Author: John Wildermuth

The very public brawl over potential changes to the state’s Public Records Act has been billed as a battle over principles. It’s not. It’s all

You won’t see Gov. Jerry Brown pumping his fist and slapping high-fives with his staff today if the Legislature, as expected, approves his $96.3 billion

In politics, it’s generally better to be lucky then good. Especially since if you’re lucky enough, you’ll always look good. And when things are going

Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan for a massive, $24 billion water project rests on the innocuously named Bay Delta Conservation Plan, which weighs in at a

Here’s the question that haunts everyone putting together a budget: What’s the difference between an estimate and a guess? The answer, all too often, is

If the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results,” Democratic legislators upset with Gov. Jerry Brown’s

“Stop me before I cave again.” That seems to be the rationale of California legislators who have no intention of ending the sneaky, sordid practice

There’s a reason California has a governor and state Senate Democrats are getting ready to show just what that reason is. When state Senate leaders