This is the archive area for February 2000.
To read the issue in which you're interested, click on its date.
Volume 3, Number 31: February 7, 2000
Exercising one's right to vote often is not
easy: The choices can be confusing, the issues clouded, the timing
inconvenient and the ballot complicated. The presidential primary
election coming up in a month, laughably called an "open" primary,
adds a new layer of confusion -- the selection of delegates to the
national conventions that will choose the major parties' nominees.
Volume 3, Number 32: February 14, 2000
Workers compensation insurance is an
eye-glazing, mind-numbing topic to most people, but it is already
developing in the Capitol into one of the hot-button issues of the
year.
Volume 3, Number 33: February 21, 2000
It is difficult to understand how a politician
who has demonstrated so cannily over the years the ability to
communicate his message to the public has allowed his communications
and press relations as governor to get so fouled up. But that's
exactly what Gray Davis has done, and the latest fiasco involving
Willie Brown's appointment to the state employees retirement board
leaves Capitol observers scratching their heads.
Volume 3, Number 34: February 28, 2000
The conventional wisdom is that the health of
California's economy determines, to a large degree, whether voters
approve major bond issues on the statewide ballot. When times are
good, the reasoning goes, such bond measures win approval; when times
are bad, they are voted down.
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