Author: Joe Mathews

Tom Steyer is supposedly a candidate for president. But he is spending much of his time at home in California.  Yes, he’s made trips to

The ballot initiatives to split the roll—to treat commercial property tax assessments differently than residential property assessments—have been developed in the context of sky-high real

Lyft and Uber are rich and powerful companies, but they don’t understand California or its direct democracy. Witness their collective threat (along with DoorDash) to

How do you know when a politician is having a bad stretch? When he’s coming down in favor of measles outbreaks and utility bailouts, and

The Center of the World is in California. But California isn’t the center of the world. This paradox explains how California became so central to

In all the joking and hijinks and madness inspired by President Trump’s desire to buy Greenland, there is a serious lesson for California. And it’s

The newly filed split roll initiative is even worse than the last. To be more precise, it’s even more complicated. Rather than splitting the property

School has begun for the 40,000-plus students of Sweetwater Union High School District. But the district’s crisis never ends.  Sweetwater rarely makes the statewide news,