Steven Greenhut
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It was only a month ago that California Gov. Gavin Newsom concluded an emergency session of the state Legislature by signing that special session’s crowning achievement: Legislation that requires the state’s dwindling number of oil refiners to maintain larger inventories…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Here are two of the more surprising granular results from Tuesday’s statewide elections in California. Even though San Francisco’s voter registrations are 63 percent Democratic and only 7 percent Republican, voters there opposed a far-reaching rent-control measure…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s presidential electors are a foregone conclusion. Likewise, the state’s decision on a U.S. Senate race is not even worth pondering. On statewide races, Californians tend to vote around 60 percent to 40 percent for the Democratic candidate….
California doesn’t have “show trials” (at least not yet), but it does have its share of show hearings — emergency legislative sessions that aren’t designed to address a serious problem but to provide plenty of showboating opportunities for the governor…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The latest statewide polls show Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump in California by 22 percentage points in the presidential race, which can be expected given the state’s deep-blue politics. In 2020, Joe Biden beat Trump by 29…
The news about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto of a far-reaching artificial intelligence bill was overheated and somewhat entertaining. “How California politics killed a nationally important AI bill,” blared the headline in a story this week in Politico. The subhead was…
By cutting its borrowing rate by a half percent on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve has provided some potential relief for wannabe home owners. The cut will lower mortgage rates and signals a sense that inflation is slowing a bit. With rising…
It’s difficult to debate policy in the midst of a political race given that partisans on both sides have already made up their minds and aren’t seriously calling balls and strikes on each candidate’s specific proposals. Yet American voters are…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For the latest example of why “local control” is no kind of governing principle, I present readers with the example of Proposition 33 — a rent-control measure that Californians will consider on the November ballot. Its supporters…
