Dan Walters

Gov. Gavin Newsom's commission on remaking California's health care system just provided options rather than a clear pathway to change.

Declining enrollment in California's public schools pose a financial dilemma for local school systems and political issue for the governor and the Legislature.

While Marion Joseph, a fierce advocate for phonics in reading instruction, has died, one California school district's experience validates her position.

Two new reports indicate that California taxpayers are not getting much bang for the billions of bucks they spend on public services.

A new poll found that Californians' worries about COVID-19 have receded, but their attention has shifted to some old issues and two new ones, crime and gas prices.

Californians bear one of the nation's highest tax burdens and two new polls indicate they are resenting it.

Fingers of blame are being pointed about the early prison release of a man accused of being one of the shooters in a downtown Sacramento gang shootout. But the politician most responsible is former Gov. Jerry Brown.

Expansive projections of California's population growth have been proven wrong and if anything, the state is now losing population with serious social and economic impacts.

California has the nation's most restrictive gun laws but they have failed to stem the increase in gun ownership, the availability of illegal guns by criminals or gun violence.

A law that Gray Davis signed in 2003, five days after voters decided to oust him from the governorship, is the the subject of new political and legal conflicts.