Jerry Brown is a hard act to follow but his successor as governor, Gavin Newsom, acquitted himself well – if very lengthily – in presenting his...
One of the great mysteries of California politics is why, in a state that boasts of its digital innovation, its government has such a miserable record...
Gov. Gavin Newsom punctuated his inaugural address this week with several jabs at President Donald Trump, referring at one point to “the corruption and incompetence in...
Although state law specifically prohibits public officials from using taxpayers’ money for political campaigning, they have been doing exactly that throughout California. Local governments hire “consultants”...
While 2018 has been a pivotal year in California’s political history – particularly the Republican Party’s losing half of its congressional seats – 2019 may be...
Outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown offered a pithy observation about the nature of politics during a wide-ranging interview before the Sacramento Press Club this month, to wit:...
Jerry Brown closed a cosmic circle this month when he inducted actor Robert Redford into the California Hall of Fame. Forty-six years earlier, Redford had played...
During his half-century-long career in California politics, Jerry Brown has had a complex relationship with journalists, particularly those who covered him on a day-to-day basis. He...
Does California have too many lawyers, or too few? That’s the unspoken question underlying a complicated debate within California’s legal community over whether the examination that...
California’s public employee unions suffered a potentially heavy blow this year when the U.S. Supreme Court declared that they could not charge “fair share fees” to...
