Dan Walters

Unemployment has tripled since COVID-19 struck, but there was an uptick in May. So what's next for the California economy?

Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced this week that they have a deal on a new state budget to take effect on July 1. Facing the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic plunge, they said, “we have agreed on a budget that is balanced, responsible and protects core services — education, health care, social […]

Southeastern Los Angeles County is a "corridor of corruption," in the words of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. The Legislaure is finally doing something about one example.

Facing a vicious circle of conflicting demands and priorities, the California Public Employees Retirement System is turning to debt - a risky scheme to borrow billions of dollars in hopes of juicing its investment returns.

The Legislature has passed a placeholder state budget that protects lawmakers from losing ther salaries, but the end game may be a battle over taxes.

California clearly has problem with police violence and it will be up to the Democrats who control the state's politics to fix it.

A final version of the new state budget is still being negotiated, but it's evident that it will include billions of dollars in new state debt.

A new resolution supported by most state assembly members could be the beginning of the end for California's much-troubled bullet train project.

Advocates of governmental transparency scored two recent wins, one of which will affect the aftermath of George Floyd demonstrations.

The George Floyd suffocation protests generate both opportunity and peril for politicians, including those in California.