Dan Walters

Commentary

School districts set poor example for students

California school districts set poor example for their students when they overspend revenues and then seek bailouts from Sacramento and/or voters.

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Dan Walters

• February 10, 2019

Commentary

Weekly Walters 02/08/2019

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

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Dan Walters

• February 8, 2019

Commentary

Will the one-percenters flee California’s high taxes?

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo blames a shortfall in state income tax revenues on the flight of rich taxpayers to Florida because federal tax laws no longer allow them to write off state and local taxes. What about California?

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Dan Walters

• February 7, 2019

Commentary

Weak authority undermines Sacramento Mayor’s agenda

Darrell Steinberg has an ambitious agenda as mayor of Sacramento, but as he works on it, he must deal with the fact that he has little executive authority.

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Dan Walters

• February 6, 2019

Commentary

So far, prison inmate rehab isn’t working

California's prisons are supposed to be rehabilitating inmates, not merely warehousing them, but a new report from the state auditor says it's not effectively reducing recidivism among those released from the system.

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Dan Walters

• February 4, 2019

Commentary

Could California pension system be underwater?

The gap between the assets of the California Public Employees Retirement System and its liabilities for pension payments has widened again, and a new Federal Reserve calculation indicates that it may much wider.

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Dan Walters

• February 3, 2019

Commentary

Weekly Walters 02/01/2019

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

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Dan Walters

• February 1, 2019

Commentary

Willie Brown sees protégés rise to the top

Willie Brown, former speaker of the state Assembly and former mayor of San Francisco, played key roles in the political careers of Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris and now has seen his proteges become national political figures.

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Dan Walters

• January 31, 2019

Commentary

Newsom raises the housing bar on himself

Gov. Gavin Newsom has raised the bar on himself for dealing with California's chronic lack of housing. His success or failure will be easily measured.

By

Dan Walters

• January 30, 2019

Students are joining teachers in the rain today on the picket line at Marshall High School in Los Angeles, as an LAUSD teachers strike began. Photo by David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News

Commentary

Los Angeles Unified digs a deeper hole

Los Angeles Unified School District's teacher strike has been settled, but the cost deepens the district's financial hole.

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Dan Walters

• January 28, 2019