Archives

This is the archive area for January 1998.

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  • Volume 1, Number 26: January 5, 1998
      Politics is the art of compromise, but governance is the art of spending money. This week in Sacramento, Californians will get to see one of the state's premier artists at work -- Gov. Pete Wilson.

  • Volume 1, Number 27: January 12, 1998
      Many of the critical decisions affecting California government during the past decade have been made not in the state Capitol, the seat of government for 33 million people, but in a nondescript, squat building three blocks away -- the federal courthouse.

  • Volume 1, Number 28: January 19, 1998
      When the first leaks came from the Capitol Thursday evening that Sen. John Burton had put together enough votes to become leader of the Senate, it seemed too improbable to be true.

  • Volume 1, Number 29: January 26, 1998
      At the top of the ticket this election year, California Democrats are in real trouble: The withdrawal of frontrunner U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein from the governor's race struck the party like a bombshell and has all but assured the election of conservative Republican Dan Lungren in November.