Dan Walters

California's school children were weak in educational attainment before COVID-19 struck and fell even further behind during the pandemic.

Tolls on San Francisco Bay Area bridges are rising sharply and that could affect the economy of a region still struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three major providers of public services mounted strong campaigns for more state aid, citing financial crises, but the new state budget's outcomes varied greatly.

A new research paper pinpoints how the California Environmental Quality Act collides with another state law to make housing construction more difficult than it should be.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom had to concede defeat on trying to get the Legislature to give a very contentious water tunnel project streamlined regulatory treatment.

As a final California state budget is being negotiated, special interest goodies are being written into it and the dozens of related "trailer bills" that follow.

When the House of Representatives voted last week to censure Rep. Adam Schiff for his investigations of former President Donald Trump, it gave Schiff a big boost in his quest for a U.S. Senate seat.

A constitutional amendment pending in the Legislature would declare a "fundamental human right to housing," but its virtue signaling could backfire in the real world.

California has the nation's worst homelessness crisis. A new UCSF study revealed how so many Californians lost shelter and what should be done about it.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's feud with the Republican governors of Florida and Texas continues. Meanwhile, taxpayers from the three states are paying for their stunts.