Recent Stories
Boxer In?
Senator Barbara Boxer has her Republican critics, but can one of them unseat her in 1998?
Of the many loaded expressions which have become a part of the modern political lexicon, few pack the emotional and intellectual gunpowder of the L-word: liberal. From the mouths of conservatives, the word "liberal" has ...
Powerful Turn-On
Deregulation is coming to California's power industry. WIll dollars be saved and the lights still go on when the switch is flicked?
Hidden somewhere within the San Francisco headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric Company is a room dominated by computers, whose monitors are blinking with a spaghetti of graphs, maps, spreadsheets, and other similarly constructed data. ...
People's Choice
State voters await a record number of initiatives in November, but what does that say about us?
No history of California politics over the last three decades would be complete without a place of honor for that most common of household items, the ironing board. This issue of the Weekly was published ...
