Dan Walters

As California's state budget morphs from a $97.5 billion surplus to a multi-billion-dollar deficit, it's another reminder about the volatility of the state's revenue system.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom bragged about California's respect for freedom, but snubbed reporters aren't buying it.

The California Air Resources Board's "scoping plan" for achieving carbon neutrality by 2045 is long on data and promises and short on all-important details.

Two recent appellate court cases underscore the chaotic role that the California Environmental Quality Act plays in construction of much-needed housing.

Proposition 13, an iconic tax limitation measure passed by California voters 44 years ago, is still generating legal and political skirmishes.

The series of rain and snow storms buffeting California this month contains lessons for politicians, if they pay attention.

California's current state budget was enacted six months ago on the assumption that the state had a massive surplus, but it now faces a multi-billion-dollar deficit.

As a new year dawns, a raft of serious, even existential, old problems demand attention from California's politicians.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature passed a gun control law that was aimed at shaming a Texas law on abortion. A federal judge has now brought and end to the political posturing.

The biggest mystery in California's struggle to maintain water supplies is what will happen to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.