Dan Walters

Two recent critiques of the state's efforts to raise academic achievement by disadvantaged students indicate that reality is beginning to rear its ugly head.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening a stake seizure of Pacific Gas & Electric if it doesn't meet his demands for change. Is it real or just a bluff.

A Senate bill to make housing more affordable by overcoming local resistance to high-density construction, dies, a victim of NIMBYism.

Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants a "California for All" that closes its economic gaps, but the reality is daunting and at the moment, the gaps are growing wider.

Which troubled institutions are too big to fail. Pacific Gas & Electric? Los Angeles Unified School District? City College of San Francisco?

The Legislative Analyst's Office ignores reality in its lukewarm report on a pilot program of allowing community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees.

Pardons of felons by presidents and governors have a tortured history, and Gavin Newsom has an opportunity to add a chapter.

California's schools are supposed to be educating nearly 6 million kids, but have educational and financial problems galore. Will they be fixed?

Voters will decide more than 200 local government tax and bond measures on the March 3 ballot and hundreds more are likely for the November ballot.

The state's newest budget is, like others, very dependent on personal incomes taxes on the highest-income Californians and that's dangerous.