71.   Joiner said the commission had no comment on these allegations.

72.   Kirsanow said the commission had to address issues like the achievement gap between black and white students.

73.   LAFCO is hoping the two sides can work out as many issues as possible, so the commission does not have to impose unpopular solutions.

74.   Levitt responded that he hoped to reach a compromise but added that the commission had the power to force changes if necessary.

75.   Last spring the justices asked Solicitor General Drew S. Days III for his opinion on whether the commission had independent litigating authority.

76.   Later Monday evening, a newscaster on state television said the commission had no announcement to make.

77.   McBee conceded that the commission does not have a study that shows specific evidence of water-quality degradation as a result of development in the contributing zone.

78.   Ms. Charo, who was also a member of the Human Embryo Research Panel, said the current commission had several difficulties.

79.   Network officials say that under the debate guidelines, the bipartisan commission has authority over the lighting in the debate hall and the audio transmission of the proceedings.

80.   Now the commission has rightly, if belatedly, reversed course.