Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary, Author at GV Wire

Walters : California’s ‘Tort Wars’ Flaring Up Again

April 21, 2021

To Capitol insiders, the term “tort wars” is shorthand for decades of political wrangling over the rules governing lawsuits for personal injuries — who can sue and collect damages for which actions. The rule...

Walters : Newsom Puts Rosy Spin on Job Report

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

April 20, 2021

California, which has been mired in a pandemic recession for the last year, enjoyed some modest economic gains in March as the state’s unemployment rate dropped to 8.3%. Gov. Gavin Newsom, not surprisingly, ...

Walters : California Reverses, Now Shutting Prisons

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

April 19, 2021

It was 1981 and then-Gov. Jerry Brown had a problem. California’s 12 prisons were bulging at the seams with more than 28,000 inmates, thanks largely to tougher sentencing laws he signed, and he was told to expe...

Walters : A Reminder About Supplies and Demands

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

April 18, 2021

We Americans are blessed with abundant —even overabundant —consumer goods and services and often take that fact for granted. We assume that when we pull into a service station its pumps will dispense fuel, t...

Walters : Bills Would Hamstring Future California Recalls

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

April 14, 2021

As signatures on petitions to force Gov. Gavin Newsom into a recall election are being tallied, the Legislature is considering bills that would, if enacted, make future recalls of California’s elected officials...

Walters : Drought Hits California — and Newsom

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

April 13, 2021

By any standard, California is experiencing one of its periodic droughts after two successive years of below-normal precipitation. “We are now facing the reality that it will be a second dry year for Califor...

Walters : California ‘Job Killer’ List Reignites Old Conflict

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

April 12, 2021

Annually, the California Chamber of Commerce chooses a relative handful of the hundreds of bills pending in the Legislature and labels them “job killers” that would impose new regulatory or taxation burdens. ...

Walters : Pandemic has Damaged California’s School Children

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

April 11, 2021

A comprehensive history of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on California would surely conclude that the state’s school children have been treated shamefully. The incessant political squabbling over closing an...

Walters : Would Fed Change Make Higher State Taxes More Likely?

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

April 7, 2021

California has long held the dubious honor of having the nation’s highest income tax rates — 13.3% for those at the very top of the income ladder. However, New York is coming closer to California. Its govern...

Walters : James Mills Personified a Long-Past Era

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

April 6, 2021

In this era of ideological polarization and perpetual partisan warfare, it’s difficult to grasp the collegial, bipartisan ambience that once prevailed in California’s Senate. Democrats usually occupied most ...

Are COVID Variants Stalling Fresno County's Reopening? Here's What Top Doc Says.

Only 25 of 600 Available COVID Jabs Given at County Sites. Now One is Shut Down.

California Senate OKs Supervised Sites for Drug Users

Fresno Area Schools Hold Steady Amid California’s ‘Sharp Decline’ in Enrollment

Fresno PD Seeks Person of Interest on Video in Death of Man Found In Apartment

Fresno Gets ‘F’ Grades in Air Quality Again, but Is Any Progress Being Made?

Paycheck Protection Loans: California Received Less Per Capita Than States Like North Dakota

Resnicks Give $250K To Help Newsom, but Pro-Recall Farmers ‘Afraid’ to Donate

How MrBeast Burgers Came to Fresno and Who Makes Them

Ted Nugent, Who Once Dismissed COVID-19, Sickened by Virus

Redemption Is Here for Autry’s Film ‘Victory By Submission’

Saddle Up and Get Vaccinated for Return of the Clovis Rodeo

Walters : California’s ‘Tort Wars’ Flaring Up Again

Will Amtrak Joe Save California’s Troubled High-Speed Rail Project?

Nursing Scholarship Donation Is an Investment and a Thank-you

Walters : Newsom Puts Rosy Spin on Job Report

GV Wire Unfiltered – January 12, 2021

Eid al-Fitr Marks End of Ramadan, but COVID-19 Curtails Big Events

LIVE: Daily Briefing from Gov. Gavin Newsom

After Taking on Costa and AOC, Elizabeth Heng Sets Sights on U.S. Senate

Planning Commission Delays Decision on Southwest Industrial Question

Clovis City Council Candidates Spar During Candidate Forum

Valley GOP Lawmaker Valadao Votes To Impeach Trump

Walters : California’s ‘Tort Wars’ Flaring Up Again

Walters : Newsom Puts Rosy Spin on Job Report

Walters : California Reverses, Now Shutting Prisons

Walters : A Reminder About Supplies and Demands

Walters : Bills Would Hamstring Future California Recalls

Walters : Drought Hits California — and Newsom

Walters : California ‘Job Killer’ List Reignites Old Conflict

Walters : Pandemic has Damaged California’s School Children

Walters : Would Fed Change Make Higher State Taxes More Likely?

Walters : James Mills Personified a Long-Past Era