The $68 billion high-speed boondoggle may not comply with its legal promise.
Special interest groups are stopping Mariko Yamada's raw milk bill.
The state has been harassing him for decades
Legislators in the Golden State make Breaking Bad seem mild by comparison.
Americans have become so accustomed to regulations, we've ceased to see how freedom might operate.
Prop. 209 would have hurt Asian-Americans in the name of diversity.
Can a quasi-judicial agency impose fines without first taking property owners to court?
The case isn't just about guns, but also about what it means for the public to have "rights."
The Kelly Thomas case makes it hard to be optimistic about police.
Talking about a problem is one thing, and using one's political capital to fix it is quite another.
Starting in 2014, the state will keep a list of every gun owner and the specific guns each person buys.
Increasingly, the public may be seeing that the problem isn't a handful of officials who illegally gamed the system, but a system that allows a powerful minority to legally game the majority.
Perhaps Huy Fong officials will seek out locations that don't subject them to lawsuits and costly production stoppages.
We shouldn't have to wait for a city to crumble before it can get control of its debts.
Remember how well Cash for Clunkers worked out?
The state currently operates like a Rube Goldberg Machine.
Rent control is killing the city's stock of apartments.
"Do-gooder" types are just making the situation worse.
California fiddles with long-established initiatives and referenda.
Law enforcement policies increasingly put the public at risk.
The municipal bankruptcy mess is heading to a local government near you.
Will state lawmakers heed the lesson of Stockton?
It's time for government officials to accept reality and legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
The state's truancy report is silent on core issues.
The state's water "superhighway" may dead end in a delta.
It will take radical measures to save California from the recklessness of its officials.
Supporters of the new state of Jefferson raise serious grievances against the state and federal governments.
The latest bad ideas from the Golden State.
Rail supporters in California keep chugging ahead despite a court rebuke.
Urban renewal rears its ugly head again in the Golden State.
The lure of revenues has distorted police priorities as money-hungry agencies think more about grabbing property than about fairly applying the law.
Government officials want to use eminent domain to acquire mortgages.
It's time to fix what's wrong with America's criminal justice system.
Based on her tenure in the federal government, the DHS chief will be an advocate for more of everything that has turned the current university system into such a bureaucratic, scandal-plagued mess.
Sometimes great acts of journalism are the work of average citizens.
Why the U.S. is still prosperous.
Government neutrality is the best way to ensure fairness and social peace.
Those degrees are about to cost taxpayers a lot of money.
