Dan Walters might be the most high-profile media advocate for community colleges in California. For example, he long has championed allowing community colleges to grant baccalaureate degrees...
By most metrics, California has a poverty problem. One out of every five Golden Staters lives below the “line,” which recently has been recalibrated and no...
Dianne Feinstein has been a stalwart of Democratic politics in California ever since her election to San Francisco city government in the 1970s. Her party credentials...
California has a lot on the line with the 2020 census count. For example, even though the current population trends point to the Golden State retaining...
The good news is, California is designating funding to close the educational achievement gap. The bad news is, the state resists measures to track whether that spending...
Money can’t buy you happiness. And, apparently, it can’t buy you elections. CALmatters columnist Dan Walters notes how one of the richest men in the world...
CALmatters’ Dan Walters is sounding the siren that history is repeating itself when it comes to energy deregulation. In his latest piece, Walters recalls the history...
Californians like transparency when its comes to their elected leaders. Voters demanded that legislation be printed three days in advance when Proposition 54 passed in 2016. ‘Mushroom...
Party leaders hate it. East Coast journalists think its wacky. But, in the end, California’s top-two primary voting system is good for voters. That is the...
It’s doubtful that President Donald Trump and California lieutenant governor and top gubernatorial vote-getter Gavin Newsom agree on anything. But as CALmatter’s Dan Walters writes in his...
