Dan Walters

Four measures on the November ballot purport to address California's housing crisis, but they are minimalist at best, and one would make it worse.

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

Two ballot propositions dealing with union-management conflicts in medical services indicate that it's two easy to place measures before voters. Raising the signature threshold could discourage misuse.

The sensational confirmation battle over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will have political fallout this year, but what is still unknown.

Changing attitudes of white voters shifted California from a Republican-leaning purple state into a deeply blue bastion of resistance to Donald Trump.

California's latest academic test results show that the "achievement gap" in public education is stubborn despite large increases in school spending.

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

Once again, Legislature fiddles with election laws to affect the outcome of contests.

Jerry Brown once espoused a "canoe theory" about politics, paddling left and then right, and practiced in decreeing the fate of more than 1,000 bills during the 16th and final year of his two-part governorship.

Although most California voters appear to oppose new gas taxes and car fees, a misleading title on a ballot measure to repeal them could doom its passage.