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1999 Stories by Harold Meyerson

• My Favorite New Year’s

  published December 30, 1999

  A personal history of the ‘60s Talk about your sound and fury signifying nothing! As a cause for celebration, the commemoration of a... More >>

• Remembering Rose

  published December 16, 1999

  In the spring and summer of 1986, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird and I played a peculiar game of phone tag. I was the newly... More >>

• Who Were Those Kids?

  published December 16, 1999

  Okay, who were those kids? Though the media have done their usual sensationalist spreads profiling the... More >>

• The Battle in Seattle

  published December 9, 1999

  photo by Rick DahmsThe last time the World Trade Organization had a major meeting, it was in Singapore, and now we know... More >>

• Overriding Democracy

  published December 2, 1999

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• Odd Man Out

  published November 18, 1999

  Carrots, Jessica Boone; Ruben & Ramon, APWide World; Hayden, Debra Dipaolo Tom Hayden was never really a perfect... More >>

• Socrates at the Seder

  published October 28, 1999

  In the eyes of the world, Stanley Fleishman was either the pre-eminent First Amendment lawyer of the past half-century (if you were a... More >>

• 'The Government Has To Stand Up'

  published October 21, 1999

  On Wednesday, September 29 — one day after he unveiled his far-reaching health-care proposal at Los Angeles Valley College — former senat... More >>

• Al, It’s Not About You

  published October 21, 1999

  Photo by Michael PowersIt took John Sweeney calling in all his favors, but Al Gore has finally had himself a good day. The... More >>

• The New Unionism Finds a Home

  published October 14, 1999

  Photo by Slobodan DimitrovThis Saturday morning, Mayor Richard Riordan and other civic pooh-bahs will repair to the Harbor Freeway downtown to... More >>

• Memo to Warren

  published September 30, 1999

  I. Your Mission I have here an invite from the Southern California chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, the... More >>

• Sacramento Legislates

  published September 23, 1999

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• State of Disrepair

  published September 9, 1999

  My friend Jan Breidenbach, who heads the Southern California Association for Non-Profit Housing, figures she’s putting in an extra 10 hours ... More >>

• Cattle Call

  published August 26, 1999

  Photo by Ted SoquiI. THE GAME'S AFOOT IT WAS A PERFECT CAMPAIGN TABLEAU. ON A SPARKLING Friday morning in July, Assembly Speaker Antonio... More >>

• On Granada Hills

  published August 19, 1999

  Now there will be squad cars outside the community centers, armed guards at the summer camps, a cop at every synagogue. Could be... More >>

• Gray Dawn

  published August 12, 1999

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• Behind the Stogies

  published July 29, 1999

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• Irrational Exuberance

  published July 15, 1999

  Photo by Anne FishbeinMove over, Amazon.com. Yield, Yahoo. There’s a new start-up out there that makes you guys look as old-school, blue-chi... More >>

• The Difference Between the Democrats

  published July 1, 1999

  Photo by Michael PowersAl Gore and Bill Bradley — the entire Democratic presidential field — passed through town last week, officially kicki... More >>

• Meanings of Kosovo

  published June 24, 1999

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• Richard Riordan, Pol

  published June 17, 1999

  Photo by Ted SoquiFor the past couple of years, the specter haunting Richard Riordan has been that of James Buchanan. Buchanan, you may... More >>

• The Irked and the Jerked

  published June 10, 1999

  Photo by Virginia Lee HunterThe most striking thing about both the mayor’s campaign for the new charter and the campaign of many City Counci... More >>

• In the Skies and in the Streets

  published May 20, 1999

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• Why Are We in (or Anyway, Over) Kosovo?

  published April 29, 1999

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• Capital 1, Labor 1

  published April 22, 1999

  Photo by Slobodan DimitrovElection Day was a good day for Richard Riordan, which is news, since he wasn’t running. Until this Tuesday, th... More >>