Dan Walters

Political reaction to a spate of smash-and-grab retail thefts indicates that crime could be a hot button issue in next year's California elections.

California politicians have been jousting over the state's chronic housing shortage but now the debate is turning into a political war.

Los Angeles County has 10 million residents but just five county supervisors. The difficulty of drawing new supervisorial districts underscores the need to enlarge the county's governing board.

One of the sticking points in President Joe Biden's $1.85 trillion social policy legislation is a change in tax law that would have huge effects on California.

California's treasury is awash in money, even as the state's overall economy is sluggish, and the debate is beginning over how to spend the huge surplus.

In 2013, California's system of financing public schools was overhauled in an effort to close the "achievement gap," but we still don't know whether it's working.

Why do California students take on immense debts for college educations that result in jobs that pay so little? Call it "diploma creep."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom could continue to govern by decree indefinitely, eroding the American concept of democracy.

For the second time, an independent commission is drawing new congressional and legislative districts for California and it's been a messy process.

California's unemployment rate, 7.5%, is the nation's highest, but may vastly understate Californians' true economic distress.