Joe Mathews

Read This to Learn Why CA’s Public Schools Are Failing

August 24, 2018

Don’t squeeze your kids too hard as you send them off to another school year, because the state of California is already squeezing your kids hard enough to hurt their future. Call it The Great California School Squeeze. Opinion Joe Mathews ...

Welcome to the Bay Area, Fresno and Merced!

Joe Mathews

July 25, 2018

Welcome to the Bay Area, Merced! Welcome as well to Modesto, Sacramento, and Yuba City. Looking south, you’re invited, too, Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Salinas. And while you’re almost in another state, don’t ...

Go Back Home to Ohio, LeBron James

Joe Mathews

July 19, 2018

Sure, I’m happy to see the world’s greatest basketball player join my favorite team, the Los Angeles Lakers. But as a Californian, I fear LeBron is the last thing our state needs. His arrival is a high-profi...

Photo of a girl and a boy at a table in a preschool room

Parents & Kids Pay Big Price for Broken Preschool Promise

Joe Mathews

June 18, 2018

Since the 1990s, California’s leaders have promised to make preschool universal for every child. Maybe they’ll actually do it by the time I have grandchildren. Opinion Joe Mathews It’s already too late for my own kids. The youngest of m...

What California County Is Big & Beautiful Yet Small & Ugly?

Joe Mathews

April 5, 2018

Why does a place as big and beautiful as Orange County behave in ways so small and ugly? In recent weeks, county supervisors first voted to oppose state sanctuary laws, thus aligning themselves with Presiden...

Will L.A.’s Water Delusions Kill the Delta Tunnels?

Joe Mathews

April 2, 2018

This time, “Chinatown” is fooling itself. Los Angeles has a long history of water deceptions, a point made famously by Roman Polanski’s 1974 film classic. But the self-sabotage of the city’s latest scheme is...

Grownups Have Messed Up School Budgets. Turn It Over to the Kids.

Joe Mathews

March 22, 2018

California education finances are an unholy mess — with incomprehensible budget formulas, equity funding that doesn’t produce equity, and cuts to schools even during the current economic expansion. And our state’s so-called education leaders refuse to fix the ...

Who Do You Love to Hate More, LA or SF? Resentments May Decide Governor’s Race.

Joe Mathews

March 1, 2018

Which city — San Francisco or Los Angeles — do you love to hate more? This is shaping up to be California’s question for 2018. Each of the top contenders for governor is a former mayor of one of those cities...

High-Speed Rail Deniers Have It All Wrong

Joe Mathews

February 22, 2018

If California’s train deniers are right—that no one ever rides trains here, that Californians prefer to drive or fly, and that high-speed rail is a boondoggle that won’t attract riders — then how do you explain...

Will Madera County’s Bold Dreams Make Greater Fresno Blossom?

Joe Mathews

February 15, 2018

Could the San Joaquin River, long a dividing line in the heart of California, unite the state in pursuit a more metropolitan future for the Central Valley? Whether that happens will be determined in Madera County, on the north side of the river from Fresno....

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Read This to Learn Why CA’s Public Schools Are Failing

Welcome to the Bay Area, Fresno and Merced!

Go Back Home to Ohio, LeBron James

Parents & Kids Pay Big Price for Broken Preschool Promise

What California County Is Big & Beautiful Yet Small & Ugly?

Will L.A.’s Water Delusions Kill the Delta Tunnels?

Grownups Have Messed Up School Budgets. Turn It Over to the Kids.

Who Do You Love to Hate More, LA or SF? Resentments May Decide Governor’s Race.

High-Speed Rail Deniers Have It All Wrong

Will Madera County’s Bold Dreams Make Greater Fresno Blossom?