Dan Walters

President Donald Trump often excoriates journalists when the point out his errors and falsehoods, and now California's new governor, Gavin Newsom, is becoming a gaslighter.

Last year, the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown virtually repealed California's "felony murder" law, but a judge has ruled that the repeal is unconstitutional.

Gavin Newsom has a very ambitious agenda as governor, but ambitious governors haven't fared very well in the past.

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

The decades-long alliance between Democratic politicians and police unions has been eroded, as two legislative battles illustrate.

Gov. Gavin Newsom lays out ambitious agenda that sets a high mark for his political future.

Jerry Brown's unwillingness to monitor how local school districts are educating their students is giving way to successor Gavin Newsom's pledge to increase accountability.

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

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

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?