{"id":349,"date":"2006-04-18T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=349"},"modified":"2006-04-18T08:41:48","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T16:41:48","slug":"prop-71-funding-oversight-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/04\/18\/prop-71-funding-oversight-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop 71 funding &#8211; Oversight Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_04_18_simpson.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_04_18_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/2004\/04.22\/photos\/8-stemresearch4_450.jpg\" alt=\"stem cell research\" \/><em>GUEST: John M. Simpson, the Stem-cell Project Director for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Proposition 71, the Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, was passed by Californian voters in November 2004. The proposition allocates three billion dollars of taxpayers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 money for the public funding of stem cell research. But the language of the proposition omitted public accountability and transparency protections. Some biotech firm executives have scoffed at public-interest proposals that would put oversight conditions on research grants. Meanwhile, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a California based non-profit consumer watchdog group, has called for for full public disclosure, and the strengthening of conflict of interests rules for members who advise the stem cell oversight committee. <\/p>\n<p>For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerwatchdog.org\">www.consumerwatchdog.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonali\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Subversive Thought for the Day: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by un-intermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Wendell Phillips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: John M. Simpson, the Stem-cell Project Director for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. Proposition 71, the Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, was passed by Californian voters in November 2004. The proposition allocates three billion dollars of taxpayers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 money for the public funding of stem cell research. But the language of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}