This is the archive area for January 1999.
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Volume 2, Number 26: January 4, 1999
It's time to discuss a peculiar Sacramento
institution called "bumping." Voters never hear about it, the public
never reads about it, but "bumping" is a crucial part of life in
state offices when there is a change of administrations.
Volume 2, Number 27: January 11, 1999
A state budget blueprint typically is a
reflection of the governor who proposes it, and nowhere is that more
true than in the case of Gov. Gray Davis' 1999-2000 spending plan. The
budget, like the governor, is cautious, unexciting, prudent, centrist
and predictable.
Volume 2, Number 28: January 18, 1999
The U.S. Census Bureau is running out of time.
Sacramento normally figures in the news because of something that
happens in the state Capitol, or because of court decisions here
affecting millions of Californians.
Volume 2, Number 29: January 25, 1999
Just over two years ago, California and the
federal government agreed in concept to buy thousands of acres of
timber in Humboldt County -- including groves of ancient redwoods in
an area known as the Headwaters Forest -- and turn the land into a
public preserve.
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