Walters: Californians’ patience on homelessness is wearing thin
Incident dramatized the frustration that millions feel about the squalid encampments.
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Walters: California’s volatile tax revenue system strikes again
Ideally, the state would alter its public finance structure, but there's little political appetite for reform.
Walters: Misuse of environmental law to stop housing calls for CEQA reform
Governor and Legislature have failed to perform an overhaul that would reinstate law's original purpose.
Walters: California’s Proposition 13 battle enters a new phase
Levies on oil, property transfers are subject of the latest legal fights over iconic, 44-year-old tax-limitation measure.
Walters: What California can learn from major winter storms
Rain, snow contains lessons for politicians, if they pay attention.
Walters: A new year, but California’s old crises still abound
The state has received two statistical jolts that should be wake-up calls on the need for decisive action.
Walters: Federal judge blocks Newsom’s foolish gun law
Legislators who voted for SB 1327 should be ashamed of themselves.
Walters: California’s water conundrum hinges on Delta
How much water can be taken from the two rivers without destroying its function as habitat for fish and other wildlife?
Walters: Union conflict threatens California housing legislation
Wiener hopes to “thread the needle” with compromise language that would allow the legislation to pass.
Walters: The real cause of California’s homelessness crisis
Author contends that the progressive politics of California and other states are largely to blame.