February 15, 2019
Commentary
Weekly Walters 02/15/2019
A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.
Newsletters
Police misconduct, guns rights, disasters and taxes
The fight for continues for police misconduct records, a pioneering state gun law is being challenged by red states, and a court ruling is creating tax chaos.
Commentary
My turn: California votes will be wasted in 2020 presidential primary. Here’s why
By moving the presidential primary election date to March 3, 2020, the Legislature sought to hit the moving target of relevance based on circumstances that can neither be controlled or known. If the past is any guide, hundreds of thousands of voters will waste their ballots on candidates who no longer will be running by primary election day.