Dan Walters

California voters have long rejected raising taxes — or tried limiting them — via the ballot box. Propositions 40 and 42 keep up that trend.

Xavier Becerra has won California's race for governor. Just days after he is inaugurated in January, he will have to submit a new budget. He faces a stark choice.

The state's Water Resources Control Board passed a revised water flow plan, but both farmers and environmentalists dislike it. Newsom wants to portray it as a truce.

For those who just want effective governance that addresses the multitude of challenges California faces, the campaign season has been drearily disappointing.

New laws expanding bachelor's degrees community colleges can offer contain so many conditions, they added to the conflict among the schools.

Los Rios Community College District's ballot language saying a proposed $1.1 billion in bonds will cause "no increase in tax rates" isn't aboveboard.

At the end of the legislative session, a bill failed that Gov. Gavin Newsom had hoped would reduce utilities' financial hit when their equipment starts fires.

Affordability challenges are clashing with policies to slow climate change, causing a slowdown in California's major emissions reduction program.

Proposition 40 has a gauntlet to run to succeed, including surviving two poison-pill propositions. If it passes, it will probably be challenged in court.

President Donald Trump wants California to segregate 20,000 ballots, claiming they may come from noncitizens. Federal officers charged 28 suspects with voter fraud this week.