Archives

This is the archive area for June 1999.

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  • Volume 2, Number 48: June 7, 1999
      It's usually foolhardy to say something is proceeding smoothly in the California Capitol, but this year's negotiations over the $80 billion-plus state budget actually appear on track. Our fingers are crossed.

  • Volume 2, Number 49: June 14, 1999
      Rumors are intensifying in the state Capitol of a move to oust Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa. And nowhere is that hackneyed cliche, "Where there's smoke there's fire," more true than in California's Capitol, where a run at the speakership takes on an air of high entertainment and intrigue on an Elizabethan scale.

  • Volume 2, Number 50: June 21, 1999
      Few subjects bore the public more than the intricacies of delegate selection to the national political conventions, but the decision made last week by California Republicans to dismantle their "winner-take-all" primary for March 2000 deserves a close look.

  • Volume 2, Number 51: June 28, 1999
      Another step forward in California's interminable water wars has been taken by the group known as CalFed, but it's difficult for a layman to say whether this step is truly significant or whether it represents more of the same.