Dan Walters

California's high-flying economy has crashed into the coronavirus and the effect is dramatic. But how long will it last and what will be the net effect?

Elections between competing factions of Democrats are the most interesting political duels in California, as three examples in Southern California show.

While the federal government and President Donald Trump take their lumps for failure to prepare for the pandemic, California officials, including former Gov. Jerry Brown, also were lax.

Two major actions should help PG&E's emergence from bankruptcy — a deal with Gov. Newsom and a guilty plea for the Camp Fire. But what then?

The economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis has revealed problems in three sectors of the state government's finances that have long been ignored.

Among the coronavirus pandemic's many effects, it will alter the November election by keeping some proposals off the ballot and making approval for tax and bond measures more difficult.

Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom caused alarm and confusion for Californians while making pronouncements about dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.

The coronavirus crisis has quickly and radically changed how Californians work, but its impacts are uneven and no one knows how it plays out in the long run.

Wrongheaded efforts are being made to dumb down the requirements for obtaining a teaching credential, and that would hurt kids who are already falling behind.

Gov. Newsom winning well-deserved plaudits for handling the coronavirus pandemic but a forecast recession could put his agenda on hold.