National Journal articles from May 2001

National Journal archives from May 2001

RX for Nurses.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2001... Recently, I spent a day in a large urban teaching hospital watching nurses and other health professionals save lives. In a neonatal intensive care unit with 28 struggling premature newborns, I saw amazing modern technology and nurses doing...

WHAT MEN OVERLOOK IN THE DEBATE OVER SOCIAL SECURITY.
May 5, 2001... This past week, two stories appeared on page one of The Washington Post that did not seem particularly connected, but were in fact intimately so. The first story, appearing on Monday, April 30, heralded the release of two studies about...

THE CASE FOR CURBING CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUITS.
May 5, 2001... A 5-4 Supreme Court decision on April 24 left standing a silly Alabama policy that makes life unnecessarily difficult for some foreign-born Americans by requiring that they take their driver's license exam in English. More important, the...

KOIZUMI BRINGS JAPAN TO THE BRINK--BUT OF WHAT?(Junichiro Koizumi)
May 5, 2001... Suddenly, unexpectedly, and not a moment too soon, Japan is the most politically interesting of the world's top industrial economies. "I think this can be called a peaceful revolution," Junichiro Koizumi, the new Japanese prime minister, told...

Bush's Left Right-Hand Men.
May 5, 2001... GEORGE W. BUSH NEVER CARED MUCH FOR THE FERMENT OF THE 1960s AND '70s, BUT HE HAS SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH FORMER RADICALS AND LEFTIES FROM THAT ERA WHO ARE NOW THE TRUEST-BLUE CONSERVATIVES. Black Panther patron. Communist Party member....

In Death Row's Shadow.(George W. Bush's stance on the death penalty)
May 5, 2001... HOW BUSH RESPONDS TO PLEAS FOR MERCY IN THE NEW DEATH PENALTY ENVIRONMENT WILL HELP SHAPE HIS LEGACY AS PRESIDENT. President John F. Kennedy was swimming in the White House pool when a telephone call came in from Des Moines, Iowa. It was...

A Tangled Web.(privacy laws and the Internet)
May 5, 2001... HOW A BILL NAMED FOR AMY BOYER, A YOUNG WOMAN KILLED BY A STALKER, GOT CAUGHT UP IN A DEBATE OVER INTERNET PRIVACY. If any bill seemed to be a sure bet for enactment by Congress last year, it was "Amy Boyer's Law, named for a 20-year-old...

A PRETTY GOOD OPENING ACT.(political activity of Thomas Reynolds)
May 5, 2001... For many freshman Congressmen, a good rule of thumb is "be seen and not heard." They typically spend their first two years in Washington learning the ins and outs of the legislative process, raising money for their own re-election campaigns,...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.
May 5, 2001... APRIL 30-MAY 3 Deal Reached on Budget Resolution The conference agreement on the fiscal 2002 budget resolution reached by House and Senate negotiators this week includes a bit less in tax cuts than President Bush wanted and a bit more...

FACING A TEST IN CYBERSPACE.
May 5, 2001... When Donald L. Evans left the Texas oil fields and became Commerce Secretary earlier this year, he may not have known what a pivotal role he would play in the Internet's future. But in the next week, he will be confronted with one of several...

THE GOP's NEW BRIDGE TO K STREET.
May 5, 2001... Last week, as the Senate geared up for a heated debate on education legislation, Republicans got a boost from business and high-tech leaders at a Capitol Hill news conference touting the GOP's blueprint. Jerry Jasinowski, president of the...

USING ONE VOICE TO KILL CANCER.
May 5, 2001... Cancer is ubiquitous in the United States. Because it is, the disease is both a health tragedy and, ironically, a problem for the many groups that lobby in Washington for anti dancer funding. With dozens of associations seeking help on 208...

FROM THE K STREET CORRIDOR.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2001... Call Your Lobbyists, Rocket Man So, you thought American businessman Dennis Tito's space jaunt with the Russians cost him a mere $20 million? No way. Tito also shelled out an undisclosed sum on lobbyists working to keep the National...

