Archives

This is the archive area for October 1999.

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

  • Volume 3, Number 13: October 4, 1999
      With all the attention on presidential candidates, one major political campaign in California is developing in near obscurity -- the race for the U.S. Senate. Too bad: This could be an interesting fight.

  • Volume 3, Number 14: October 11, 1999
      It won't appear on any ballot, but one of the hottest political issues next year is reapportionment, that once-a-decade redrawing of congressional and legislative districts to account for shifts in population.

  • Volume 3, Number 15: October 18, 1999
      An odd constitutional issue is developing over a fee that California has charged out-of-state motorists for the past decade. Called a "smog-impact fee," the $300-per-vehicle charge has been levied against hundreds of thousands of drivers. The problem is, the state's own appeals court says the fee is unconstitutional.

  • Volume 3, Number 16: October 25, 1999
      The perception of Gov. Gray Davis by the California media is strikingly different from the perception of the governor by the national media. How come?