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Commentary: Census question becomes another Trump-California conflict

In the superheated conflict between President Donald Trump and the nation state of California, no issue is too trivial. Every week, it seems, brings some new point of friction, giving the combatants another opportunity to issue searing denunciations and file new lawsuits. Last week was no exception. The Trumpies announced plans to add a citizenship […]

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 4 月 2, 2018

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Commentary: California booms, but when will it bust again?

California’s economy is booming with record-high employment, record-low unemployment and billions of extra tax dollars flowing into the state treasury. The official jobless rate dropped to 4.3 percent in February, only slightly above the national rate of 4.1 percent and nearly a full percentage point lower than it was a year earlier. “The record low […]

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 4 月 1, 2018

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Commentary: Would today’s California voters change Proposition 13?

A proposed ballot measure would raise property taxes on commercial sites such as retail stores, warehouses and factories but not on homeowners.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 3 月 29, 2018

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Commentary: Feinstein leads in Senate race but is dodging bullets from the left

Left-wingers, who have never liked Feinstein's pragmatic approach, are incensed by her apparent unwillingness to fully embrace the "resistance" to President Trump.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 3 月 28, 2018

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Commentary: Local tax hikes cleverly packaged

Over the past few years, voters in hundreds of California cities and other local governments were asked to pass tax increases, and indications are that another big batch of local tax measures will be on this year’s ballots. All but a handful of the previous tax hikes were approved, although one failed sales tax, in […]

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 3 月 26, 2018

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Commentary: Politicians ignore looming higher ed crisis

The Assembly Higher Education Committee unanimously endorsed Assembly Bill 1936 this month, which would seem to bode well for its enactment. It would create an Office of Higher Education Performance and Accountability to plan how California is to meet its ever-rising demand for post-high school education and coordinate the state’s three college and university systems. […]

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 3 月 25, 2018

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Commentary: Politicos can’t pick and choose on civil rights

California’s Democratic politicians frequently proclaim their fervent support for tolerance and acceptance of those outside the cultural mainstream. Increasingly, however, they exhibit intolerance of those who disagree with their party’s orthodoxy, even to the point of infringing on their constitutional rights. That tendency was on display this week in the U.S. Supreme Court as California […]

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 3 月 22, 2018

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Commentary: It’s open season for political tricksters

Highly paid political consultants dream up ways to lure voters into doing something they would not otherwise be likely, or even willing, to do.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 3 月 21, 2018

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Commentary: Do as we say, not as we do

The sexual harassment scandal that’s enveloped the Capitol exposes an unsavory aspect of the building’s culture that had been hidden for decades. It’s also exposed another, equally unseemly trait – the Legislature’s routine exemption of itself from laws it imposes on everyone else. Although, for instance, legislative leaders agreed that complaints about harassment should be […]

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 3 月 19, 2018

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Commentary: How pension costs clobbered one small city

When Santa Cruz, a picturesque and funky coastal city, first started to feel the pinch of rising retirement costs for city workers, it took several steps to limit the fiscal pain. As recommended by the League of Cities and other authorities, Santa Cruz issued a bond to pay down its rising pension liabilities, set aside […]

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 3 月 18, 2018