Dan Walters

Walters: Another Dicey Utility Overhaul

July 11, 2019

Californians should always be skeptical when their politicians overhaul the state’s electrical utility system while promising more efficient, less polluting, and reasonably priced service. Dan Walters CALmatters Californians get their juice ...

Walters: Conflict Over Votes for Local Taxes Heats Up

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

July 10, 2019

For decades, it’s been an article of political faith – as well as law – that local government taxes designated for particular purposes require two-thirds approval by voters. Dan Walters CALmatters ...

Walters: Is California a Shining Example or Third-World State?

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

July 7, 2019

Recent weeks have seen a debate of sorts about the image and reality of contemporary California. Is it, as Gov. Gavin Newsom contends, a nation-state proving that economic prosperity, multiculturism, and soc...

Walters: New State Budget a Windfall for Unions

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

July 4, 2019

The state budget package Democratic legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom just enacted is sprinkled with billions of dollars in extra goodies for their most important political constituency, labor unions. Dan Walters CALmatters Take, for example...

Walters: Newsom’s Housing Deal Just a Baby Step

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

July 3, 2019

Every Californian should be aware by now that the state’s housing shortage not only causes personal angst for millions of the state’s residents, but is a key factor in its economic future. Dan Walter...

Walters: Can Newsom Break String of Tech Failures?

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

July 1, 2019

For years – many years – journalists and government watchdogs have cataloged an almost unbroken, extremely expensive string of failed attempts to bring information technology into state government operations. ...

Walters: New Bill Reignites California’s ‘Reading Wars’

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

June 30, 2019

For decades – close to a century, in fact – America’s educators and politicians have argued furiously over how best to teach children to read, pitting advocates of “phonics” against those of “whole language,” a conflict dubbed "reading wars." Dan Wa...

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Walters: A Cross-Continental Game of Political Chicken

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

June 27, 2019

There are dozens of cross-continental disputes between the Trump administration in Washington and California’s Democrat-dominated state government, most manifesting themselves in lawsuits. Dan Walter...

Walters: ‘Big, Hairy’ Goal Could Be Newsom’s First Defining Moment

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

June 26, 2019

The careers of political executives – presidents, governors and big city mayors – are often, fairly or not, defined by how they deal with the crises they encounter. Dan Walters CALmatters Fra...

Federal tax reform will help many Californians, but it will dig deep into the pockets of the state's wealthy residents

Walters: Arbitrary Tax Policy Spawns an Offspring

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

June 24, 2019

History has proven that no political decrees are more arbitrary than those about taxation. Dan Walters CALmatters We hear a lot about “tax fairness,” but what is taxed and the level of that taxation follow no logical or moral course. Rather,...

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Walters: Another Dicey Utility Overhaul

Walters: Conflict Over Votes for Local Taxes Heats Up

Walters: Is California a Shining Example or Third-World State?

Walters: New State Budget a Windfall for Unions

Walters: Newsom’s Housing Deal Just a Baby Step

Walters: Can Newsom Break String of Tech Failures?

Walters: New Bill Reignites California’s ‘Reading Wars’

Walters: A Cross-Continental Game of Political Chicken

Walters: ‘Big, Hairy’ Goal Could Be Newsom’s First Defining Moment

Walters: Arbitrary Tax Policy Spawns an Offspring