Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary, Author at GV Wire

Walters: State Budget Depends on the Rich

January 22, 2020

The final pages of the 2020-21 budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed this month contain arguably its most important factor — an utter dependence on taxing a relative handful of high-income Californians. Per...

Walters: The Man Who Changed the Capitol

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 20, 2020

As strange as it may seem now, California’s state Senate was once a bastion of bipartisan — almost nonpartisan — comity. Although Democrats were in the majority, they willingly shared power with Republicans....

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Walters: An Uber-Complex Presidential Primary

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 19, 2020

A new poll of California voters finds a virtual tie among Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden just a couple of weeks before mail voting begins for the March 3 Democrati...

Walters: More Entitlements as Economy Slows?

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 13, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom is tiptoeing into a political region that predecessor Jerry Brown purposely skirted — expanding expensive services and benefits that are difficult, and perhaps impossible, to shrink if Califor...

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Walters: The Politics of Slow Population Growth

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 12, 2020

During the first decade of the 21st century, demographers in California’s Department of Finance and those in the U.S. Census Bureau found themselves in a genteel conflict. Years by year, the two agencies’ es...

Walters: Winnowing Legislative Grain From Chaff

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 9, 2020

During the pre-industrial era, crops of wheat were planted, cultivated, harvested and processed by hand. The latter included “winnowing,” typically by using a shallow basket to toss the crushed kernels of wh...

Walters: Where Political Action Is — and Isn’t — in 2020

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 8, 2020

It’s a presidential election year, so what can California voters anticipate between now and Nov. 3? For one thing, not much presidential politicking, even though we’ve advanced our presidential primary from ...

Walters: Promises Made, but Not Kept

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 5, 2020

Last month, McClatchy Newspapers and the ProPublica news organization published an investigative article delving into how billions of dollars meant to reduce repeat criminal activity by improving local jails an...

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Walters: State Supreme Court Helps Insider Dealing

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 2, 2020

One should expect the California Supreme Court to protect the integrity of governmental actions. However, on the day after Christmas, the court, by a 6-1 margin, gave government officials a gift. It decreed ...

Walters: New Year, Old Confounding Issues for California

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 1, 2020

California has always been a basket of contradictions, and as we begin a new year and a new decade, they seem destined to become even more confounding. As 2019 closed, we learned from the state Department of...

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Walters: Bullet Train Follies

Walters: State Budget Depends on the Rich

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Walters: The Man Who Changed the Capitol

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Walters: State Budget Depends on the Rich

Walters: The Man Who Changed the Capitol

Walters: An Uber-Complex Presidential Primary

Walters: More Entitlements as Economy Slows?

Walters: The Politics of Slow Population Growth

Walters: Winnowing Legislative Grain From Chaff

Walters: Where Political Action Is — and Isn’t — in 2020

Walters: Promises Made, but Not Kept

Walters: State Supreme Court Helps Insider Dealing

Walters: New Year, Old Confounding Issues for California