Dan Walters

A risky tax trend picks up steam

When voters passed Proposition 30 last year, they unwittingly accelerated one of the most perilous trends in California governmental finance -- an ever-increasing reliance on income taxes from rich people to finance schools and myriad other state and loca

School funding unravels safety net

Twenty-five years ago, California voters approved -- albeit very narrowly -- the education community's ballot measure that engraved a complex school finance structure into the state constitution.

Dan Walters: Why run for mayor of L.A.?

As an 18th Century frontier village, it was named "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula" or in English, "Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Little Portion."

When is debt too much to handle?

Immigration reform has big stakes

Secrecy becomes all too common

It's still too early to assess Brown 2

Politics continue to foul the delta

State Senate bills may decide medical practices

State's taxation hot issue again

Dan Walters: Teachers' CalSTRS pension gap is just ignored

State needs to take long view

Did CALPERS secrecy abet investment scheme?

Does Brown really want less red tape?

Might porn depart California?

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