Dan Walters

Extremely high construction costs make it difficult for California to solve its housing crisis, but a Supreme Court decision on impact fees could lower some costs.

Technology has slowly made its way into Capitol politics, but access to political data has taken a quantum leap with the introduction of Digital Democracy, an immense, accessible transparency tool created by CalMatters.

While California's Capitol continues to host political struggles over how to deal with the state's housing shortage, the gap continues to widen as demand outpaces construction.

California has created many programs to battle the scourge of homelessness, but a new audit says the agency created to coordinate those programs has failed to do its job.

Hoping to leverage popular resistance to tax increases, business and anti-tax groups in California have qualified a measure for the November ballot that would make raising state and local taxes much more difficult. It's a showdown that's been building for nearly five decades.

California labor groups have their list of priority bills and the California Chamber of Commerce has a list of "job killers" it wants to defeat. Sometimes the two lists collide.

California's water supply is the healthiest it's been this century thanks to two consecutive wet winters, but the state's water interests continue jousting over priorities.

Progressive groups in California seemed to be making headway on their agendas in recent years. But now, with the state facing huge budget deficits, those gains are in jeopardy.

For the past year, debate has raged over plans to impose new fixed charges on electric utility customers based on their incomes. The issue began with a 2022 budget "trailer bill," a process governors and legislators misuse to enact major policy changes without fully debating them.

California's gas prices are spiking again. The state's motorists are not only paying high prices but high fuel taxes and not getting much in return.