Policymakers need to focus more on harsh realities if they want real solutions.
California's gun registration program is a mess.
Every awful situation cannot be remedied by government regulation.
Next week's budget showdown will include a fight over an amendment prohibiting the DOJ from preventing states from legalizing medical marijuana.
The city wants to spend a grant it got giving residents $500 a month for two years.
The governor often talks about fiscal frugality, responsibility and reform, but there isn't much follow-up action.
Seeks to ban registration of vehicles that aren't zero emissions, in 2040.
Dealing with the pension crisis.
As the state legislature reconvenes, getting rid of cash bail will likely be on the table.
Looking toward the Tenth Amendment.
The California governor is starting to take on the public-sector unions he has spent his career empowering.
California's pension fund looks to shift blame and avoid responsibility.
Lawmakers want to meddle in everything you do, but they protect each other.
California's government workers have a whole range of ways to game the pension system.
A new California ballot initiative proposal combines wishful thinking with the heavy hand of government.
Orange County denied a workers comp claim by deputies who attended the concert at Mandalay Bay and say they sustained injuries responding to it.
And it's already contentious.
There's a war on business on the way.
Perhaps it's time to stop waiting for Sacramento, and start pressuring local governments to soften their regulatory restrictions.
Local California officials warn of a looming disaster.
The president is sending a message that law enforcement has more latitude now to bend and break the rules.
California lawmakers kept themselves busy.
California looks to grant its residents new "rights."
Public schools cherry-picking students, something they once accused charters of doing.
"Project labor agreements" requiring union contracts on most government work are spreading in California.
CalPERS strikes back against small towns and agencies trying to leave its system.
After a large jury verdict award over a rapist cop, the Orange County Sheriff's Department says it's looking into changing its policies.
Anaheim school district resisted effort tooth and nail.
It's how their rules were made to work.
The bill would drive up struggling counties' costs of providing such services.
Assembly Bill 284 had little chance of passage because it dealt with an actual problem and was getting pushback from some muscular lobbies.
Unions try to use good years to deflect attention from a growing problem.
Legislature aiming at a scary precedent.
California's Board of Equalization is the only tax board in the nation with elected representatives.
The latest budget has new spending but no attempts at serious reform.
The state legislature is failing to heed the will of the voters.
Costs are rising even as the prison population gets smaller.
Choice advocates win in school board race in second largest district in country.
City tax collector wants to post home addresses of drivers online.
California lawmakers are trying to dig a hole too big to fail.
Innumerates number the ranks of politicians and bureaucrats.
A union-controlled state agency trying to overturn a citizen initiative passed in San Diego has finally been rebuffed in court.
Californians would be better equipped to govern themselves fairly.
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