Author: John Wildermuth

Gov. Jerry Brown is back in California after a week-long business jaunt to China and found a couple of very nice welcome home presents waiting

For those Californians who remain convinced that term limits represent the solution to all the state’s problems, may I present state Treasurer Bill Lockyer. That

In newspapers, there’s an old saying: “Vote the story.” For reporters, that means when there’s a political choice between good government and good stories, well,

Some critics appear to think California needs a better class of voters and candidates if the state is ever going to run the way it

This just in: Californians like government projects and government services, but don’t want to pay for them. That’s the take from a look at the

What if you gave an election and no one showed up? I’m talking to you, Los Angeles. Last Tuesday, about 16 percent of the registered

In a world where terrible things happen every day, can we write a law to stop all of them? Should we even try. Take, for

Just because an idea comes from a San Francisco legislator doesn’t make it a bad one. Sure, the city has a well-deserved reputation as a

A new Field Poll shows that California voters are feeling good about Gov. Jerry Brown, with 61 percent saying that he “can be trusted to