Dan Walters

Jerry Brown's governorship was blessed by an expanding economy, but successor Gavin Newsom may not be so lucky.

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

Jerry Brown's legacy as the state's longest serving governor will depend on how the policy changes he launched turn out in the long run.

Jerry Brown's political career got off to fast start, thanks to sharing his father's name, but the relationship between the two was complex.

After a long absence from politics and stint on talk radio, Jerry Brown rekindled his career by running for mayor of Oakland.

Jerry Brown made three failed bids to become president, but if he had played the game differently, he might have made it.

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

Jerry Brown's half-century of dealing with the political media culminated this week with an open-ended interrogation before the Sacramento Press Club.

The passage rate for California's licensing test for lawyers has plummeted to an all-time low and law school deans, worried about losing accreditation, are urging the state Supreme Court to lower the test's minimum passing score.

A many-sided battle over control of Tres Hermanos, a 2,500-acre Southern California cattle ranch, is business as usual in southeastern Los Angeles County.