Can The Sacramento Bee drive public attendance at tomorrow's meeting of the California stem cell agency?
The Bee editorialized this morning about the meeting, suggesting readers might like to attend. The session will contain “drama” and might be “extremely telling,” the newspaper said.
Rivalries could be exposed that “sit beneath the surface of the institute's oversight board, which includes hypercompetitive university officials, biotech industrialists and advocates for various patient groups,” The Bee said. “Those rivalries got a bit ugly in May, when the institute held a beauty contest to decide its headquarters. San Francisco became the queen - and a lovely one, to be sure - but some said the contest was rigged.
“There are also some side dramas to watch. Months ago, institute chairman Robert Klein II prepared an organizational chart that gave him his own exclusive staff, including the institute's general counsel. Board members objected; the chart was shelved. Now, interim president Zach Hall is preparing to unveil a new organizational chart that gives the president more control over his employees.”
As far as we can recall, this is the first time that a newspaper has urged the public to attend a meeting of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. But despite the comic opera of Arnold Vs. The Legislative Ants, life is generally slow in the Big Tomato.
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