Dan Walters

As California politicians boast about nation-leading policies, they are also unwinding older policies that once led the nation.

Faced with myriad social pathologies, California will try a new approach - more integrated and aggressive treatment.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's new budget would spend nearly $300 billion in the 2022-23 fiscal year, but will the revenues support the plan?

California's huge public school system is in crisis, with declining academic achievement and financial squeezes, but Gov. Gavin Newsom new budget gives it short shrift.

The notion of creating a single-payer, state-managed health care system for 40 million Californians is on the political agenda again.

Elaine Howle has retired as California's auditor but left behind a report that once again castigates the state's failures in implementing high technology.

California relishes its self-proclaimed propensity for leading-edge policymaking, but there are drawbacks to going it alone.

As California deals with new waves of crime and COVID-19, the Legislature reconvenes and must decide how to spend a multi-billion-dollar windfall of tax revenues.

Newly redrawn congressional and legislative districts will create turnover in political offices, but changing faces will not alter the balance of power in California.

The California Public Utilities Commission probably will side with major utilities by reducing payments to owners of rooftop solar systems for their excess power.