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Unintended consequences of new privacy law?

California legislators passed a hastily drafted bill purporting to protect Californians' personal and financial data from exposure and exploitation. But it could run afoul of the law of unintended consequences.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 7 月 9, 2018

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Coy about taxes and pension costs

As local government officials ask voters for tax increases, they are reluctant to tell them that the extra revenue is needed to cover pension costs. But one city is not being coy about it.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 7 月 8, 2018

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Weekly Walters 07/06/2018

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

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 7 月 6, 2018

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Did Brown fix California’s budget mess? Nope

Jerry Brown has signed his 16th and final state budget, bragging that he fixed California's financial mess. But that claim, and his claim of securing the state's fiscal future, are overblown.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 7 月 5, 2018

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Genteel extortion cancels three ballot measures

Three initiatives that had qualified for the November ballot were dropped last week after their sponsors negotiated deals with the Legislature. Was it extortion? Not in the criminal sense, perhaps, but it was the adroit use of leverage.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 7 月 4, 2018

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Supreme Court decision could hit unions hard

The U.S. Supreme Court has declared that compelling non-members of public employee unions to pay dues is unconstitutional. California's unions are now scrambling to avoid an erosion of their memberships, their revenues and their political clout.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 7 月 2, 2018

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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.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 7 月 1, 2018

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Weekly Walters 06/29/2018

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

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 6 月 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.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 6 月 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.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 6 月 27, 2018