There’s nothing new about political jousting over shares of a limited but valuable resource. For instance, Californians have been squabbling for decades over divvying up water...
The California Legislature will reconvene Monday for what may be its most unusual session in the state’s 170-year history. Even the manner of its first meeting...
It is remarkable — even amazing — that as Democrat Joe Biden rang up a nearly 2-to-1 victory over Republican President Donald Trump in California this...
An alternative view of California’s public school system is that it is a huge industry with six million customers who spend more than $100 billion a...
In real life politics, as opposed to the textbook variety, hard fact is much less important than image or, as political pros put it, “optics.” We...
The jousting over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s appointment of a U.S. senator to succeed Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is fast becoming the epitome — or nadir —...
Proposition 15 would have been the largest tax increase in California history and its defeat this month was, by any definition, a huge setback for its...
Decades of political conflict over the fate of four obsolete dams on the Klamath River reached a turning point last week with a multi-party, two-state “memorandum of...
As Gov. Gavin Newsom makes the final decisions on writing a 2021-22 budget, he’s receiving some good revenue news from his beancounters. During the first four months of...
Twenty-two years ago, on the day after Gray Davis was elected governor of California, I hopped aboard a Southwest Airlines plane bound for Los Angeles. I...