THE GREATEST SHOW OFF EARTH.(Dennis Tito and space tourism)
May 5, 2001... Space enthusiasts have been awaiting the day when normal people, rather than a handful of astronauts and cosmonauts, can voyage to the final frontier. Now the wait may have been shortened--a bit. Last week, 60-year-old California millionaire...

A GOP GOVERNOR GOES GREEN.(George W. Bush's environmental policy)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2001... Environmentalists howled when the Bush Administration signaled its intentions to give states more room to set and enforce environmental rules. Reduced federal oversight, they said, would set off a race to the bottom--one state after another...

GIVE PUEBLO SKIPPER HIS DAY IN COURT.
May 5, 2001... ANDERSONVILLE, Ga.--Maybe here, at the National Prisoner of War Museum, on the red clay soil of what was once a brutal Confederate prison camp where 13,000 of 45,000 Union prisoners died in only 14 months, is the right place to stage something...

TRIANGULATION, AGAIN.(governing style of George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2001... The journalists are bored. Watch as they work through it, like depressed people in therapy. Feel for them as they search for formulations, metaphors, analogies--anything to explain this crushing dullness. "I am suffering from George Bush...

AND NOW IT'S KOIZUMI'S TURN.(Junichiro Koizumi)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2001... In recent years, the election of a new Japanese prime minister has almost always been followed by a wave of hope that here at last is a leader who'll take the firm steps needed to revive Japan's stagnant economy. That hope is inevitably...

THE ODD SHAPES OF OUR DEMOCRACY.(redistricting)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2001... Mark Monmonier, a Syracuse University geography professor, sometimes appears in his latest book to be the embodiment of one of those good-news, bad-news jokes. He makes clear that he knows a lot about statistics, and he has a gift for cleverly...

HARSH JUSTICE, CLUELESS JUSTICES.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2001... In the fall of 1961, the U.S. Supreme Court was considering whether the post office could turn away "bodybuilding" magazines that appealed to gays. The photos of muscular men were not blatantly obscene, the Kennedy Administration's lawyers...

LET THE COURT FIGHTS BEGIN AGAIN.(court case between the Democratic Party and Republican Party on redistricting)
May 5, 2001... With both major parties girding for courthouse showdowns after political boundaries are redrawn to account for census-documented population shifts, the Democratic Party is already declaring victory in a preliminary skirmish of the redistricting...

Hotline Extra.
May 5, 2001... California Scheming President Bush is not the toast of the West Coast. The San Francisco Chronicle's Carla Marinucci writes that "critics are carping" that President Bush didn't visit California during his first 100 days, an omission...

BUSH STOPS TRYING TO KEEP THINGS SIMPLE.(George W. Bush's major policy managment)
May 5, 2001... With the first 100 days hurdle behind them, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney last week finally began to get down to the business of serious governing, as they issued major pronouncements on energy policy, a missile...

Poll Track.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2001... Views on policy and politics * The Administration BUSH'S REPORT CARD In every new Administration, the 100-day benchmark is traditionally accompanied by a flurry of press appraisals, and 2001 has been a banner year for presidential...

People.
May 5, 2001... Interest Groups Long a political animal, Sieve lost is eager to join the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and embroil himself in the abortion battle. "The issue of a woman's fundamental freedoms has never been more...

THE `VISION THING' ISN'T A PROBLEM.(evaluation of George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2001... One hundred days into his Administration, President Bush I gets three very different ratings: from the American public, excellent; from Congress, fair; from the rest of the world, poor. Americans give Bush a 62 percent job-approval rating,...

WHAT WOULD PAPA BUSH THINK OF THIS NOMINEE?(attorney in disability case, Jeffrey Sutton, nominee for U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit)
May 12, 2001... "It's appalling that the son of George Senior, who was proud of the ADA, would nominate to the federal bench someone who wants to trash it." Jim Dickson, a vice president with the National Organization on Disability, was fuming over President...

