Archives

This is the archive area for July 1999.

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

  • Volume 2, Number 52: July 5, 1999
      One of the first major environmental tests of Gov. Gray Davis' administration is going to take place this week at the Board of Forestry, an obscure, nine-member panel that sets policy for logging regulation in California.

  • Volume 3, Number 1: July 12, 1999
      Two of Gov. Gray Davis' most powerful and committed constituencies during his campaign for governor last year, organized labor and the trial lawyers, are on a roll. One of labor's most cherished goals -- to restore overtime pay after eight hours of work -- has been approved by lawmakers and is on its way to Davis' desk for his likely signature.

  • Volume 3, Number 2: July 19, 1999
      The public's attention has been focused on education in recent months, and rightfully so. But behind the scenes at critical private meetings throughout the state, Gov. Gray Davis's administration has been trying to devise a plan to improve the way health management organizations, or HMOs in the vernacular, are regulated.

  • Volume 3, Number 3: July 26, 1999
      A Capitol wag once said that "voters are the weak link in a democracy" and when it comes to term limits, at least, he may have been right.