Dan Walters

California's local officials routinely use taxpayer dollars for ballot measure campaigns, even though it's illegal. One agency just got fined.

California politicians are waging a campaign against Uber, Lyft and other gig economy companies in advance of voters' decision on Proposition 22.

An embarrassing glitch in reporting COVID-19 infection data is the latest in a long string of state information technology failures.

California's public pension system faces a huge unfunded debt but dealing with it involves increasing risk.

California's plan for "ethnic studies" has been revised in response to criticism but is still colored by leftish ideology.

California's education department has ruled that Los Angeles Unified School District's plan for educating at-risk kids is deficient - a warning to other school systems.

The California Capitol's dominant Democrats are facing a prolonged fiscal crisis and are debating whether to borrow heavily or tax the rich to generate more spendable dollars.

The mayors of two large California cities, Sacramento and San Jose, want to become "strong mayors" with executive authority, but are learning that it's politically difficult.

In just a few weeks, California's economy went from boom to bust, leaving Californians wondering what the future holds.

California's legislative leaders are proposing a $100 billion "economic stimulus plan" financed by massive new borrowing. What could possibly go wrong?