Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week, Jarvis' triumphantly successful Proposition 13 goes into effect, with its more than $7 billion slash in revenues from property taxes. As a select committee of six of the state legislature's most powerful members worked feverishly on a rescue plan, thousands of lobbyists flocked to Sacramento to apply pressure...
...brigade of disabled workers and people handicapped from birth parked their wheelchairs outside the hearing room in the Sacramento capitol in a quiet plea that their welfare aid not be reduced. Leaders of powerful police and fire fighters' lobbies jammed the committee chamber. So did the state's influential teacher and school lobbyists. Committee Member Leo McCarthy, speaker of the state assembly, passed up so many meals as the deadline neared that he had a severe allergic reaction to energy-sustaining almonds and had to be temporarily hospitalized. Select Committee Chairman Al Rodda, a mild-mannered former college...
...bearer of these tidings is A. transmontanus, the big Pacific sturgeon. A sister under the skin to the Black Sea species, it runs naturally up California's Sacramento River. (In the 19th century, sturgeon were so plentiful in East Coast rivers that the U.S. exported vast quantities of caviar to Europe.) These overlooked aristocrats have been extracted from the stream by the University of California at Davis, which plans to breed them in vast ponds like those used in the South to grow the plebeian catfish. The Le Carre element enters with Serge Doroshov, 42, who helped develop...
...only major country that's below us is Japan." As Heller sees it, the California revolt reflects local circumstances, including California's booming real estate market and Governor Jerry Brown's delay in promoting tax reductions. Recalls Heller: "Several of us economists were invited to Sacramento in the summer of 1975, and we told Brown that there would be revenues running out of his ears by the time the economy went back up the recovery path. He didn't believe us, didn't plan for it and piled up the state budget surpluses. With local...
...right, let the new boys figure that out. They're already talking about building a bus terminal for little old gambling ladies from Sacramento and San Jose. I didn't know there were 1,500 old ladies a day in the whole country. And what...