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A political deal comes full circle

It was late one night 40 years ago and Gov. Jerry Brown’s most important piece of legislation was in trouble. Brown wanted the Legislature to approve a 42-mile-long “peripheral canal” to carry water around the environmentally fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, thus closing the last major gap in the massive state water system that had been […]

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 6월 3, 2019

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‘Moving the rain,’ creating California

We Californians grabbed nothing less than the edge of a continent, 1,000 miles in length. Highest mountain, lowest desert, longest coast, most epic valley, riparian forest, redwood forest, wetland, grassland and inland sea. The rain fell 125 inches a year in one place and seven inches a year in the other place. A land this crazy makes people crazy.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 6월 2, 2019

Interest rate limit doesn’t fix poverty

Limiting interest rates on loans to the poor is a sincere effort, but it does nothing about the state's high poverty level.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 6월 2, 2019

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Weekly Walters 05/31/2019

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

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 5월 31, 2019

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Women are about to achieve a milestone in the state Senate

With an expected Senate special election victory in June, the ranks of female political role models will inch higher at the Capitol and an even broader array of issues may gain attention. Still, when combined with the 2018 electoral successes, women will comprise fewer than one-third of the 120-member Legislature.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 31, 2019

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Many reasons why Sanders is wrong choice for California Democrats

Democrats should cast a particularly critical eye on Sen. Bernie Sanders. Support for Sanders’ policies will decline under more intense scrutiny, especially his signature Medicare for All plan.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 30, 2019

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A new front in battle over gig workers

The battle over California's "gig economy" is underway in the Legislature and a new front has been opened in the California Public Employees Retirement System.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 5월 30, 2019

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California Assembly’s new rules have led to legislative censorship

New Assembly rules provide the chairs of committees with the discretion to arbitrarily decide whether to set a bill for hearing or not, without any justification. While most committee chairs are even-handed and set all the bills that have been referred to them, this is not always the case. The saying, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," applies.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 29, 2019

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Secrecy abounds on state budget, major bills

Welcome to Sacramento, where the state budget is written in secret and decisions on important bills are made behind closed doors.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 5월 29, 2019

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Don’t dumb-down smart speakers

Voice recognition systems have streamlined our daily activities, from turning on the lights to important reminders about taking medications. Assembly Bill 1395 by Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, a Republican from San Luis Obispo, could halt this technology’s advancement.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 28, 2019