Archives

This is the archive area for August 1999.

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

  • Volume 3, Number 4: August 2, 1999
      It's not quite clear when the honeymoon ended for California Gov. Gray Davis. Perhaps it was after he signed legislation to implement modest education reforms. Perhaps it was when he drew fire for launching a new round of secret negotiations to change the way HMOs are regulated.

  • Volume 3, Number 5: August 9, 1999
      The Year 2000 computer bug, known universally as the Y2K problem, is a fraud. You heard it here first.

  • Volume 3, Number 6: August 16, 1999
      In California politics, few subjects divide the average person from the political professional more than money. And nowhere is that division more clearly defined than in a complex case currently pending before the U.S. District Court in Sacramento.

  • Volume 3, Number 7: August 23, 1999
      Except for some politicians like Bill Clinton and Dianne Feinstein, nobody -- not the loggers, the business interests or the environmentalists -- particularly likes the Quincy Library Group plan, that quaintly named, federally approved strategy that governs timber harvesting on 2.4 million acres of Northern California's hinterland.

  • Volume 3, Number 8: August 30, 1999
      Forget politics for a moment.

      An era in California journalism ended recently in the hallways of 925 L Street, but few people saw it: the departure of the last of the "Unipressers."