Last week, former California governor Jerry Brown, 87, defended the state’s non-functional high-speed rail project, better known as the bullet train. “We’ve got the money. We’re a rich state,” Brown proclaimed. “We got $4 trillion in gross domestic product. Spain has…
Oscar Murdock, my sainted father, does not wear his heart on his sleeve. At age 92, he is beyond such sentimentality. Instead, every day, he affixes a beer-coaster-sized button to his shirt. It reads: “Trump Was Right.” What I treasure most about that item is its subtlety….
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has reversed a decision to parole Royce Miller, convicted of second-degree murder for strangling San Francisco high-school student Maxina Danner in 2004. Those who believe this signals a tougher approach on violent crime have a few things to consider….
California’s Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act gives voters the final approval on future taxes and fees imposed by state and local governments. The measure gathered nearly one million signatures and has qualified for the November 5 ballot. Gov. Gavin Newsom and former…
Sacramento California state officials might have noticed that we’re enduring yet another historic drought — one so intense that the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the nation’s largest water supplier, has this week announced mandatory conservation measures that not…
Sacramento Like rust, California’s initiative process never sleeps. There’s always some new political battle that’s brewing given the state’s permissive rules for qualifying statewide ballot measures, which let deep-pocketed special interests put wide-ranging legislation before the public. Given the signature-gathering…
If a conservative is a liberal who got mugged, California is about to have a bumper crop of right-wingers as the social compact is crumbling in the Golden State and beyond. California retailers are under siege as smash-and-grab gangs raid…
Sacramento One of my best memories of encountering California came in 1998, as I was moving from a small industrial city in Ohio. I crossed the Colorado River, in a packed car with a panting dog and disgruntled cat, and…
For the first time in at least a century, California has actually lost population. The latest Department of Finance data shows that the state lost 182,000 people last year. Californians have for years been leaving for states with friendlier tax…
