Dan Walters

Gov. Gavin Newsom repeatedly chants that California is "roaring back" from pandemic, but ignores the state's stubborn socioeconomic problems.

California's budgetary package is slowly dribbling out of the Capitol but one big issue, the fate of the state's bullet train project, is still up in the air.

As online retail sales soar in California, how should taxes on those sales be allocated?

A squabble between two blocs of politically influential California unions is an example of the pot calling the kettle black.

A new study from UC-Berkeley reveals that California communities remain highly segregated and the redrawing of congressional and legislative districts will reinforce that phenomenon.

Does Gov. Gavin Newsom deserved to be recalled three years into his first term, and does the recall have a chance of success?

As California water interests joust over management of the state's supply, two decrees from Washington change the game.

Industrialists David and Charles Koch won their duel with California's attorney general when the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a regulation aimed at forcing the brothers' non-profit political group, Americans for Prosperity, to reveal its donors.

The state budget makes clear that Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators favor the left in conflict over how criminal cases should be handled.

California's state budget is accompanied by "trailer bills," which have become vehicles for special interest goodies having little or nothing to do with the budget.