Archives

This is the archive area for September 1998.

To read the issue in which you're interested, click on its date.

  • Volume 2, Number 9: September 7, 1998
      Labor Day is a holiday intended to provide a day of ease for the working person, but that doesn't apply to politicians: In California, Labor Day is the traditional startup for the general election campaigns, and politicians spent their day frantically scurrying across the state in a dash for votes.

  • Volume 2, Number 10: September 14, 1998
      September usually is a tense time in California's Capitol, and this year is no exception: Hundreds of bills await action on Republican Gov. Pete Wilson's desk, bills that may exert a profound impact on the political futures of the lawmakers who authored them and on the governor's own political legacy.

  • Volume 2, Number 11: September 21, 1998
      The deepening sex-politics scandal stemming from President Clinton's conduct with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky may seem remote from California politics. But it may actually have a significant impact on the races this year for the state's two top offices, the governorship and the U.S. Senate.

  • Volume 2, Number 12: September 28, 1998
      The public isn't aware of it, but there is a long tradition in Sacramento that important news often happens on Friday evenings. That's particularly true with major announcements by the bureaucracy and decisions by the governor on controversial bills.