Dan Walters

California's high poverty rate stems mostly from its high cost of living and blue state policies impose extra living costs on the poor.

California's year of pandemic, recession and civic unrest also includes angst over the outcome of the 2020 census. The state likely will lose at least one congressional seat and perhaps two.

Gov. Gavin Newsom says the new California state budget is balanced, but in reality it has a huge deficit that will be covered by indirect borrowing.

Will California's public schools, with 6 million students, reopen after shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic? Or will stay-at-home classes continue?

California's COVID-19 epicenter is Imperial County, an impoverished agricultual oasis with an unusual history.

California's unemployment insurance system, already weak, has been overwhelmed by a flood of claims for payments due to the COVID-19 recession.

California voters face 12 statewide ballot measures this year and all but two rehash old political battles.

Five California counties got a huge windfall from miscalculating how local property taxes are divvied up with schools. Under a legislative deal, they will keep most of the extra money.

California Gov.Gavin now owns the state's version of the COVID-19 pandemic. How he handles it will define his governorship.

California's law to improve the educations of poor and English-learner students is not being enforced by state officials.