NEWS
By JAMES P. PINKERTON | June 12, 1995
High above Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles nests th three-room headquarters for the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI). Looking out the 14th-floor window, a visitor notices a lush green golf course across the street.''That's the Hillcrest Country Club,'' explains Joe Gelman, the 35-year-old campaign manager for the CCRI, which, if passed by California voters next year, would wipe out government-sponsored racial and gender preferences in the Golden State.As recorded in Neil Gabler's ''An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood,'' Hillcrest was founded by the Los Angeles Jewish community in 1920, when the existing country clubs were WASP-only preserves.
FEATURES
By McClatchy News Service | February 20, 1994
Have no fear that California ever will become "normal" or "boring" -- at least so far as its tourism advertising is concerned.Recently the state kicked off a $3 million nationwide television-and-print ad campaign geared to polish California's tarnished image as a vacation destination. Developed under contract with the J. Walter Thompson agency in San Francisco, the campaign includes as a component a new, toll-free telephone number -- (800) GO-CALIF ([800] 462-2543) -- that consumers can call to receive any of four "travel tip sheets" within minutes via fax machine.
NEWS
By JACK GERMOND & JULES WITCOVER | November 2, 1993
LOS ANGELES -- When the California Legislature recently advanced the date of the state's 1996 presidential primary from June to March, the chief beneficiary was widely seen to be President Clinton.In 1992, candidate Bill Clinton won the Golden State handily and his approval rating here has been higher than in most other states. He has returned here often and has appeared to take a special interest in lifting California out of the depths of its recession, to the point of naming Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown to oversee federal efforts to enhance its economic recovery.
NEWS
By NEAL R. PEIRCE | May 24, 1993
Washington. -- If today's California is any measure of where the other 49 states are headed on the immigration issue, stormy seas lie ahead.The tide of immigration, legal and illegal, flooding across the once-Golden State is tossing up a political backlash of some proportions and raising some deep and troublesome questions about the American character, and where the country may be headed.California's population is expanding by some 700,000 people a year, mostly immigrants, some 100,000 of them illegal.
NEWS
By Ellen J. Silberman | January 9, 1993
WASHINGTON -- A decision this week by the Environmental Protection Ageency (EPA) clears the way for Maryland and other Northeastern states to combat the region's smog problems by requiring more stringent controls on auto and truck exhaust than the federal law requires, state air quality officials said yesterday.The EPA, after several months' delay, Thursday granted California a waiver from the 1990 Clean Air Act, allowing the state with the worst pollution problems in the country to impose the nation's toughest emission standards on new cars and trucks, starting with model year 1994.
NEWS
May 18, 1992
It certainly would seem that way. One calamity after another has hit the Golden State. Earthquakes. Firestorms. Prolonged drought. Intense smog. Unreal traffic gridlock. Recession. And now massive urban rioting. California seems to be under a perpetual state of siege.Yet for millions, California remains the land of opportunity. A vast tidal wave of Asian and Latino immigrants has swelled the population to 30 million, with another 650,000 people arriving each year. They are placing a strain on a state government already on the verge of breakdown.
NEWS
By GEORGE F. WILL | September 28, 1992
Los Angeles. -- In June 1991, as California was in the throes of its annual budget war, a Democratic state legislator scoffed at the idea that the impending tax increase -- the largest in the history of any state -- would cause businesses to flee California. Oh sure, he said, ''They're going to take all those yachts from Newport Harbor and move them to Tonopah, Nevada.''Try Tucson. That is where the Hughes company is taking 4,500 jobs. When considering relocation of its missile-building operation, Hughes compared Arizona and California regarding about 50 factors -- taxes, regulatory burden, utility rates, labor costs, housing, etc. -- and decided Arizona was superior in all but two categories.
NEWS
By Jules Witcover | May 17, 1992
LOS ANGELES -- A large rooftop billboard looking down at the Bill Clinton state campaign headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard proclaims: "A Race Even a Democrat Can Win."The sign does not, however, refer to this year's presidential race, but rather is an advertisement for the Hollywood Park racetrack -- an ad that mocks the Democratic reputation for losing, as in the string of five defeats in the last six presidential elections.Mr. Clinton hopes to demonstrate he has the support to buck that sorry record by winning the final major primary on the 1992 political track here in California on June 2. Ordinarily a candidate so far ahead in delegates at this time -- 1,824.
NEWS
By Jack Germond & Jules Witcover ZTC | July 31, 1992
WASHINGTON -- The latest opinion poll numbers from California -- in which Democratic nominee Bill Clinton leads President Bush 62 percent to 28 percent -- have hit the 1992 campaign with explosive force. It is suddenly clear to everyone that the president is in serious trouble.California is a special case in the political arithmetic this year: 54 electoral votes, one-fifth of the 270 needed to win the election. From the outset, the conventional wisdom in both parties is that it is a "must win" state for Clinton, and now the new Mervin Field poll indicates he has an excellent chance of winning it.The poll had a particular impact, however, because it is the latest in a series of surveys showing Clinton leading Bush all over the country, although not everywhere by such bizarre 34-point margins.
SPORTS
By Special to The Sun | November 26, 1991
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Brian Hendrick scored 15 of his game-high 25 points in the first half, as California built a 55-24 halftime lead en route to a 97-50 victory over Morgan State last night.California (2-0) took control of the game by forcing Morgan State (0-3) to commit 13 first-half turnovers and out-rebounding it, 35-18. Morgan State made eight of 34 shots (23.5 percent) in the first half.Ural Hogans scored 12 points and Charles Feagin added 10 for Morgan State, which shot 29 percent from the floor.