Author: Dan Walters

Reality may finally be catching up with the vision – or pipedream – of a 200-mile-per-hour train connecting California’s northern and southern regions. A few

The first thing to remember about precipitation in California is that it’s unpredictable, as the past several winters have once again shown us. Several years

As the capital of the nation’s most complex and populous state, Sacramento is no stranger to protest marches and other forms of political expression. However,

It would be fair to assume that relatively few of the California voters who passed Proposition 13 overwhelmingly 40 years ago will still be voting

Over the past few years, voters in hundreds of California cities and other local governments were asked to pass tax increases, and indications are that

When Santa Cruz, a picturesque and funky coastal city, first started to feel the pinch of rising retirement costs for city workers, it took several

That was quite a show that politicians staged in Sacramento last Wednesday. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions swooped into town to tell an audience of

The essence of California’s pension crisis was on display last week when the California Public Employees Retirement System made a relatively small change in its amortization policy.

California’s political leaders don’t have to look very far to find a stark example of the pension cost crisis facing the state’s 482 cities. Three blocks from