Opinion

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You’ve Been Named California’s Homelessness Czar. What’s Your First Move?

January 27, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken grief for failing to fulfill what seems like a pretty achievable campaign promise: appointing a homelessness “czar” to help the 150,000 Californians living in shelters and on the streets. Newsom’s quest, which at various points h...

Walters: The Pardon Power, for Good or Ill

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 27, 2020

The power of presidents and governors to overrule judges and juries by pardoning convicted felons or commuting their sentences is a vestige of ancient monarchial authority. As one history of the pardon power...

Walters: California’s Big Educational Dilemma

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 26, 2020

California’s largest, most important — and perhaps most troubled — governmental program is the education of nearly 6 million elementary, middle and high school students. Federal, state and local taxpayers ar...

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Latino Wave Is Changing Fresno’s Small-Town Political Culture

Joe Mathews

January 24, 2020

Looking for California’s biggest wave? Try Fresno. As Fresno emerges as the Golden State’s next great city, it’s also experiencing an opening up of its small-town political culture. At this transformation’s heart is the so-called “Brown Wave” — the emergenc...

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Opinion: California Must End the Plague of Human Trafficking. This Proposal Can Help.

CalMatters

January 23, 2020

Ending the plague of human trafficking is one of my top legislative priorities. Sadly, California is prime hunting ground for pimps and gangs to exploit human trafficking. There are a number of reasons f...

Walters: Voters Face Hundreds of Local Tax Measures

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 23, 2020

California voters have seen a deluge of local government tax and bond measures in recent elections and will face even more this year. The California Taxpayers Association has counted 231 local sales and parc...

Gap Returns a Favor With $1 Deal for New Fresno Animal Shelter

Bill McEwen

January 22, 2020

Three cheers for The Gap, which is returning a favor to Fresno and supporting local pets. Multiple sources at City Hall confirm that the San Francisco-based clothing retailer has agreed to sell 4.77 acres of land to the city for $1. Listen to this ar...

Decoding the Mysteries of Roddy Piper’s ‘Rowdy’ Night in Fresno

David Taub

January 22, 2020

Next week marks Roddy Piper's return to Fresno 30 years ago — four years after living up to his "Rowdy" nickname. The WWE Hall of Famer had a wild night after the matches in 1986 — a melee with a bar patron,...

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Voters Beware of Our Populist Threat From Right and Left

CalMatters

January 22, 2020

We stand at the precipice of a significant tectonic shift in our political system. Similar to the profound disruptions the newspaper, music and transportation industries underwent some years ago, our democra...

Walters: State Budget Depends on the Rich

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

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. Personal income taxes, the budget projects, will gene...

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You’ve Been Named California’s Homelessness Czar. What’s Your First Move?

Walters: The Pardon Power, for Good or Ill

Walters: California’s Big Educational Dilemma

Latino Wave Is Changing Fresno’s Small-Town Political Culture

Opinion: California Must End the Plague of Human Trafficking. This Proposal Can Help.

Walters: Voters Face Hundreds of Local Tax Measures

Gap Returns a Favor With $1 Deal for New Fresno Animal Shelter

Decoding the Mysteries of Roddy Piper’s ‘Rowdy’ Night in Fresno

Voters Beware of Our Populist Threat From Right and Left

Walters: State Budget Depends on the Rich