This is the archive area for August 1999.
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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."
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