Author: Joe Mathews

I cry tsunamis for you. Please accept my thoughts and prayers. Depending on which media you read, you are now in collapse, having become either

Here are five steps to take if you don’t want to  pass an initiative to split the tax rolls in service of devoting more money

Do you want do the most political job in California? You can apply—as long as you know almost nothing about politics. California’s Redistricting Commission has

This may be the last version of the California redistricting commission. That may sound like a surprising prediction. After all, many commentators, including Joel Fox

No Californian in their right mind should vote for Donald Trump. But plenty of Californians aren’t in their right minds, and these sad souls have

Who says California opposes everything the Trump administration does? Our state’s leaders are embracing at least one lousy presidential idea: opportunity zones.  “Opportunity zones” is

Beware of self-styled taxpayer advocates who exploit anti-immigrant animus instead of protecting  taxpayers. That’s what many on the anti-tax right in California recently did on