This is the archive area for May 2000.
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Volume 3, Number 43: May 1, 2000
For people who watch the state budget, May is a
special time of year in Sacramento. That's when the report known as
the "May Revise" is presented to the Legislature, and it is this
document -- not the budget plan unveiled in January by the governor
amid much public relations hoopla -- that determines billions of
dollars in spending for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
Volume 3, Number 44: May 8, 2000
For the past month, a political soap opera has
unfolded in Sacramento amid a barrage of news reports targeting
Insurance Commissioner Charles Quackenbush, one of California's
ranking Republicans.
Volume 3, Number 45: May 15, 2000
For a governor who consistently describes
himself as moderate, cautious and prudent, Gray Davis' proposal to
give California's public school teachers a permanent exemption from
the state income tax is truly remarkable, even radical. With one
gesture, the governor has entered uncharted fiscal and political
waters.
Volume 3, Number 46: May 22, 2000
This promises to be a very tough week indeed for
Insurance Commissioner Charles Quackenbush.
Volume 3, Number 47: May 29, 2000
Lost in the tumult over the political scandal
surrounding Insurance Commissioner Charles Quackenbush is a
little-known bill, a hijacked piece of legislation, that has the
potential to develop into one of the major insurance-related bills of
the year.
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