HeyJaredDan Walters Calmatters
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 7
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Ukiah Daily Journal
- Top 5M sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 7, 2026
Latest articles
From the desk of… Deal allowing Paramount-Warner Bros. merger may not cure Hollywood’s troubles (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In sheer economic terms, Southern California’s movie and television production industry is not terribly important, generating scarcely 1% of the state’s $4 trillion-plus annual economic output. However, Hollywood is California’s signature icon and a cultural powerhouse with global impact. Therefore its actors, directors, executives and unions wield disproportionate political clout. Thus, when the industry began experiencing an outflow of production to other states and other nations a few decades
From the desk of…California’s budget is so convoluted that even experts are perplexed at what it contains (opens the original)
Read excerpt
There was a time, not too many years ago, when drafting and enacting California’s budgets was a fairly transparent and straightforward process. The governor and legislators would agree on what revenues the state’s tax systems were likely to produce in the coming year and then dicker over how the money would be spent. There were disagreements, of course, particularly when Republicans had enough legislative seats to have a say in the outcome. But in the main, the voting public would have an unders
From the desk of…California’s local governments rush to ask for tax increases before voters get the chance to curb them (opens the original)
Read excerpt
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 governments themselves. The court declared that initiative-based tax measures need only si
From the desk of…Is California’s slow road to high-speed rail worth chipping in $1 billion a year? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
California journalist Joe Mathews rode Morocco’s high-speed train recently and penned a fully justified and blistering comparison between what the North African nation achieved quickly and relatively inexpensively and California’s laughingstock bullet train project. “Morocco and California are remarkably similar in size (Morocco is 172,000 square miles, California 163,000) and in population (California is 40 million, Morocco 38.4 million),” Mathews wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle. “Both ar
From the desk of…Does crowning California’s governor the education czar mean academic results will improve? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In late June, after only a few minutes of discussion, both houses of the Legislature completely overhauled how California manages the nation’s largest public school system and its nearly 6 million students. The votes for Assembly Bill 181 — 21-4 in the Senate and 52-4 in the Assembly — reflected a bipartisan consensus, rare for major issues, that the system has been failing California’s children. The votes were based on an implicit, perhaps even desperate, hope that streamlining administration m
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 5M sites
For Ukiah Daily Journal, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.