Dan Walters

How will California evolve after pandemic, recession and civic unrest abate? We have a choice.

Four years ago, California voters passed a measure to increase legislative transparency. However, a newly drafted measure would undercut its safeguards.

Democrat Gavin Newsom's governorship resembles that of Republican Pete Wilson three decades earlier - setting aside his agenda to deal with a non-stop wave of crises.

Four decades of decisions on government finance created a conflict between the state and five Bay Area counties that Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget proposes to settle.

The COVID-19 recession has put the ambitious plans of Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators in the deep freeze, probably for years.

Theer's a complicated backstory to Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposal to shut down a state veterans home in Barstow.

The socioeconomic disparity between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles metropolitan area was wide before COVID-19 struck and the gap is widening as the pandemic takes its toll.

Would California voters accept tax increases in the midst of a severe recession? That's the question of the moment.

California is accidentally conducting an experiment in parliamentary government, which allows the executive to govern by decree.

California has seen strong population growth for the past 170 years, but new data indicate that we may be reaching our population peak and could begin seeing a drop.