Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary, Author at GV Wire

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Walters: Do ‘Red Flag’ Laws Actually Save Lives?

August 22, 2019

The UC Davis Medical School this week released a report on the state’s new “red flag” law aimed at seizing guns from dangerous persons, saying the data “suggest that this urgent, individualized intervention can...

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Walters: Deadly Force Law Finally and Rightfully Changed

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 21, 2019

The record of the 2019 legislative session – Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first – is still a work in progress, but his signature on Assembly Bill 392 this week makes it a success, no matter what else happens. ...

Walters: Is a Recession on Our Horizon?

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 18, 2019

We live in volatile economic times, with global markets reacting moment by moment to the latest bits of data and the utterances of central bankers and politicians — even the tweets from the White House. Cali...

Walters: 2020 Property Tax Measure Altered

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 15, 2019

Sponsors of a 2020 ballot measure to increase property taxes on factories, stores, warehouses, office buildings and other commercial real estate withdrew it this week and launched a revised version. ...

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Walters: Ethic Studies Time Bomb Explodes

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 13, 2019

State legislators and then-Gov. Jerry Brown should have known that they were lighting the fuse of a political time bomb three years ago when they ordered up a “model curriculum in ethnic studies” for high schoo...

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Walters: Achievement Gap Question Still Unanswered

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 10, 2019

As a species, politicians tend to like inputs more than outcomes. It’s more fun, in political terms, to appropriate money for a new program or cut the ribbon of a new public works project than it is to delve...

Walters: Is Reducing Trash a Wasted Effort?

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 8, 2019

California’s Department of Motor Vehicles has long been a poster child for managerial shortcomings among the state’s many agencies. It is, however, not the only example of how state programs fail to complete...

Walters: Housing Shortage Crisis Looms Large

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 7, 2019

When the state Legislature returns to Sacramento this month after its summer vacation recess, it will have just four weeks to do something meaningful about California’s single most important issue – a housing s...

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Walters: It’s Time to Derail the Bullet Train

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 5, 2019

A decade ago, shortly after California voters narrowly approved a $9.95 billion bond issue to finance a statewide high-speed rail train system, an official involved in early planning for the project confided a ...

Walters: California’s Two-Tier Society

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

August 4, 2019

Thirty-four years ago, two researchers delved into California’s rapidly changing demographic and economic trends and saw “an emerging two-tier economy with Asians and better-educated non-Hispanic whites and bla...

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At UC Merced, a Pipeline for More Diverse Faculty

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When Will Politicians Stop Repeating Myths About Mass Shootings?

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A Modest Proposal to Deregulate NCAA Sports

Brand’s Police Chief Choice Reflects His Integrity, Not a Charade

At UC Merced, a Pipeline for More Diverse Faculty

Walters: Do ‘Red Flag’ Laws Actually Save Lives?

NW Fresno Council Candidates Clash Over Police, Homeless

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District 2 Candidates Weigh in on Homeless, Police, Potholes

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Trump Ties US Success to 2nd term: ‘You Have to Vote for Me’

Colorado’s Hickenlooper Ending 2020 White House Bid

Walters: Do ‘Red Flag’ Laws Actually Save Lives?

Walters: Deadly Force Law Finally and Rightfully Changed

Walters: Is a Recession on Our Horizon?

Walters: 2020 Property Tax Measure Altered

Walters: Ethic Studies Time Bomb Explodes

Walters: Achievement Gap Question Still Unanswered

Walters: Is Reducing Trash a Wasted Effort?

Walters: Housing Shortage Crisis Looms Large

Walters: It’s Time to Derail the Bullet Train

Walters: California’s Two-Tier Society