Steven Greenhut is western region director for the R Street Institute and was previously the Union-Tribune's California columnist. He is based in Sacramento.
California Puts Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Catch-22 Situation
Pay taxes and/or die
Pay taxes and/or die
For-profit colleges close after feds turn off easy loan spigot
Despite abuses, legislators expanding confidential licenses for public employees
Bill does little to limit agencies' ability to float debt, use eminent domain
Continued puzzling drop could yield a domestic 'peace dividend'
The quest for affordable housing drives up costs for many for the benefit of a few
State and feds about to empty reservoirs to save a few fish
Senator uses futuristic lingo to push old ideas: taxing and spending
Police often wrongly claim that photography equals 'obstruction'
State needs regulatory reform, not armies of new inspectors
Costly contract provisions from the state attorney general are making it more difficult for a hospital to be sold, and saved.
State bill targets university's 'believe it or not' edict.
State's rigid overtime rules squelch choice and innovation while politically connected unions are exempt.
Anti-vaping campaign is more about ideology than public health.
A federal judge rebuked the 'bully' CalPERS in the case of Stockton's bankruptcy.
The northern California city of nearly 300,000 has become a key test case on whether cities can reduce their unaffordable public pensions when they head into bankruptcy court
Federal rule change won't stop locals from 'policing for profit'
The Little Hoover Commission examines why Californians don't trust their government. Media and lack of funds, not corruption and inefficiency, cited as causes.
Will Big Brother monitor our driving habits?
The state is challenging, rather than resolve, a lawsuit brought by low-income students who say they are deprived of their right to a quality education.
Will he emphasize fiscal control or far-reaching environmental agenda?
Residents should hold on tight to their wallets.
In new report, public employees accused of lying and theft, though face few penalties
Political self-interest is driving California's long-term fiscal problems
A case in California spotlights their political 'playbook'
A look into the way some police unions across California intimidate political opponents into silence
New report: There eventually will be more retirees collecting pension checks than there will be employees paying into the system
California files appeal to court's latest pro-gun-rights decision
Second Amendment supporters file First Amendment lawsuit
ACLU 'model ordinance' would at least require a public debate
Government doesn't decide the number of gardeners or car-repair shops. Why should it do that for taxis?
A federal judge approved Stockton's bankruptcy exit plan which punts on pension debt. But other cities are free to tackle the problem, and they must.
A northern California legal case involving state and federal efforts to secure a massive financial settlement from the state's largest land owner is rife with allegations of fraud, corruption, and official misconduct
California's Proposition 45 would make health care even more convoluted.
The new law is less about the firearms and more about trying to identify people who might be too dangerous to own them.
California's Department of Industrial Relations slapped the owners of the Westover Winery with more than $115,000 in fines and assessments for using volunteer workers.
Can education reform triumph? Or will the union reign?
Red tape is driving some workers underground, so already-licensed workers are calling for even more red tape.
Stay tuned. If Proposition 47 passes, it will be another sign that the days are over of winning political points by promising to execute teens.
They want to punish "greedy, wealthy" CEOs to "help California's economy."
This completely undermines the governor's pension reform law. Will he let that happen?
California just decided your silence sounds awfully guilty.
A California Democrat is cooking up something very un-democratic.
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