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GOP’s long slide into irrelevance in California

California once had a strong and successful Republican Party but over the last few decades, it has shrunken to a small minority of voters and if ti loses several congressional races this year, Democrats will have achieved total domination.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 7월 1, 2018

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Weekly Walters 06/29/2018

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

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 6월 29, 2018

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Supreme Court voids California law, upholds free speech

The U.S. Supreme Court struck a blow for free speech when it struck down a California law that requires anti-abortion clinics to tell their clients about the availability of abortion services.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 6월 28, 2018

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Billionaire Soros was a big loser in California vote

International financier George Soros has had some success in his dabbling in California politics. But he "hit a brick wall," as he terms it, in trying to unseat three California district attorneys this year, and his support for challengers may have backfired.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 6월 27, 2018

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California can’t sidestep federal tax impact

California will get hit hard by a new federal tax law that limits deductions for state and local taxes. California politicians had hoped to sidestep the law, but the Internal Revenue Service has squelched that notion.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 6월 25, 2018

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Is Los Angeles Unified too big to fail?

Los Angeles Unified, the state's largest school district, faces a financial meltdown and the question is whether all California taxpayers should bail it out.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 6월 24, 2018

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Weekly Walters 06/22/2018

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

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 6월 22, 2018

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Democrats try to flip California’s second largest county

San Diego County, California's second largest county, has become a microcosm of the state's political profile and its five-member Board of Supervisors has become a battleground in the struggle for partisan control.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 6월 21, 2018

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Budget trailer bills have become Christmas trees

"Trailer bills" to the state budget are meant to enact the budget's financial decisions, but they have become convenient vehicles for enacting non-budgetary laws that have nothing to do with the budget.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 6월 20, 2018

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The Capitol weighs another big, dicey power play

Twenty-two years after the Legislature and then-Gov. Pete Wilson made a horrendous error in reconfiguring California's electric power system, lawmakers are weighing another big change, this time integrating California's grid with those of other Western states. Politicians should be very cautious of the new scheme.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 6월 18, 2018