JUDICIAL SELECTIONS: COMPROMISE ON IDEOLOGY, NOT QUALITY.
May 12, 2001... President Bush made a strategically smart move in the 15-year-old war of the judges by announcing on May 9 a slate of 11 nominees carefully balanced both to please conservative activists and to disarm mainstream Democrats whose help he will...

READ MY LIPS: THERE'S NO ENERGY CRISIS.
May 12, 2001... "Crisis" is a word honest politicians use sparingly. It is what you say, in presenting an idea, when you want to silence objections that would usually make sense. In a crisis, you don't fuss about whether drastic remedies add up in the long...

The Comeback Challenge.(Democratic Party)
May 12, 2001... AS THEY LEARN TO SURVIVE IN A POLITICAL SIBERIA, DEMOCRATS SEARCH FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF ISSUES. At a recent thank-you party for campaign contributors hosted by former Vice President Al Gore, one of his friends took a moment to vent...

WORKING FOR A QUICK REBOUND.(Democratic Party)
May 12, 2001... Still smarting over the outcome of the 2000 presidential election, the Democratic Party hopes this year's off-year elections generate much-needed momentum as it prepares for next year's critical midterm contests. Yet political operatives on...

THE NEXT CROP TAKES THE FIELD.(possible Democratic presidential candidates in 2004)
May 12, 2001... As Democrats struggle to redefine their party in the wake of President Bush's election, National Journal interviewed six possible contenders for the party's 2004 presidential nomination: Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, Sen. Joe Lieberman...

THE GOP's DRIVE TO DELIVER.
May 12, 2001... President Bush had been in office barely two weeks when Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-Wash., was leaving the West Wing of the White House after a meeting with presidential advisers to discuss strategy on Social Security. As she warmly greeted another...

Tests of Compassion.(George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism)
May 12, 2001... A LOOK AT HOW GEORGE W. BUSH'S PROMISE TO BE A "COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE" SQUARES WITH HIS POLICIES IN THREE KEY AREAS. WASHINGTON--His father portrayed his own style of governing a dozen years ago as "kinder and gentler," and spoke in...

HOT TRADE WINDS ARE BLOWING.(international trade policies)
May 12, 2001... On Capitol Hill, a rite of spring has begun: The White House, the business community, and their allies in Congress are launching a major push for free trade, while organized labor, public-interest groups, and their congressional allies are...

A MODERATE'S CHALLENGE.(GOP moderate Rep. Mark Kirk)
May 12, 2001... The 417th-ranking member of the House is doing what he can to follow in the footsteps of the man he replaced--the popular an long-serving John Edward Porter--a moderate Republican who before retiring last year bucked his party on such...

WHEN THE FINE PRINT CHANGES.(education reform compromise bill)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2001... The good news about the deal struck in the Senate on the education reform bill is that it has bipartisan support; the bad news is that there's little evidence that it will work as advertised. Compromises are "coming so quickly, there's...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.
May 12, 2001... MAY 7-10 Budget Resolution Belatedly Approved After a delay at least nominally caused by two missing pages, Congress this week approved a fiscal 2002 budget resolution conference report that sets guidelines for the rest of the year's...

MEDDLING IN MINNESOTA.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2001... Let me get this straight: Even though Vice President Dick Cheney seems to be in charge of just about everything in the White House, he still recently found the time to step into the political fray in Minnesota. The busy Veep unexpectedly tried...

AUTO LOBBYISTS REV UP FOR FUEL FIGHT.
May 12, 2001... As it gets ready to release a much anticipated report on national energy strategy, the Bush Administration is sending mixed signals to automakers on one of the industry's most important positions: opposition to new mandates that would toughen...

THE PROMISE--AND PERIL--OF EARLY LOBBYING.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2001... Congress won't consider the highway reauthorization bill for another two years, but the American Road & Transportation Builders Association is already putting in its bid. One of Washington's more influential associations, ARTBA represents...

FROM THE K STREET CORRIDOR.(lobbying news items)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2001... Racicot Rolling on K Street Lobbyist-strategist Marc Racicot, an ex-governor of Montana and a close political ally of President Bush, is busy building his K Street practice. Racicot, now with Bracewell & Patterson, has landed a big...

