Dan Walters

California's 45-year-long war over tax restrictions will be placed before voters next year. But a new appellate court ruling has also opened a new source of conflict.

California voters last year rejected a ballot measure that could have settled a long-running feud between casino-owning tribes and poker parlors. Now the battle over betting turf is being revived in the Legislature with a tribe-backed bill.

With personal income growth stagnant and prices still rising, California's economy is trailing many national trends moving the other direction.

As California's war over land use authority rages on, critics of the state's housing quotas are turning to voters and lower population projections to undercut them.

If California Gov. Gavin Newsom debates Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, expect the state's homelessness crisis to be a major point of conflict.

Sunshine is giving way to darkness as California's politicians and bureaucrats try to make it more difficult for the public and the media to find out what they are doing.

Gov. Gavin Newsom quickly acted when the Temecula school board barred textbooks referencing Harvey Milk. But when California's schools remained shuttered longer than other states during the pandemic, Newsom refused to buck teacher unions.

A burgeoning scandal in the city of Anaheim is the latest in a string of municipal corruption cases that have become commonplace in Southern California.

California voters will face a slew of ballot measures next year, all of which are essentially replays of old ideological clashes.

As California's budget faces years of operating deficits, politicians may be tempted to borrow money to cover them, but that would be a misuse of the state's bonding authority.