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Solving California’s housing crisis demands action. These steps will help

California’s 4.2 percent unemployment rate is at a 10-year low. Wages are accelerating at their fastest pace in nearly a decade. But prospective home buyers continue to see sticker shock, with median prices still hovering in the $530,000 range. The affordability problem must be addressed and fast if California is to remain a place where middle class people can live.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 3월 27, 2019

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Banning paper receipts just more pettifoggery

Banning paper cash register receipts doesn't rise to the level of a legislative solution. It's pettifoggery.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 3월 27, 2019

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We must end bias in the justice system. Here’s one answer

We all have biases. We need to stop pretending that we don’t act on our perceptions. Most of us prejudge, even if those prejudices are unintentional. The good news is that studies also reveal that as people become aware of their unconscious biases, and are reminded of them regularly, they can correct themselves.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 3월 26, 2019

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New path on California water must include Delta communities

Any new path on California water must bring Delta community and fishing interests to the table. We have solutions to offer. We live with the impacts of state water management decisions from loss of recreation to degradation of water quality to collapsing fisheries.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 3월 25, 2019

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California can’t wait for Washington’s approval to control health care spending

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s call in his State of the State speech to restrain health care costs in California is rooted in some eye popping numbers.  The cost of healthcare for a family of four reached $28,000 in 2018. If nothing is done, it will soon be $30,000 and more. This is clearly unsustainable. The governor can take the lead on two issues right now.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 3월 25, 2019

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Can California close its ‘achievement gap’?

A persistent "achievement gap" plagues California schools, but it's uncertain how it can be closed.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 3월 25, 2019

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Fewer California youths are getting arrested. Consequences have gotten more serious for those who are arrested

Violent offenses such as murder, robbery, rape, and assault are declining. Lower-level offenses, especially petty theft, minor vandalism, and minor status offenses like truancy, show the biggest increases in court dispositions per arrest. Yet lesser offenders are exactly the ones most successfully diverted to community-based and restitution programs.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 3월 24, 2019

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Are big tax increases coming to California?

Big tax increases would be needed to pay for the expansionist goals of Capitol Democrats, but they would be a heavy political lift.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 3월 24, 2019

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An execution at Parchman Farm

Anyone who has witnessed an execution never forgets it. The memory of August (Boogie Woogie) LaFontaine's death by lethal gas, pushed far back into the darkest shadows of my mind, came to light again with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement of his moratorium on the state’s death penalty, an action taken in four states in recent years.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 3월 23, 2019

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Weekly Walters 03/22/2019

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

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 3월 22, 2019