This is the archive area for November 1999.
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Volume 3, Number 17: November 1, 1999
If there were a contest to pick the most sacred
cow in California politics, the hands-down winner would be Proposition
13, the tax-reform initiative voters approved overwhelmingly in 1978
that altered fundamentally the ability of state and local governments
to collect money to pay for public services.
Volume 3, Number 18: November 8, 1999
The era of the atomic spies, Red baiting and
McCarthyism have long since passed, but the images of those years are
being reawakened with the state's release of thousands of pages of
documents from the files of a now-defunct legislative committee that
probed the private lives of Californians for more than three decades.
Volume 3, Number 19: November 15, 1999
An interesting question has developed in the
state Capitol about a procedure that rarely draws the media's
attention -- the executive order.
Volume 3, Number 20: November 22, 1999
One of the great ironies of Capitol politics is
that it is almost as difficult to spend a surplus of money as it is to
make cuts. Gov. Gray Davis is going to find this out in seven weeks
when he unveils the first state budget completely written by his own
administration.
Volume 3, Number 21: November 29, 1999
To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, it's impossible to
underestimate the intelligence of television news, and the pathetic
display of so-called news coverage by Southern California stations
during the weekend of a deadly freeway chase is ample evidence --
again -- of that fundamental truth.
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