Dan Walters

California voters and politicians tend to issue sweeping policy changes but then settle for half-a-loaf implementation.

It appeared that California voters would be deciding two multi-billion-dollar tax increases next year, but one was dropped and the second is not a slam dunk winner.

Forty years ago today, a year-long power struggle erupted in the state Assembly, one that fundamentally changed the Capitol's culture.

Walters: The mother of all medical-care battles will erupt if Gov. Gavin Newsom tries to make good on his campaign promise to install a single-payer system.

Are California's voters getting turned off by constant pleas for new taxes? A new study of what happened in very affluent, very liberal Marin County suggests that they "tax exhaustion" may be developing.

Local government officials complain about rising pension costs but shy away from telling voters that is why they need to pay more taxes.

California voters will once again weigh in on crime and punishment next year./ A referendum sponsored by the bail bond industry seeks to overturn a new law eliminating cash bail.

Contradictory positions by local courts mean the state Supreme Court must clarify legal ambiguity about tax elections that it created.

The state has more than enough money to finance the 2020-21 budget, so the issue will be whether to save or spend a surplus. Schools will be clamoring for more aid.

The decline of California's Republican Party has been dramatic and it seems destined to remain irrelevant.