Dan Walters

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.

California has experienced population and economic growth for virtually all of its 173-year history, but now may be facing prolonged stagnation.

California adopted a master plan for its higher education system more than six decades ago, but its vision has never materialized. It's time to square the plan with 21st-century realities.

The state budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in June largely uses gimmicks to bridge a big deficit, and hopes increasing revenues in the future will make it work. However, his own administration sees a string of deficits in the future.

California state Sen. Steve Glazer recently pointed out that his Democratic Party is prone to spending money on problems while ignoring whether it works.