Author: Joe Mathews

What explains the success of California? Fear of the apocalypse. Fear of a publishing apocalypse, to be precise. Most of us never would have heard

It’s not clear if Governor Jerry Brown and his challenger Neel Kashkari will debate each other this fall. But if they do, there should be

Dear Dan, I am starting to worry about you. I had hoped that your race for Secretary of State would have gotten the whole non-partisan

A few days ago, Fox & Hounds Daily published my piece on the underwhelming SB 1253, a bill that offers small changes to the initiative

If you venture out to Fourth of July weekend events around California, you’ll probably hear high talk about how Independence Day is a celebration of

State controller – like most of the down-ticket executive offices in California – should be an appointed position, not an elected position. But that doesn’t

I was trying to be positive about SB 1253 when I wrote in this space that its provisions represented some very small, but noteworthy progress,

I have learned the hard way, as father to three small boys, that sharing causes conflict. Ask humans to play with the same toy at

This post was going to be about making fun of the over-the-top triumphalism among conservatives and education “reformers” about the Vergara decision on teacher tenure