Comentarios y análisis del veterano periodista Dan Walters, que ha cubierto el estado de California durante más de seis décadas. Inscribirse para su boletín semanal Walters.
For the past year, debate has raged over plans to impose new fixed charges on electric utility customers based on their incomes. The issue began with a 2022 budget "trailer bill," a process governors and legislators misuse to enact major policy changes without fully debating them.
Si bien gran parte del país disfruta de una vigorosa recuperación económica de la pandemia de COVID-19, California se está quedando atrás con un escaso crecimiento del empleo.
California is a liberal state where politicians enact laws and regulations aimed at improving Californians' lives, but that also makes them susceptible to influence.
California enfrenta un déficit presupuestario multimillonario que podría durar años. En lugar de tratarla como una crisis fiscal grave, el gobernador Gavin Newsom y los líderes legislativos están utilizando trucos para cerrar la brecha.
California's public schools depend on state aid for the lion's share of their operational income. Two trends – declining enrollment and high absenteeism – are creating financial headaches.
In recent decades, the logistics industry has flourished in Southern California, but there's a backlash over the industry's low wages and the pollution it creates.
California has typically had U.S. senators with different personalities, one being flashy and the other quietly diligent. That phenomenon may be ending when two journeyman politicians, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, occupy the state's two Senate seats.
A long-running feud between Orange County's elected schools superintendent and its school board exemplifies how public education has become a major venue for culture war clashes.
Five years into his governorship, fewer than half of Californian adults approve of Gavin Newsom's performance. Still, a second recall drive is doomed for failure.
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