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.
Extrapolating from a report on housing Los Angeles' homeless population, it could cost California $10 billion a year, for 10 years, to fix homelessness statewide.
Former President Donald Trump is hoping that bashing California for its sins will help him win swing state voters who hold dark thoughts about this state.
California’s educational achievement crisis is negatively impacting the futures of millions of kids and the state’s economy. That would have been a better topic for the nothingburger special legislative session Gov. Gavin Newsom called on gas prices.
Despite such high prices, gasoline is still a relatively small segment of what it costs to live in California. Nevertheless, gas prices command an inordinately high level of public attention as a symbol of anxiety about living costs in general, and therefore are ripe for political exploitation.
Under then-President Donald Trump a popular federal income tax deduction was capped at $10,000 a year, costing Californians thousands of dollars. Now he's ready to cut the cap.
A new report on the success of California's "second chance" programs at discouraging felons from reoffending after Proposition 47 relies on diluted data.
California's master plan for the University of California, California State University and dozens of community colleges to work cooperatively never panned out. It's time to change it.
The real estate industry's embrace of online transactions, rather than hard copy documents, has given scammers opportunities for fraud costing homebuyers millions.
Una encuesta muestra que la mayoría de los votantes apoyan la Proposición 36, una señal de que la gobernación de Gavin Newsom se está acercando al estatus de gobernador saliente.
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