ENHANCING SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY WITH TRUTH.
May 12, 2001... CHARLESTON, S.C.--In early 2000, visitors touring Boone Hall, a historic plantation near here, were led through the lavishly decorated mansion by ladies dressed in hoop dresses straight out of Gone With the Wind. The costumed guides talked a...

THE HALO DOESN'T QUITE FIT.(Review)
May 12, 2001... Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century By John A. Farrell Little, Brown and Co. 784 pages $29.95 For 14 years, from 1973 until 1986, first as Majority Leader and then as Speaker, Tip O'Neill dominated the House and the congressional branch...

IT'S NOT JUST A PENSION PLAN (DAMMIT!).(Review)
May 12, 2001... Insuring the Essentials: Bob Ball on Social Security By Robert M. Ball The Century Foundation Press 324 pages $14.95 You may have heard the one about Alf Landon's ill-fated tirade during the 1936 presidential campaign and how it blew up in...

CLOWN TIME IS OVER.(Blumenthal vs. Drudge case)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2001... When Blumenthal vs. Drudge finally ended last week, the whole media community leaned back and had a big collective yawn. In a way, the reaction was surprising, because this battle once mesmerized our crowd. It began in the summer of 1997...

OK, WHO'S GOT THE AGENDA?(international trade negotiations)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2001... GENEVA--With only a few months left before a "go" or "no-go" decision has to be made, it is looking less and less likely that a new round of international trade negotiations will be launched when world trade ministers meet in November in Doha,...

Hotline Extra.
May 12, 2001... The Rumor Miller In a 50-50 Senate, even denials of a party switch get extra scrutiny. Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga., who has faced "heavy criticism... from supporting President Bush's tax-cut plan," appeared "to fire a warning shot back at his...

WILL 2001 RESULTS BE MIRROR IMAGE OF 1993?(Brief Article)
May 12, 2001... In 1993, Republicans were on a roll. They captured the New Jersey and Virginia governorships from Democrats, as well as the mayoralties of two congenitally Democratic cities: Los Angeles and New York. Republicans crowed in each case that...

Poll Track.(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
May 12, 2001... Views on policy and politics * Welfare Reform PROGRESS REPORT Welfare reform has now been on the books for almost five years. The 1996 measure ended the federal guarantee of public assistance for the poor by requiring able-bodied...

People.
May 12, 2001... Image-Makers Karen Sloan Lebovich has combined two major interests in her career: education and communications. She will continue that trend as the new vice president in the Washington office of Lipman Hearne, a communications firm that...

IT'S CHENEY VS. CARTER IN NEW ENERGY WAR.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2001... Production vs. conservation sounds like "back to the future." The debate over energy policy is one we've had before, during the energy crisis of the 1970s. But this time, the debate is peculiarly shaping up as one between the Bush...

GOD KNOWS, WE CAN'T ABIDE PRAYING ON THE JOB.
May 19, 2001... I probably should be upset at this week's revelation that Attorney General John D. Ashcroft holds morning prayer meetings in his office. After all, it is easy to sympathize with the objections: that Ashcroft, by forming a prayer group in the...

MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND THE FOLLY OF THE DRUG WAR.
May 19, 2001... The Supreme Court delivered a timely reminder of the social costs of our "war on drugs" with its May 14 decision rejecting a medical-necessity exception to the federal law criminalizing marijuana. Meanwhile, President Bush has moved toward...

THE WIDENING MARRIAGE GAP: AMERICA'S NEW CLASS DIVIDE.
May 19, 2001... In the debate over the reauthorization of the landmark 1996 welfare law, conservatives are talking about marriage. And talking, and talking. "The conservatives are on an absolute tear about that," says Isabel V. Sawhill, an economist and...

The New World Disorder.
May 19, 2001... THE EUPHORIC POST-COLD WAR ERA OF AMERICAN DOMINION IS DEAD. WHAT KILLED IT WAS DOMESTIC DIVISION, A WAR IN KOSOVO, AND A DECADE OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES. Epochs traditionally end with war or revolution, or some other cataclysm that upsets...

