From Conflicts of Interest to Unfilled Promises: LA Times Columnist Lambastes CIRM

California's largest circulation newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, was the stage this week for a broadside concerning the failings of the $3 billion California stem cell agency.

Among other things, the June 7 column by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, said CIRM

• "...(H)as always displayed a curious lack of vision about its own responsibilities,"

• Has …