California’s two major electric power utilities are on the hot seat as Capitol politicians ponder whether they should be protected...
Water supply is clearly the most important long-term issue affecting California’s future. It’s also the most politically complicated. Incremental changes...
The Legislature reconvened this week with Democrats celebrating sweeping election wins that give them immense majorities in both sides of...
California Democrats’ massive victory in last month’s election made their party even more dominant at all levels of government and...
Equity and logic would seem to dictate that state legislators should live in the districts they represent and thereby share...
Donald Trump and his Republican Party were obviously big losers in this month’s California election. But so was a loose...
Mac Taylor, the Legislature’s soon-to-retire budget analyst, generally takes a very conservative, glass-half-empty approach to the state’s finances. However, the...
As the Civil War raged, William Brewer, a young botanist from upstate New York, spent five years cataloging California’s natural...
Californians – most of us, anyway – loath President Donald Trump and the state’s voters punished him this month by...
When California became the 31st state in 1850, the Legislature quickly created 27 counties to provide basic local services, such...
