During his half-century-long career in California politics, Jerry Brown has had a complex relationship with journalists, particularly those who covered him on a day-to-day basis. He...
Does California have too many lawyers, or too few? That’s the unspoken question underlying a complicated debate within California’s legal community over whether the examination that...
California’s public employee unions suffered a potentially heavy blow this year when the U.S. Supreme Court declared that they could not charge “fair share fees” to...
Former policeman Larry Wallace hitched his wagon to a politician on the fast track when he went to work for Kamala Harris. She was San Francisco’s...
California’s two major electric power utilities are on the hot seat as Capitol politicians ponder whether they should be protected from the financial consequences of last...
Water supply is clearly the most important long-term issue affecting California’s future. It’s also the most politically complicated. Incremental changes in California water policy typically take...
The Legislature reconvened this week with Democrats celebrating sweeping election wins that give them immense majorities in both sides of the Capitol and they are intending...
California Democrats’ massive victory in last month’s election made their party even more dominant at all levels of government and in doing so, confined Republicans to...
Equity and logic would seem to dictate that state legislators should live in the districts they represent and thereby share their constituents’ daily experiences. State law...
Donald Trump and his Republican Party were obviously big losers in this month’s California election. But so was a loose confederation of civil rights, public school...
