This is the archive area for September 1999.
To read the issue in which you're interested, click on its date.
Volume 3, Number 9: September 6, 1999
The word "referendum" rarely is used in any
serious context in the state Capitol.
But this year the word -- and all that it entails -- is starting to be
seriously considered as the trial lawyers and the insurance industry
square off over the lawyers' attempt to restore the right of accident
victims to file bad-faith lawsuits against their rivals' insurance
companies.
Volume 3, Number 10: September 13, 1999
In the frenetic atmosphere of the final days of
the Legislature last week, when such weighty issues as HMO liability,
sexual discrimination and workers' benefits were being decided, Gov.
Gray Davis vetoed an obscure bill and offered a telling view of his
relationship with the media.
Volume 3, Number 11: September 20, 1999
It's always a delight when government works
right -- something that happens, by the way, more often than mouthy
political pundits would have you believe -- and that's exactly what's
going on right now at the Secretary of State's office with the
creation of a new Internet site that beginning in January will give
the public electronic access to the campaign spending reports of
California's legislators and constitutional officers.
Volume 3, Number 12: September 27, 1999
Amid much hoopla and the felicitations of fellow
Democratic politicians, Gov. Gray Davis this week will sign
legislation to overhaul the way the state regulates health maintenance
organizations, or HMOs, in what his administration describes as
sweeping, consumer-friendly changes.
|