This is the archive area for May 1999.
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Volume 2, Number 43: May 3, 1999
The developing rift between Gov. Gray Davis and
Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is assuming the dimensions of a serious
political problem indeed for the governor. Not since Jerry Brown and
Mike Curb clashed over judicial appointments two decades ago have a
governor and lieutenant governor been at such odds.
Volume 2, Number 44: May 10, 1999
Six years ago, California approved a massive
overhaul in its workers compensation insurance system, the far-flung
multibillion-dollar program that provides such benefits as medical
care and retraining to employees who suffer job-related injuries.
Volume 2, Number 45: May 17, 1999
After 16 years, California's Agricultural Labor
Relations Board is back.
Volume 2, Number 46: May 24, 1999
A cliche, but true: Water is the lifeblood of
California politics.
And the latest critical skirmish in California's water wars does not
involve the authority of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California or water quality in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta,
although both those issues have received widespread attention.
Volume 2, Number 47: May 31, 1999
The northern pike may be a prized game fish in
the Midwest, but in California the aggressive predator is anathema to
the state Fish and Game Department, which says the lean-jawed fish
could devastate California's salmon and trout fisheries if left
unchecked.
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