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Has Prop. 13 Really Robbed California of Property-Tax Revenue?

Matt Welch | 6.3.2009 5:20 PM

California: Harbinger of Fiscal Doom

What the Golden State's bleak future means for America

Brian Doherty | 6.3.2009 3:00 PM

Blame the Voters, Pass the Buck

L.A. Times writers who bemoan "feel-good 'ballot box budgeting'" ignore the paper's longstanding support for bond-measure politics.

Matt Welch | 6.2.2009 6:00 PM

Jim the Realtor's Bad House Project, or, "I got an ice cream truck on every video."

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.1.2009 2:50 PM

The $499,000 Pension and Other Tales of California Governance

Matt Welch | 6.1.2009 9:02 AM

Matt Welch on KFI's John and Ken Show at 5 pm PDT, Talking California Budget Politics

Matt Welch | 5.29.2009 6:43 PM

California's Silent Big Spenders

Political class refuses to explain why the state requires hysterical spending growth

Matt Welch | 5.28.2009 4:50 PM

LAT Columnist: State Spending Problem a "Myth"…Unless You Count All State Spending

Matt Welch | 5.28.2009 11:01 AM

Paul Krugman: If Only California Could Just Raise Taxes

Matt Welch | 5.26.2009 9:31 AM

The California Scare Campaign

Matt Welch | 5.24.2009 9:25 AM

California Nightmare: All The Voters are Mad, and the Ink is Red

Brian Doherty | 5.21.2009 4:18 PM

Matt Welch on WBAL at 3:35 EDT to Talk California Politics

Matt Welch | 5.21.2009 2:32 PM

The real winner in California : You!

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.21.2009 2:10 PM

Why Governments Are Lousy at Running Business, But Excellent at Scaring You About "Annihilating" Budget Cuts

Matt Welch | 5.21.2009 9:26 AM

Union Chief, to the California He Helped Drive Into the Ditch: "I think democracy is an ugly thing"

Matt Welch | 5.21.2009 7:15 AM

As the Dust Settles on California in the Wake of The Thankfully Failed Special Election Initiative, Revisit One More Time Exactly What The Golden State's Problem Was, Is, and Continues to Be…

Nick Gillespie | 5.20.2009 11:23 AM

California's Political/Journalistic Class = Fail

Matt Welch | 5.20.2009 10:40 AM

Massive California ballot initiative fail

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.20.2009 8:20 AM

Defenders of Democracy Fail, Yet Again, to Convince the Polity

Matt Welch | 5.19.2009 11:18 AM

Even Gov. Arnold Won't Defend His Record/Ballot Initiatives in Today's Special Election in California!

Nick Gillespie | 5.19.2009 7:49 AM

Government Buy Nothing Days

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.18.2009 9:42 AM

Life After Heller

More lawyers, more guns, some nunchuks, and the 14th Amendment

Brian Doherty | 5.5.2009 6:45 PM

The Difficulty of Firing Teachers in L.A., or, Hey! Kids! Leave Those Teachers Alone!

Brian Doherty | 5.4.2009 7:57 PM

California Politicians, to Citizens: It's Too Difficult to Tax You

Matt Welch | 4.24.2009 8:51 AM

Reason Writers Around Town: Matt Welch on Politicizing Nick Adenhart's Death

Reason Staff | 4.13.2009 8:46 AM

Factoid of the Day

Matt Welch | 4.1.2009 12:36 PM

L.A. to Sell Zoo, Convention Center?

Matt Welch | 3.19.2009 6:04 PM

Now We're Headed for the Big Divorce, California-Style

Matt Welch | 3.17.2009 11:09 AM

Speak Out Against Single-ism, Or, What If We Had a Wedding and No One Came?

Jeff Winkler | 3.9.2009 10:40 AM

Because Every Cancer Patient Needs a Calming Recipe!

Matt Welch | 2.24.2009 7:05 PM

California Hail Marys

Matt Welch | 2.24.2009 8:32 AM

You Will Like the New California Budget OR ELSE!

Matt Welch | 2.19.2009 6:06 PM

Fiscal Responsibility Never Reigns in California

Matt Welch | 2.19.2009 11:55 AM

Minority Whipping, in California and Elsewhere

Matt Welch | 2.18.2009 10:20 AM

"One day we'll be an absolutely smoke-free world"

Matt Welch | 1.8.2009 10:36 AM

A Brighter Shade of Gray

Matt Welch | 12.26.2008 12:02 PM

Did You Double Your Pleasure?

Matt Welch | 12.22.2008 8:42 AM

Unmutual at UC Irvine

Matt Welch | 12.15.2008 11:41 AM

Free Speech, Limousine Liberal-Style: A Comedy in Six Acts

Matt Welch | 12.11.2008 5:40 PM

Where Ano Means Yes

Matt Welch | 11.26.2008 12:51 PM

At What Price Is Saving a House, When the Savior Might Break the No-Siren Rule?

Matt Welch | 11.24.2008 4:23 PM

What Happens When You Decline Pre-Reeducation

Matt Welch | 11.21.2008 6:21 PM

"California Bent on Rebuilding Despite Wildfire Risk"

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.18.2008 6:02 PM

Now He Tells Us

Matt Welch | 11.10.2008 4:21 PM

Pass the Biscuits

We're living in Pappy O'Daniel's world

Jesse Walker | 8.19.2003 12:00 AM

Law & Government

The Irrelevance of Law

David Friedman | 8.1.1992 12:00 PM

Republican Party

Bigger or Better?

Will Republican leaders embrace the tax-and-spend policies of Pete Wilson or Bill Weld's entrepreneurial government?

Rick Henderson | 11.1.1991 10:05 AM

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Invasion of the City Snatchers

When city planners descended on Hollywood to clean up "urban blight," they used every trick in the book to get their way…coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

Sarah Foster | 1.1.1988 12:00 PM

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