of diffuse consumers into a voluntary organization, which can then pursue a common citizen/consumer agenda in banking, insurance, housing or dozens of other arenas. I call it the “silicon chip” for the citizen movement because it is a low-cost, high … Read more

Seven States Fail to Make Full Online Disclosures in State Contracting

May 14, 2009

State Government Contract Assessment A survey of the online availability of state government contracting information for all 50 states and the District of Columbia Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and Wyoming top a list of worst offenders in full online disclosure of state contracting information, according to a survey issued today by Ralph … Read more

Request for Comments and Data to Assist FDA in its Consideration of Agency-Regulated Products that May Contain Nanoscale Materials, Docket No. FDA-2008-N-0416

October 24, 2008

Nano Dear FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach: These comments to Docket No. FDA-2008-N-0416 are in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) August 7, 2008 notice of public meeting and request for comments. The meeting was organized, and the comments and data requested, to assist the agency in further implementing the recommendations of the … Read more

Undermining Safety: A Report on Coal Mine Safety

June 4, 2008

Undermining Safety

Time Running Out to Claim Largest Refund in U.S. History

April 9, 2007

  April 9, 2007 Center for the Study of Responsive Law (CSRL) Contact: Adam Tapley Tel. (202) 387-8070 Fax (202) 234-5176 Average Taxpayers and Small Businesses Owed Billions from Illegal Tax The Refund and How to Get It Billions of dollars of the largest refund in U.S. history have so far gone unclaimed by taxpayers … Read more

Innovation and Stagnation

June 4, 2006

Innovation

Defective Defense – How the Pentagon buys weapons that do not work

June 6, 1989

Defective Defense – How the Pentagon buys weapons that do not work

Report to U.S. Taxpayers on the savings and loan crisis

February 6, 1989

Report_to_Taxpayers_on_SandL_Crisis

Banding Together: How Check-Offs will revolutionize the Consumer Movement

September 6, 1981

Banding Together