Dan Walters

Jerry Brown's political career got off to fast start, thanks to sharing his father's name, but the relationship between the two was complex.

After a long absence from politics and stint on talk radio, Jerry Brown rekindled his career by running for mayor of Oakland.

Jerry Brown made three failed bids to become president, but if he had played the game differently, he might have made it.

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

Jerry Brown's half-century of dealing with the political media culminated this week with an open-ended interrogation before the Sacramento Press Club.

The passage rate for California's licensing test for lawyers has plummeted to an all-time low and law school deans, worried about losing accreditation, are urging the state Supreme Court to lower the test's minimum passing score.

A many-sided battle over control of Tres Hermanos, a 2,500-acre Southern California cattle ranch, is business as usual in southeastern Los Angeles County.

California will suffer economically if it doesn't do something about its chronic and growing housing shortage, as a new report on Ventura County's economy shows.

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

Cases pending before the state Supreme Court could have a huge impact on the pensions of public employees. They specifically involve challenges to a mild pension reform sponsored by Gov. Jerry Brown but could result in a broader ruling that would open the door to pension benefit reductions.