Dan Walters

California's politicians have argued for two decades about how to deal with volatility. Should California increase rainy day reserves, or just avoid spending surpluses?

Why is California's lieutenant governor bashing a vice presidential candidate? Why is Oakland plugging a budget hole with Coliseum money? Some official acts merit a second look.

The once-profitable and powerful newspaper industry has been clobbered by the growth of the internet. The California Legislature is considering a bill that would compel major tech companies to pay newspapers for their content.

Chevron, California's oldest and most prominent petroleum company, is moving its headquarters to Texas and the political fallout is unavoidable.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's brags about the state's economy, but its unemployment rate is still the highest in the nation. The fund that pays unemployment insurance benefits also faces an immense deficit.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and fellow Democrats in the Legislature tend to govern by decree, a habit they've criticized in former President Donald Trump.

California's initiative process casts voters as judges of political policy issues. Sometimes they're parsing competing measures on the same topic.

Three of Los Angeles County's five supervisors are supporting a major overhaul of county governance that would almost double the board's size and establish an elected county executive, which would arguably become California’s second-most powerful office.

Many new towns have been created to handle California's population growth. Now the state is losing population, and its latest new town project has stalled.

As California struggles to address its housing shortage, the sky-high costs of housing projects minimize the bang for its bucks.