Dan Walters

California has a big shortage of housing, and a controversial proposal shows it's a tough political nut to crack.

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

Public works project contracts are susceptible to insider dealing, and a pending bill in the Legislature might invite more misbehavior.

How the state's water supplies are divvied up over the next few years could shift them from agriculture to urban use and environmental enhancement.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has promised action on a wide range of societal ills, but now must deliver.

Los Angeles Unified School District wants voters to approve a new tax, but it's undermining its pitch by incompetent—or duplicitous—actions.

Demography is destiny, and California is experiencing it right now. One consequence is a relative decline in political influence.

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

Excluding hydroelectric power from the state's renewable portfolio to reduce greenhouse gases makes no sense. A pending bill would bring some rationality to the situation.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is scaling back a statewide bullet train and twin water tunnels beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. But both still face high hurdles.