Dan Walters

Rising costs for public employee pensions threaten city services and will require higher taxes.

The factors affecting California's economic future are very volatile, making it difficult to forecast the next recession.

Sponsors of a "split roll" ballot measure to increase property taxes on commercial real estate are withdrawing it from the 2020 ballot and will seek to place a revised version before voters next year.

The Legislature is now in the final month of its 2019 session and many high-profile issues are still pending.

California is spending billions to close the "achievement gap" in the state's K-12 schools but we don't know whether it is having the promised impact.

The draft of a "model curriculum" for ethnic studies in the state's high schools has sparked an outpouring of criticism.

California has a goal of reducing is solid waste stream by 75 percent by 2020 but is falling short of that goal.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Legislature face tough decisions on legislation to speed up housing construction.

Legislators are working on a plan to shift money from California's bedraggled bullet train project to improvements in commuter transit.

California has become a two-tier society with incomes, housing costs, education and ethnicity its markers.