Dan Walters

California is borrowing billions of dollars from the federal government to cover unemployment insurance benefits to jobless workers, but how it will be repaid remains uncertain.

While Gov. Gavin Newsom renews his pledge to attack California's housing crisis, a bureaucratic mess and labor union demands are impediments to construction.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is celebrating the latest employment report, but it's not as bright as he claims.

California schools will be getting a massive infusion of money under Gov. Gavin Newsom's newly revised budget, but will they spend it on closing the "achievement gap?"

Gov. Gavin Newsom's "$100 Billion California Comeback Plan" is based on an assumption of healthy new revenues, but a volatile tax system makes predicting them very difficult.

Inflated job creation numbers help keep California's bullet train project alive despite lack of justification.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom boasts of a $75.7 billion state budget surplus, but the Legislature's budget analyst says the true surplus is half that size.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom loves to show off and his latest example is the elaborate rollout of a revised state budget that he touts as historic and transformational.

The school year will end soon and most of California's 6 million public school students are still trying to learn at home.

California lost population last year, but it's not a sudden event. Rather, the state has been heading that way for decades.