Daniel Walters

Cattle stand in a green grassy field with green energy wind mills in the background in Solano County.

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California has seen many towns created, but as population drops a big project has stalled

Many new towns have been created to handle California's population growth. Now the state is losing population, and its latest new town project has stalled.

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Daniel Walters

• 26 de julio de 2024

Bright sparks emanate as a welder works on the steel frame of a housing project.

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Eye-popping construction costs intensify California’s chronic housing shortage

As California struggles to address its housing shortage, the sky-high costs of housing projects minimize the bang for its bucks.

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Daniel Walters

• 25 de julio de 2024

El sello azul y amarillo de la oficina del gobernador de California, con la bandera del estado de California en el medio, se encuentra en un podio.

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Mientras Newsom termina su mandato como gobernador, los posibles sucesores se multiplican

While Gavin Newsom serves out the last two years of his governorship and possibly awaits a chance to run for president, the field of would-be successors is growing.

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Daniel Walters

• 24 de julio de 2024

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La imagen de California será un arma si Kamala Harris se enfrenta a Donald Trump este año

Si la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris se convierte en la candidata demócrata a la presidencia, el expresidente Donald Trump utilizará imágenes de personas sin hogar, inmigración ilegal y otros problemas de California en su contra en los estados clave.

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Daniel Walters

• 23 de julio de 2024

The Yolo Causeway between Sacramento and Davis on Feb. 23, 2017. Photo by Steve Martarano, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Environmental opposition to vital Sacramento-area highway project is ridiculous

A chronic highway bottleneck between Sacramento and Davis plagues a portion of Interstate 80, one of the nation's most important transcontinental routes. Environmental groups are trying to derail a project to address it.

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Daniel Walters

• julio 5, 2024

Democrat presidential candidate U.S. President Joe Biden listens as Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during their debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024. Photo by Brian Snyder via Reuters

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248 years after America’s independence, is Biden vs. Trump the best we can do?

The battle between two very flawed presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, symbolizes the nation's polarized and dysfunctional politics.

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Daniel Walters

• 4 de julio de 2024

A Shell gas station price sign displays the cost of gasoline: $5.79 per gallon for regular, $5.99 for plus, and $6.19 for V-Power. The sign is surrounded by palm trees and greenery, with a blue 'Tap, Pump, Go' payment sign nearby. A banner advertising a $9 car wash special is attached to the sign. In the background, a multi-story building with a sign reading 'Cardiovascular Institute of San Diego' stands among streetlights and urban infrastructure. Part of a car and foliage frame the image in the foreground.

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What will happen to gas prices and taxes if California shifts away from fossil fuels?

California's gas taxes increased this week, but the larger issue is what happens to gas prices and tax revenues as the state attempts to reduce greenhouse gases and move away from fossil fuels.

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Daniel Walters

• 3 de julio de 2024

El Capitolio estatal en Sacrament el 6 de julio de 2022. Foto de Rahul Lal, CalMatters

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La Legislatura de California realiza una serie de grandes cambios en las medidas electorales de noviembre

A wave of last-minute deals, mostly negotiated in secrecy, has changed the lineup of measures that will appear on California's November ballot.

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Daniel Walters

• 2 de julio de 2024

Un campamento para personas sin hogar en W Street y Alhambra Boulevard en Sacramento el 11 de abril de 2023.

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Under Newsom’s governorship, homelessness crisis still haunts California

Homelessness has plagued Gavin Newsom's political career ever since he was mayor of San Francisco. Under his governorship, it has continued haunting him.

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Daniel Walters

• 28 de junio de 2024

Associate Justice Martin J. Jenkins, from left, listens to arguments with Associate Justice Leondra R. Kruger, Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan, Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero, Associate Justice Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice Joshua P. Groban, and Associate Justice Kelli M. Evans at the Supreme Court of California in San Francisco on May 8, 2024. The California Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday about whether to remove a measure from the November ballot that would make it harder for state and local governments to raise taxes. Photo by Jeff Chiu, AP Photo

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Did political bias actually influence California court ruling on anti-tax ballot measure?

Proponents of a ballot measure to limit tax increases claimed the California Supreme Court had political motives in a recent ruling that removed it from the ballot. A careful reading of the decision indicates otherwise.

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Daniel Walters

• 27 de junio de 2024