My-turn

Will California live up to its promise as a forward-looking leader setting the pace? Two major police reform bills in the Legislature will tell the tale.

Radical new ways of funding infrastructure investment must be central to any agenda for an equitable economic recovery. Here’s what the state can do.

It’s time for our state’s energy regulators and leaders to plan for a better-engineered system based on physics rather than wishful thinking.

California’s economic recovery urgently depends on restoring lost clean energy jobs and actively pursuing additional clean energy investment.

The primary path to the middle class for American families is through property ownership. However, for many African Americans, Latinos and other minorities, the opportunity has been out of reach because of discriminatory housing laws and economic inequality.  It’s alarming that a measure on the November ballot would make this lack of access worse and […]

If we are serious about avoiding blackouts and continuing our progress toward an emission-free grid, we must expand nuclear and hydroelectric power.

If we are going to meet California’s urgent power needs, we cannot relegate hydropower, our most affordable and reliable clean power, to second-class status.

The solution to rolling blackouts is to shift industrial demand to when our grid can handle it and rapidly expand our clean energy resources.

Several revenue proposals are on the table for California to confront the crises created by systemic inequities compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new study found that California colleges are doing a middling job of directing students toward optimal and up-to-date options for math courses.