Dan Walters

A 44-year-old political battle about payouts for medical malpractice may be headed back to the ballot, unless doctors and lawyers reach agreement.

Having acted twice to protect California's children, Gov. Gavin Newsom can have a trifecta by signing legislation to mandate later school starting times.

Can a nine-county regional agency in the San Francisco Bay Area solve its chronic and acute shortage of housing?

California is enjoying multibillion-dollar surpluses, but voters could still face a dizzying array of tax increases on the ballot next year.

Local officials may mislead voters about tax and bond measures, but they can't lie to bankers without the feds investigating.

A bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk would make it more difficult to qualify measures for the ballot, a long-sought goal of Democrats and their allies.

Is there a tipping point at which California's negative factors cause the state to decline?

Three expansionist bills flunked the smell test and two died in this year's legislative session, but the third was approved.

To protect delicate water negotiations, Gov. Newsom breaks with Democrats, labor groups and environmentalists on anti-Trump legislation.

During his campaign for governor, Newsom set a goal of building 3.5 million new units of housing by 2025. Nothing that occurred in the Capitol this year would even begin to make that happen.