Archives

This is the archive area for January 2000.

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

  • Volume 3, Number 26: January 3, 2000
      The wonderful thing about the argument over the Y2K "bug" is the circular logic explicit on both sides.

  • Volume 3, Number 27: January 10, 2000
      The public couldn't care less, but to political junkies, reporters and ranking bureaucrats, the time-honored procedure known as selective leaking is, when it's done effectively, a beautiful thing to watch. That's what happened during the weekend.

  • Volume 3, Number 28: January 17, 2000
      People are often confused by California's budget, and it's easy to see why.

  • Volume 3, Number 29: January 24, 2000
      A great irony of California politics is that the state that cradled the global computer revolution balked for years at putting politicians' campaign spending and contribution reports online.

  • Volume 3, Number 30: January 31, 2000
      This spring, the new speaker of the California Assembly will be Robert M. Hertzberg, a congenial, energetic and obscure Los Angeles-area lawmaker who has been in Sacramento three years. His selection to an office that was once the second-most powerful among state officials after the governor is ample evidence that speakership is, quite simply, not what it used to be.