Tag: Dan Walters
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Renewal of California cap and trade program to cut emissions is fraught with issues
While the Capitol is fixated on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s drive to rearrange California’s...
Read MoreCalifornia budget papers over $20B deficit, ignores day of reckoning
When Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders were drafting a more-or-less final 2025-26 state...
Read MoreHow California’s fire response could make or break the careers of several politicians
“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” Stanford economist Paul Romer said at a venture...
Read MoreTax loopholes cost California and its cities $107 billion but get little scrutiny
Among the hundreds of bills introduced in every session of the California Legislature, a few deal...
Read MoreNewsom uses a stunt to position himself as a leader of anti-Trump resistance
Two days after the nation’s voters gave Donald Trump another term as president, Gov....
Read MoreShould tech giants have to pay California newspapers for content?
When I began my journalism career 64 years ago, newspapers were virtual licenses to print money...
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High school free speech controversy jogs memories of my start in journalism
Students at Sacramento’s McClatchy High School learned last month that if officialdom feels...
Read MoreResidents worried about crime sets stage for ballot measure showdown
Democrats completely dominate California’s state government, and one aspect of that hegemony is...
Read MoreFewer students, higher absenteeism plague public school financing
California’s public schools live – or die – by the numbers. They are utterly dependent on how much...
Read MoreCalifornia spends billions on homelessness yet the crisis keeps getting worse
California not only has the nation’s largest number of homeless people, but one of its highest...
Read MoreState’s worker shortage has quickly become an existential issue
Millions of Americans watched last weekend as NFL teams played the final games of their regular...
Read MoreFeinstein always did things her way in a long political career
It won’t happen, but a fitting tribute to Dianne Feinstein, California’s longest-serving U.S....
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