Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary, Author at GV Wire

Walters: The SF-LA Economic Gap Is Growing Wider

May 27, 2020

Even before COVID-19 rocked California, there were stark economic differences between the state’s two major metropolitan regions — the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County-centered Southern California ...

Walters: How Long Will Newsom’s One-Man Rule Last?

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

May 24, 2020

For the past decade, California has been a case study in one-party rule. Democrats hold every statewide office and enjoy overwhelming majorities in the congressional delegation and both legislative houses. R...

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Walters: California Population May Be Peaking

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

May 21, 2020

When California, with 17 million residents, surpassed New York to become the nation’s most populous state in 1962, it was a cause for celebration. The state had boomed during World War II and the postwar era...

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Walters: A Not-So-Special Election

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

May 20, 2020

Clem Miller, a congressman from California’s North Coast known as Spendin’ Clem for his ability to bring home pork-barrel funding, was a shoo-in for re-election to a third term in 1962. However, a month befo...

Walters: Business Targets COVID-19 Bills as ‘Job Killers’

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

May 18, 2020

A quarter-century ago — rather suddenly — California began shifting rapidly from a two-party state into what became utter dominance by one party, the Democrats. The reasons for that transformation are still ...

Walters: State Has a Budget Problem — but How Big?

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

May 17, 2020

The first step to effectively deal with any problem is defining it accurately — and the recession-battered state budget is a case in point. There’s no doubt that the pandemic-induced recession is one of the ...

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Walters: A New Skirmish in ‘Tort Wars’

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

May 14, 2020

No session of the California Legislature would be complete without at least one skirmish in the decades-long conflict known to Capitol insiders as “tort wars” — and this year is no different even though the COV...

Walters: Could California Really Go It Alone?

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

May 10, 2020

Gavin Newsom isn’t the first governor to describe California as a nation-state but he has been the term’s most vociferous gubernatorial exponent. What does it mean? Dan Walters Opinion Newso...

Walters: High Court Weighs Timely Pension Case

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

May 7, 2020

It was purely coincidental that state Supreme Court justices heard arguments this week in a landmark case involving public employee pensions as state and local officials were beginning to wrest with the severe ...

Walters: GOP Lawmaker Fights for Accountability

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

May 6, 2020

About three-fourths of the Legislature’s 120 seats are occupied by Democrats, which renders the Capitol’s relatively tiny band of Republicans pretty much irrelevant. However, one Republican, Jay Obernolte of...

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Walters: The SF-LA Economic Gap Is Growing Wider

Walters: How Long Will Newsom’s One-Man Rule Last?

Walters: California Population May Be Peaking

Walters: A Not-So-Special Election

Walters: Business Targets COVID-19 Bills as ‘Job Killers’

Walters: State Has a Budget Problem — but How Big?

Walters: A New Skirmish in ‘Tort Wars’

Walters: Could California Really Go It Alone?

Walters: High Court Weighs Timely Pension Case

Walters: GOP Lawmaker Fights for Accountability