Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary, Author at GV Wire

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Walters: School Spending Popular, Taxes Not so Much

April 25, 2019

For years, even decades, polling has consistently found that Californians’ highest political priority is public education. Opinion Dan Walters CALmatters Commentary PPIC found that three-q...

Walters: Can We Protect Kids From Becoming Zombies?

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

April 24, 2019

We’ve all seen children, often very young children, hunched over from heavy book backpacks, shuffling along sidewalks just an hour or two after sunrise on their way to school. Opinion Dan Walters ...

Walters: Can Newsom Finally Fix State’s Tech Woes?

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

April 23, 2019

California is the global capital of technological innovation, but state officials are much more adept at devising catchy names for their big “information technology” projects than actually implementing them. ...

Walters: Why Is Our ‘Achievement Gap’ so Stubborn?

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

April 21, 2019

California has poured tens of billions of additional dollars into its public schools this decade on the assumption – or hope – that they would close the state’s stubborn academic “achievement gap.” O...

Federal tax reform will help many Californians, but it will dig deep into the pockets of the state's wealthy residents

Walters: Battles Over Local Tax Measures Heat up

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

April 18, 2019

A change in the governor’s office and expanded Democratic supermajorities in the Legislature have emboldened long-frustrated advocates of increasing taxes to expand health, welfare and education services. ...

Walters: How Budget ‘Trailer Bills’ Are Misused

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

April 17, 2019

In the jargon of the Capitol, “trailer bills” are measures that accompany the annual state budget – in theory making the changes of law necessary to implement the budget’s fiscal policies. Opinion ...

Walters: DMV Crisis Could Make or Break Newsom

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

April 15, 2019

Ambitious politicians like to dazzle us with what Hollywood screenwriters call “high concept” pitches that reduce complex ideas to a few succinct words. Opinion Dan Walters CALmatters Commentary ...

Walters: Bond Issue Transparency Still Under Assault

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

April 14, 2019

Two years ago, in a rare display of support for transparency in government finance, the Legislature and then-Gov. Jerry Brown required local governments and school districts to tell voters how proposed bond iss...

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Walters: Community Colleges Wracked by Data Dispute

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

April 12, 2019

Two years ago, the state board that oversees California’s 114 community colleges and its new chancellor, Eloy Ortiz Oakley, launched an ambitious effort to improve student outcomes, especially by increasing the...

Walters: ‘Job Killer’ Bills May Be More Difficult to Kill

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

April 10, 2019

For two decades, the California Chamber of Commerce’s annual descriptions of certain legislative bills as “job killers” have framed the Capitol’s sharpest economic conflicts. Opinion Dan Walters ...

Amid Clouds of Dust, Border Wall Prototypes Are Demolished

Judge Charged with Helping Man Evade Immigration Agent

Live Online TV, Once a Bargain, Is Getting More Expensive

Inspectors Pan California Prison Built to Boost Inmate Care

Impoverished Students at This School Chalk Up Big Successes

California’s War on Plastic Pollution Targets Tiny Hotel Toiletries

Calif. Cities Devastated by Wildfires Face New Challenge: Benzene in Water

Mapping US Counties Where Traffic Air Pollution Hurts Kids the Most

Prince Memoir 'The Beautiful Ones' Coming out in the Fall

Attorneys for Patriots Owner Set to Challenge Sex Video

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Poised to Topple Box-Office Records

San Jose Scores 4 Goals in 4 Minutes, Then Wins Game 7 in OT

3 Reasons Why People Fall for Politicians' Lies About Statistics

An Assembly Seat Isn’t Worth What’s Ahead for the Arambulas

Opinion: Date Rape Isn’t a Violent Crime in California. Seriously

Walters: School Spending Popular, Taxes Not so Much

California’s Worsening Wildfires, Explained

Brand to Human Traffickers: All of Fresno Is Coming After You!

A Brief History of Fresno’s Spiral Garage

Notes on Spiral Garage Appraisal

Walters: School Spending Popular, Taxes Not so Much

Walters: Can We Protect Kids From Becoming Zombies?

Walters: Can Newsom Finally Fix State’s Tech Woes?

Walters: Why Is Our ‘Achievement Gap’ so Stubborn?

Walters: Battles Over Local Tax Measures Heat up

Walters: How Budget ‘Trailer Bills’ Are Misused

Walters: DMV Crisis Could Make or Break Newsom

Walters: Bond Issue Transparency Still Under Assault

Walters: Community Colleges Wracked by Data Dispute

Walters: ‘Job Killer’ Bills May Be More Difficult to Kill