Dan Walters

This year's political campaigns in California have hit a low mark for relevance and a high mark for vapidity — with one exception.

A decades-old conflict over how to teach reading to young children, dubbed "reading wars," is being resolved in California by a shift to phonics.

Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrates an article indicating that California's economy could soon become the 4th largest in the world. But he ignores another report that new stock issuances in the state's high-tech industry have plummeted.

A battle over a 27-story high-rise residential project in downtown San Francisco could become a statewide political issue.

Federal officials are warning California and other states that use Colorado River water to sharply reduce diversions or the government will act unilaterally. California would take the biggest hit.

After consuming more than a half-billion dollars on pro and con campaigns, Propositions 26 and 27, rival sports wagering measures, appear to be doomed.

Two newspaper articles, one in the Los Angeles Times and another in the New York Times, describe how California's housing crisis developed and why it's so difficult to resolve.

Kevin de León, an extraordinarily ambitious politician, is now facing demands that he end his career due to participation in a political meeting with racist overtones.

The latest academic test results administered by federal and state governments indicate again that California has a severe and potentially disastrous crisis in public education.

In 2018, California voters passed a law barring sales of pork products from hogs not reared in prescribed humane conditions. The U.S. Supreme Court now is weighing whether the law unconstitutionally interferes with interstate commerce.