A Cooler Peace.
May 19, 2001... NOT QUITE ENEMIES, NOT QUITE FRIENDS WASHINGTON AND MOSCOW EYE EACH OTHER WITH NEW REALISM, UNDER TWO NEW PRESIDENTS On a recent evening at the Russian Embassy in Washington, the last Communist czar of the Soviet Union paused for a moment...

Reading Tea Leaves.
May 19, 2001... ONE DAY A SOFT LINE, THE NEXT A HARD ONE. THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S CHINA POLICY MIGHT WELL BE CALLED INSCRUTABLE. Ritual seems to play an outsize role in relations with China. During times of great tension, experts on China's political...

Trouble in the ER.
May 19, 2001... A SHORTAGE OF NURSES AND INPATIENT BEDS IS STRAINING EMERGENCY ROOMS. CONGRESS MAY BE FORCED TO RESPOND. It's a typical day at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Diego, and all of the emergency room beds are filled. As many as 10...

GENTLE JESSE.(Jesse Helms)
May 19, 2001... A kinder, gentler Jesse Helms? The tough-as-nails North Carolina Republican, who over the years has seemed to enjoy cultivating the nickname "Senator No," has recently taken some unexpected turns that reveal a mellower, less-pugnacious side. At...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.
May 19, 2001... MAY 14-17 GOP Launches Pre-Recess Push on Taxes The Senate on May 17 began debating its $1.35 trillion tax-cut package as Republican leaders vowed to get a final compromise bill to President Bush's desk by Memorial Day. During the...

NUCLEAR POWER GETS TO GO TO THE BALL.
May 19, 2001... John E. Kane, a lobbyist for the Nuclear Energy Institute, likes to describe nuclear power as the nation's "Cinderella" energy technology. Like nuclear power, he says, "Cinderella toils away for years, unnoticed and unappreciated." This year,...

WHY REAGAN PAPERS AREN'T BEING RELEASED.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2001... For 12 years, political junkies of a certain persuasion waited in delicious anticipation for January 21, 2001, when truth would finally rule the day. These eager beavers were not Republican partisans joyous at the prospect of another GOP...

WHEN THE JOINT GETS THE BUSINESS.(Federal Prison Industries)(Statistical Data Included)
May 19, 2001... Call the Long Island City, N.Y., office of Glamour Glove, and you can hear machines whirring in the background. Yes, New York's only remaining glove factory is still in business, says the receptionist, straining to be heard over the constant...

COMING SOON: A HARRY AN LOUISE SPINOFF?(proposed campaign for oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2001... An unusual appeal arrived last month in the mailboxes of seven oil company executives. The three members of Alaska's congressional delegation had written to suggest that oil companies ought to fired a "Harry and Louise" style national...

FROM THE K STREET CORRIDOR.(lobbying)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2001... RNC: Break Out Those Checkbooks K Streeters are pulling out all the stops for the Republican National Committee's May 22 Presidential Gala. The event could smash GOP fundraising records for a single event and bring in close to $25 million,...

Poll Track.(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
May 19, 2001... * Job Approval at the Top KEEPING TRACK The latest job-approval ratings of President Bush indicate that a majority of Americans like the way he has handled his presidency so far: POLL APPROVE DISAPPROVE ...

A BREAK FOR THE ALERT POOR.(Earned Income Tax Credit)
May 19, 2001... It's tax-refund season. Millions of American taxpayers are deciding how to spend the money they're getting back from Uncle Sam. Among them are the poor families who get a welcome boost from the Earned Income Tax Credit, an understudied but...

THIS YEAR'S MODEL.(Internet and media business models)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2001... ON THE MEDIA You can always tell when media people are getting really desperate, because they start babbling about their new "model." When they use this word--and lately they're using it incessantly--they don't seem to realize how much...

CAN PENTAGON INC. SELL ITS IPO REFORMS?(Brief Article)
May 19, 2001... Now that CEO Donald Rumsfeld has succeeded in recruiting the business executives he wanted for Pentagon Inc., his next big challenge is to succeed in the initial public offering of his reforms. This will not be an easy sell within Pentagon...

