Dan Walters

The notion of bypassing the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to move water from Northern California to Southern California has been kicking around for decades. It finally seems to be approaching the critical moment.

Two pending California Supreme Court cases have again raised the issue of whether there should be restrictions on the use of the initiative process to make new laws.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has publicly shunned tax increases to cover California's multibillion-dollar deficit, yet his budget proposal contains billions of dollars of indirect tax increases on businesses.

Public school funding is the largest chunk of California's state budget. It's also the most contentious, as a new squabble over Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget proposal indicates.

As California Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators contend with a deficit-ridden state budget, they can't count on a booming economy.

A massive miscalculation in revenue forecasting allowed California Gov. Gavin Newsom to boast of a $97.5 budget surplus that ultimately never materialized. It has since become a $44.9 billion deficit.

California's Public Utilities Commission has approved a new electric power billing plan based on incomes. Its controversial mostly because of the sneaky way in which the Legislature authorized it.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing nearly $34 billion in spending cuts over a two-year span to close a massive budget deficit. Those affected are unhappy.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a revised state budget that increases the projected deficit by billions of dollars and contained real cuts, something his initial version mostly lacked.

State education officials are intervening to address San Francisco Unified's chronic budget problems and stave off insolvency. But it's not the only example of fiscal mismanagement in California K-12 system.