Dan Walters

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to decarbonize California's economy but the California Environmental Quality Act is an impediment. So, he wants to streamline the law's application for big public works projects.

After suffering a bout of shingles, Dianne Feinstein's return to the Senate did not stop the calls for her resignation, which would create a huge political problem for Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Two big rivers, the Klamath and the Colorado, are being resuscitated after becoming dangerously unhealthy. In both cases, taxpayers are footing the hefty costs rather than those who profit off the rivers.

With California experiencing a serious budget deficit and the fiscal squeeze tightening, Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators also face demands for billions of more dollars for troubled vital services.

For the past decade, California has spent billions of dollars to improve the education of at-risk children, but there's scant evidence that it had the intended effect.

A two-decade-long battle over California's labor laws, spurred by the Private Attorney General Act, is entering a new phase with a state Supreme Court case and a pending 2024 ballot measure promising to change how they're enforced.

The process of writing budgets for California's state government has become a political quagmire.

Twelve years ago California made a deal with Amazon to establish how to collect sales taxes for online purchases. But while Amazon has become a retail giant in California, the taxation issue still reverberates.

California politicians tend to make decisions in the here and now, without fully exploring long-term consequences of their decrees.

The California Supreme Court has blown the legal whistle on schemes by school officials to evade competitive bidding on school construction projects.