The dichotomy between blue and red states – in essence California vs. Florida and Texas – has played out in many arenas on many specific iss...

Every recent legislative session has produced at least one effort to ameliorate California’s chronic shortage of housing – and sometimes sev...

To those on the left side of the political balance beam, no issue is more important – or more elusive – than having medical care provided di...

This is a week of waiting and watching for legislators, lobbyists, journalists, bureaucrats and other denizens in and around the state Capit...

Four-plus decades ago, a coterie of left-leaning political activists, led by antiwar iconoclast Tom Hayden, captured control of Santa Monica...

California’s water warriors have a new arena for their perpetual conflict over the allocation of the state’s ever-evolving supply – a nearly...

A reporter for West Virginia’s public broadcasting system was fired last month after exposing the state health agency’s abuse of disabled pe...

California’s famous – or infamous – Proposition 13, passed by voters 44 years ago, sought to impose limits on state and local taxes. Dan W...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is fond — perhaps overly so — of the phrase “meet the moment.” Dan Walters CalMatters Opinion It translates ...

  At its best, journalism sheds light on important issues in hopes that a more informed public will press officialdom to confront and r...