FresnoBee.com: Dan Walters

Another insurance firefight on horizon

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:02:45 PST

When California's political consultants share war stories, 1988's immensely expensive, multi-front battle between insurance companies and lawyer-backed consumer groups takes center stage. Read comments

Jerry Brown: older, still waffling

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:29:33 PST

Jerry Brown's first governorship was marked by what one might term charitably a high degree of flexibility. Read comments

Courts compete for state dollars

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:12:09 PST

When the state assumed full financial responsibility for the court system a decade ago, it was billed as a way of relieving pressure on county finances. Read comments

Recession is taking toll on Calif.'s trade business

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:57:53 PST

As America's trade with the Far East expanded massively during the 1980s and 1990s, California reaped the benefits as the gateway for both exports and imports. Read comments

Voters could sink water package

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:25:59 PST

Maywood is one of California's tiniest and most troubled cities, a plot of scarcely 750 acres southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Read comments

Red ink rises despite state's budget sham

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:40:50 PST

Mike Genest, who announced recently that he is resigning as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget director, deserves a respite after four years of dealing with the state's chronic fiscal crisis. Read comments

Bill change underscores the need for journalists

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:56:06 PST

A batch of amendments to a massive water bond bill was submitted to the state Senate's clerical desk Monday, and one of them, as it turned out, had nothing to do with water. Read comments

Next year's vote shapes up as trip to fantasyland

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:32:22 PST

Exactly one year from today, California voters will pretend that electing a new governor will somehow improve their chronically ineffective state government. Read comments

Redistricting should be quite a political show

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:49:17 PDT

When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and political reform groups enacted a ballot measure to shift legislative redistricting from the Legislature to an independent commission, they purposely left congressional redistricting in lawmakers' hands. Read comments

Water's only certainty is immense impact on land

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:44:04 PDT

They're fighting over water in the Capitol, but lurking just below the surface is the real issue of how and where California develops land in the years and decades ahead. Read comments