During a crisis, the news media and voting public will judge the actions of those who hold or aspire to office.

State efforts to expand use of electric vehicles and renewable energy are getting pushback from affected communities.

Six in 10 Californians wouldn't mind if the state peacefully seceded from the United States, a poll by Independent California ...

As Donald Trump this week assumed the presidency for the second time, he rekindled his personal and political feud with ...

California’s state budget is inordinately dependent on taxing the incomes of wealthy residents. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed 2025-26 budget assumes that the state will receive $133.7 billion ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom is tapping Magic Johnson, Dodgers Chairman Mark Walter and 2028 Olympics organizer Casey Wasserman to lead ...

However, other political figures are not wasting the opportunities that California’s twin crises ... a possible 2026 candidate for governor. Dan Walters has been a journalist for over half ...

By happenstance, just as the new budget and the wildfires become prominent items on the Capitol’s political agenda, something else is happening in Washington that could affect California’s ...

“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” Stanford economist Paul Romer said at a venture capital seminar 21 years ago, referring to the increasing levels of education in other countries that ...

The political figure most obviously affected by the twin crises is Gov. Gavin Newsom, who simultaneously beseeches Trump to send California many billions of dollars, and positions himself as a ...

CALmatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's state Capitol works and why it matters. Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 60 years ...

The political figure most obviously affected by the twin crises is Gov. Gavin Newsom, who simultaneously beseeches Trump to send California many billions of dollars, and positions himself as a leader ...