Dan Walters
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- Sep 29, 2026
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Opinion: As presidential bid looms, Gov. Newsom steers to the center with vetoes (opens the original)
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This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Nearly a half-century ago, while addressing a group of high school students, Jerry Brown enunciated his canoe theory of governance. “The way you have to approach the political process is something like piloting a canoe,” Brown said in 1979, referring to his often abrupt changes of policy. “If you stand up on one side you’ll fall in. If you stand up on the other side you’ll fall in. But if you paddle a little b
Opinion: Water for California’s future hinges on outcome of 4 intertwined battles (opens the original)
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This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Since the earliest years of its history, California has been a political battlefield over divvying up the state’s water. The intensity of the multisided conflict, like water itself, ebbs and flows. By happenstance this is one of the more intense and climactic periods in the eternal competition over water. It’s driven by uncertainty over the effects of climate change on precipitation and by looming decisions on
Opinion: Local governments rush tax hikes before voters can change rules (opens the original)
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This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. November’s ballot is dominated by measures that would alter how California levies taxes, including one that would make it more difficult for local governments to gain voter approval of tax hikes. Proposition 43 would overturn a state Supreme Court ruling and require that single-purpose taxes placed on local ballots via initiative petitions get two-thirds voter approval, just as they do when proposed by the gov
Opinion: 5 propositions ask Californians to decide who should pay new taxes (opens the original)
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This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. There are 14 statewide measures on California’s Nov. 3 ballot, ranging widely in concept and potential impact. Five of them pose a fundamental question: Who should pay hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes to support local public services? The centerpiece is Proposition 40, which would levy a 5% tax on the personal wealth of about 200 California billionaires, mostly to bolster healthcare programs. It’s draw
Opinion: California primary foreshadowed perils facing national Democratic Party (opens the original)
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This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In November, California voters will elect a new governor, fill other statewide offices and choose occupants of 152 legislative and congressional seats. It’s certain — as certain as anything can be in politics — that the vast majority of the men and women voters elect will be Democrats, extending the party’s three-decade-long domination of California. The only mystery is whether Democrats can capture all five o
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