SOMETHING'S MISSING HERE.(Bush administration international trade agenda)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2001... The long-awaited Bush Administration 2001 international trade agenda--released this month by the White House--raises more questions than it answers. It includes but a cursory reference to the most divisive issue likely to dominate the coming...

Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation.(Review)
May 19, 2001... Going Up the River By Joseph T. Hallinan Random House 262 pages $24.95 During the past three decades, the incarceration rate in the United States has doubled, then doubled again--and it's still going up. Altogether, some 2 million people...

The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society.(Review)
May 19, 2001... The Culture of Control By David Garland University of Chicago Press 302 pages $29.00 During the past three decades, the incarceration rate in the United States has doubled, then doubled again--and it's still going up. Altogether, some 2...

When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Tradition.(Review)
May 19, 2001... When the State Kills By Austin Sarat Princeton University Press 324 pages $29.95 During the past three decades, the incarceration rate in the United States has doubled, then doubled again--and it's still going up. Altogether, some 2...

TILTING THE BENCH FARTHER TO THE RIGHT.(judicial nominees)
May 19, 2001... When President Bush introduced his first 11 judicial nominees on May 9, he enthusiastically stressed the group's diversity in gender and race. He gleefully took credit for nominating the first Hispanic to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C....

Hotline, Extra.(various political news items)
May 19, 2001... See Bill Run, Again? You can take the man out of politics, but you can't take politics out of the man. Former President Clinton, accepting a humanitarian award from the United Federation of Teachers on Saturday in New York City, told the...

RED ROVER IS A BALANCED SENATE'S NEW GAME.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2001... With the emergence of the 50-50 Senate in November, a conventional wisdom developed that a dozen moderate or contrarian (read: conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans) Senators would rule the roost. The theory was that this group would...

People.
May 19, 2001... Consulting Game Following what he referred to as a 60-day odyssey, former Clinton National Security Adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger has announced he's starting a global-strategy firm, Stonebridge International, which will draw on talent...

GOVERNMENT BY GENDER GAP.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2001... There's an old rule in politics: Dance with the one that brung you. Who brought George W. Bush to the White House? The answer is men. According to exit polls, men voted for Bush by a decisive majority, 53 percent to 42 percent. Women voted just...

EMPOWER AMERICA RESPONDS.(response to article by Stuart Taylor Jr. in National Journal, p. 1467, May 2001)(Brief Article)
May 26, 2001... In his column "Medical Marijuana and the Folly of the Drug War" [5/19/01, p. 1467], Stuart Taylor Jr. rejects Bill Bennett's claim that "drug use is dangerous and immoral." Mr. Taylor takes Bennett's claim "personally" because Taylor "smoked...

THE JEFFORDS DEFECTION AND THE RISK OF SNAP JUDGMENTS.
May 26, 2001... At last, the shoe has dropped. It wasn't the oldest shoe, or the most worn, or the slickest. It wasn't Strom Thurmond or Jesse Helms or even Robert Torricelli who made a move that ended the tireless guessing game as to how--not whether--the...

DOES THE DEATH PENALTY SAVE INNOCENT LIVES?
May 26, 2001... Timothy McVeigh is the ideal poster boy for the death penalty, it is often said. He is an unmistakably guilty, unrepentant, rational, calculating, confessed mass murderer who can complain neither of racism (he's white) nor of an unfair trial...

A MORE INTERESTING KIND OF POLITICS IN BRITAIN.
May 26, 2001... Opinion polls in Britain show that Tony Blair's Labor government is about to win another crushing victory over the Conservatives. In previous elections, the polls have exaggerated Labor's lead, for a reason that Tories would rather not think...

Future Shock.
May 26, 2001... WITH CALlFORNIA'S POWER PROBLEMS RAPIDLY SPREADING TO OTHER STATES, LAWMAKERS ARE STARTING TO FEEL THE HEAT. In early June, Marsh Smith, a member of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, expects to be deluged with irate phone calls. That s...