In his Feb. 1 column, CALmatters columnist Dan Walters points out that the audit of California's over-budget, behind-schedule high-speed rail project commissioned by state lawmakers this week is limited in its scope. Walters opines that a top-to-bottom examination by state Auditor Elaine Howle of the estimated $70 billion project would...
LA & San Francisco Embroiled in Political Turmoil: Walters
Los Angeles Unified epitomizes the difficulties that large urban school districts face in selecting a superintendent to guide them through troubled waters. Superintendent Michelle King resigned earlier this month and, notes CALmatters columnist Dan Walters in his Jan. 31 column, she was the district's ninth superintendent in the past 20 years....
LA & San Francisco Embroiled in Political Turmoil: Walters
Los Angeles Unified epitomizes the difficulties that large urban school districts face in selecting a superintendent to guide them through troubled waters. Superintendent Michelle King resigned earlier this month and, notes CALmatters columnist Dan Walters in his Jan. 31 column, she was the district's ninth superintendent in the past 20 years....
Brown's Delta Tunnels & Bullet Train Are in Deep Trouble: Walters
In his Jan. 29 CALmatters column, Dan Walters describes the challenges facing Gov. Jerry Brown's $70 billion High-Speed Rail Project and his Delta tunnels effort. Walters notes that "During his second governorship, Jerry Brown has frequently touted big public-works projects as the mark of a great society — a marked...
Brown's Delta Tunnels & Bullet Train Are in Deep Trouble: Walters
In his Jan. 29 CALmatters column, Dan Walters describes the challenges facing Gov. Jerry Brown's $70 billion High-Speed Rail Project and his Delta tunnels effort. Walters notes that "During his second governorship, Jerry Brown has frequently touted big public-works projects as the mark of a great society — a marked...
Is Sen. Dianne Feinstein Anti-Immigrant at Heart?
CALmatters columnist Dan Walters examines U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's hopscotch positions on immigration in his Jan. 25 column and places them in the context of her run for reelection against Kevin de León, the president pro tem of the state Senate. Walters writes that to end the government shutdown "most Democrats...
Is Sen. Dianne Feinstein Anti-Immigrant at Heart?
CALmatters columnist Dan Walters examines U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's hopscotch positions on immigration in his Jan. 25 column and places them in the context of her run for reelection against Kevin de León, the president pro tem of the state Senate. Walters writes that to end the government shutdown "most Democrats...
Walters: Legislature's Employees Should Be Allowed to Unionize
In his Jan. 22 CALmatters column, Dan Walters points out that it was the young Gov. Jerry Brown who more than four decades ago "decreed that public employees had the right to join unions and bargain for salaries and other working conditions." Brown's logic, Walters writes, "for extending collective bargaining...
Walters: Legislature's Employees Should Be Allowed to Unionize
In his Jan. 22 CALmatters column, Dan Walters points out that it was the young Gov. Jerry Brown who more than four decades ago "decreed that public employees had the right to join unions and bargain for salaries and other working conditions." Brown's logic, Walters writes, "for extending collective bargaining...
Walters Cites California Examples of Absolute Power Corrupting
In his Jan. 15 column for CALmatters, Dan Walters tells the tale of two powerful California politicians from the past: the late John Vasconcellos and Lou Papan. Vasconcellos, you might recall, was chairman of the Assembly’s budget committee and a big booster of the self-esteem movement. Papan was chairman of...