Dan Walters

Legislators are working on a plan to shift money from California's bedraggled bullet train project to improvements in commuter transit.

California has become a two-tier society with incomes, housing costs, education and ethnicity its markers.

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is being hammered by allegations that he took campaign contributions from insurance industry sources and favored contributors.

California scored a tactical win in its climate change fight with Donald Trump over auto emissions, but the game of political chicken continues.

California's Unemployment Insurance Fund is the nation's least solvent. Even a tiny economic downturn would drive it into the red.

The University of California implicitly denies jobs or promotions to those who don't enthusiastically endorse "diversity," however that's defined.

State and local tax revenue is up sharply—at odds with the propaganda from those who want to tax more.

A bill requiring presidential candidates to reveal their tax returns is the latest conflict between Donald Trump and California Democrats.

A bill to abolish a controversial reading instruction test for teaching credential applicants died amidst a firestorm of criticism.

The bottom line of another electric utility overhaul is uncertain.