Archives

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.