Dan Walters

Four decades of decisions on government finance created a conflict between the state and five Bay Area counties that Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget proposes to settle.

The COVID-19 recession has put the ambitious plans of Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators in the deep freeze, probably for years.

Theer's a complicated backstory to Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposal to shut down a state veterans home in Barstow.

The socioeconomic disparity between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles metropolitan area was wide before COVID-19 struck and the gap is widening as the pandemic takes its toll.

Would California voters accept tax increases in the midst of a severe recession? That's the question of the moment.

California is accidentally conducting an experiment in parliamentary government, which allows the executive to govern by decree.

California has seen strong population growth for the past 170 years, but new data indicate that we may be reaching our population peak and could begin seeing a drop.

A Republican won a special election for a Southern California congressional seat this month, but it would be incorrect to read too much into the outcome.

The California Chamber of Commerce annually designates bills unfriendly to business as "job killers" and has been remarkably successful in defeating them. There are 10 bills on its new list, most related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

California has a big, recession-caused budget problem, but its true dimensions are open to debate.