Dan Walters

Jerry Brown's unwillingness to monitor how local school districts are educating their students is giving way to successor Gavin Newsom's pledge to increase accountability.

California school districts set poor example for their students when they overspend revenues and then seek bailouts from Sacramento and/or voters.

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo blames a shortfall in state income tax revenues on the flight of rich taxpayers to Florida because federal tax laws no longer allow them to write off state and local taxes. What about California?

Darrell Steinberg has an ambitious agenda as mayor of Sacramento, but as he works on it, he must deal with the fact that he has little executive authority.

California's prisons are supposed to be rehabilitating inmates, not merely warehousing them, but a new report from the state auditor says it's not effectively reducing recidivism among those released from the system.

The gap between the assets of the California Public Employees Retirement System and its liabilities for pension payments has widened again, and a new Federal Reserve calculation indicates that it may much wider.

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

Willie Brown, former speaker of the state Assembly and former mayor of San Francisco, played key roles in the political careers of Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris and now has seen his proteges become national political figures.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has raised the bar on himself for dealing with California's chronic lack of housing. His success or failure will be easily measured.