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Shown are several issues – numbers one through twelve of volume two -- of Frank Hichborn’s 1917 Legislative Bulletin, a weekly record and analysis of California state legislative actions done in terms that were understandable to the general public. The paper was started in 1916 in the spirit of muckraking, a journalistic ethic that the California-born Hichborn (1868-1963) discovered while a student at Stanford University. It was there that he cut his teeth with the Santa Clara Index advocating for the development of a public-owned water system. This would set the tone for a lifetime passion for the promotion of public utilities and causes attached to the platform of the Progressive Movement. Eventually moving to Sacramento, he became a legislative reporter for both the Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Examiner, and then a free-lancer well into the 1940s. Hichborn was instrumental in promoting the election of Progressive candidate Hiram Johnson to gubernatorial office in 1910. He was al
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