Arnold Schwarzenegger

A deadly ski season in California raises urgent questions. Why doesn’t the state track resort injuries or deaths, and who’s protecting people on the slopes?

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the campaign for Proposition 50 to be a battle between him and President Donald Trump. Republicans say they need to win over voters another way.

A trio of California Democratic lawmakers say they’re frustrated by high cost estimates that helped kill their health care legislation. Did the Newsom administration inflate the numbers to quietly kill the bills?

California’s Nov. 8 election is less than two weeks away, but battle lines are already being drawn for elections in 2024 and beyond. Here’s a look at two key fights: First up: Not so fast, fast food companies. That was the message sent Thursday by the state’s largest labor union, SEIU California, when it asked […]

Lea este artículo en español. The only California governor to ever be recalled has some thoughts about how the process could be reformed.  But don’t expect Gray Davis to pity politicians facing an effort to oust them from office.  “When you run for office in California, you know the people have the first and last word […]

The Democrats have botched their recall options: No prominent Democrat officially has entered the recall race. As a result, conservative talk-show host Larry Elder, the leading contender, could be elected with 18% of the vote.

California law should be changed to require the lieutenant governor to serve if a recall is successful. It would stop gubernatorial recall abuse, focus both political parties on winning general elections and avoid many of the $215 million in costs for this exercise in democracy.

The governor won't get "Democrat" listed next to his name on the recall ballot, rules the same judge who gave recall proponents more time to collect signatures.

While the governor's opponents have burned through most of the money they've collected to date, his defenders have some $2.5 million in the bank.

It’s not too late for the state Legislature to fix this messy way of conducting a recall election: Here is a simple home-grown solution.