Dan Walters

Californians bear one of the nation's highest tax burdens and two new polls indicate they are resenting it.

Fingers of blame are being pointed about the early prison release of a man accused of being one of the shooters in a downtown Sacramento gang shootout. But the politician most responsible is former Gov. Jerry Brown.

Expansive projections of California's population growth have been proven wrong and if anything, the state is now losing population with serious social and economic impacts.

California has the nation's most restrictive gun laws but they have failed to stem the increase in gun ownership, the availability of illegal guns by criminals or gun violence.

A law that Gray Davis signed in 2003, five days after voters decided to oust him from the governorship, is the the subject of new political and legal conflicts.

Gov. Gavin Newsom claims progress on settling California's decades-long conflict over water allocation but it's a partial deal at best

As California Gov. Gavin Newsom rolls out numerous new programs and expands existing ones, is the state biting off more than it can chew?

Each year, the California Chamber of Commerce issues a list of "job killers" - bills the business community dislikes the most - and their fate is a guide to the Legislature's ideological orientation.

Gov. Gavin Newsom portrays California's latest job numbers as proof of a vigorous economic recovery, but as usual the facts tell a more nuanced story.

California politicians are falling all over themselves to send cash to car owners and/or taxpayers to offset a sharp increase in gasoline prices but it might take months for a final plan to be adopted.