Dan Walters

The "true believers" that philosopher Eric Hoffer defined seven decades ago threaten to undermine civic and political life.

The dream of progressives to make California more like Western Europe suffered a setback when two of their priority bills, including single-payer health care, stalled out in the state Assembly.

Would a new centrally managed health care program be any more effective than the Employment Development Department or the state's other bungling bureaucracies?

Gov. Gavin Newsom is the man in the middle of an intense battle over payments to rooftop solar panel owners for their excess power.

With Gov. Gavin Newsom a shoo-in for re-election the year's most significant statewide race will be for attorney general while its most interesting will be for insurance commissioner.

Another heated confrontation over vaccinations is looming in California's Capitol and once again Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to straddle the fence.

California has the nation's highest poverty rate, COVID-19 has hit poor families the hardest and they must now contend with escalating inflation of living costs.

Downtown Sacramento has been hard hit by COVID-19, stalling its recovery from years of decay. Can it snap back?

Gov. Gavin Newsom is creating a new system to collect data on education that should tell Californians how well schools are performing, but healthy skepticism is warranted.

California's liberal politicians are talking tough on criminals as the state sees an upsurge in robberies, homicides and other crimes.