This is the archive area for November 1998.
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Volume 2, Number 17: November 2, 1998
If the polls are accurate -- a very big "if" --
California will experience a profound political change as a result of
the election this week: For the first time in more than two decades,
Democrats may simultaneously control the state's top three offices --
the governorship and the two U.S. Senate seats. They also are likely
to retain control of both houses of the Legislature.
Volume 2, Number 18: November 9, 1998
As Republicans lick their wounds after the worst
GOP electoral showing in California in 40 years, the big question in
Sacramento, for Democrats and Republicans alike, is "What happens
now?"
Volume 2, Number 19: November 16, 1998
The new governor hasn't even taken office yet,
and already people in California -- and across the country -- are
looking ahead to 2000. To Capitol watchers, two critical things happen
that year: The federal government will release the newest census
figures, and in March California will hold a presidential primary.
Volume 2, Number 20: November 23, 1998
A major political war is shaping up in the
Capitol this year over an issue that has been at the heart of the
state's history since the state was founded 150 years ago -- water.
Volume 2, Number 21: November 30, 1998
The long-standing political struggle between two
of California's most powerful special interests, the trial lawyers and
the insurers, has been largely dormant for the past two years. That's
because the insurers' ally, Republican Gov. Pete Wilson, generally
could be counted on to veto anything the Democrat-ruled Legislature,
the lawyers' ally, sent to his desk. The result: a tense political
standoff.
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