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California's Energy Crisis 

• Do Residents of Corona Need More Debt for Another Government Bureaucracy? (Dec. '02)
  By Carol Evans
• State Reworks Deals With 5 Power Firms. (4/23/02)
  By Tim Reiterman and Virginia Ellis, Los Angeles Times
• BOE Rejects FTB Position in Pacificorp Case. (4/19/02)
  In a tax appeal where most of the discussion was on an attempt by the Franchise Tax Board to classify electricity as tangible personal property for corporate tax apportionment purposes, the State Board of Equalization on April 17 ruled unanimously for the taxpayer (Appeal of Pacificorp, No. 90027).
• Consolidating California’s Energy Bureaucracy. (Feb.02)
  By Bill Hauck
• Largest Energy Users Can Still Bypass Utilities (3/22/02) By Tim Reiterman, Los Angeles Times
• Energy Project Slowdown May Cause Power Shortages (Update3) (3/19/02) By Liz Skinner
• Consolidating California’s Energy Bureaucracy (Feb.'02)
  By Bill Hauck and Allan Zaremberg
• Energy Price Probes Widen to Include State Officials
  Chief of Power Grid to be Questioned
  By Mark Martin, San Francisco Chronicle (11/6/2001)
• Edison Bailout? No, Just a Late PUC Bow to Legal Reality
  An editorial from the San Jose Mercury News (10/4/2001)
• Government Does It Again (Oct.'01)
  By Ray Haynes
• Get State Government Out of the Energy-Buying Business 
  (Sept. '01) By Larry McCarthy
• Back from recess, legislators to find focus has shifted in energy crisis
  By Ed Mendel, San Diego Union-Tribune (8/20/2001)
• California Municipal Utilities Should Be Probed, Lawmaker Says
  By Daniel Taub, Bloomberg (8/20/01)
• Electricity: Who's at Fault? (July '01)
  By Pete Wilson, former governor of California
  By David Freeman, senior energy adviser to Governor Davis
• Study: Summer Blackouts Could Cost the State's Economy 
  $21.8 Billion; 135,000 Jobs (June '01)
  By AUS Consultants
• Assessing the California Energy Crisis (June '01)
  By Mark W. Seetin
• Time for New Look at Nuclear Power (June '01)
  By Senator Tom McClintock
• Protecting Taxpayers in the Energy Crisis (May '01)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Why PG&E Chose Bankruptcy Protection (May '01)
  By Robert D. Glynn
• The California Energy Market From A Utility Perspective: From Problem to Crisis to Solutions (May '01)
  By Anthony L. Smith
• California Can Survive the Power Crisis Through a Straightforward Business Approach (May '01)
  By Anne M. Cleary
• Energy Crisis: Cutting Through the Myths (May '01)
  By William Keese
• Restless Citizens Should Consider Public Power (May '01)
  By James B. McClatchy
• Public Power Has Its Drawbacks (May '01)
  By Richard J. McCann
• Manifesto on the California Electricity Crisis (Mar. '01). Click here to read this Cal-Tax Digest article.
• The governor's press releases and details of his energy program are available on his website: http://www.governor.ca.gov/
  • Governor acts to boost power generation 
    (2/8/2001 11:30 a.m.)
  • Governor Davis signs bill to allow long-term energy contracts and encourage conservation. (2/1/2001 3:32 p.m.)
  • Gov. Davis outlines $800-million energy efficiency and demand reduction program. (2/1/2001  1:00 p.m.)
• Davis cuts red tape - Plan speeds plants, vows more energy by summer, San Diego Union-Tribune (2/9/2001)
• Caltaxletter coverage of the passage of AB 1X and the governor's executive order on conservation. (2/1/2001) 
• GOP proposes long-term solutions to energy shortage (1/31/2001)