For many years, California’s powerful Public Utilities Commission has conducted Kabuki-style dances with the multi-billion-dollar corporations it regulates. But the latest significant commission decision amounts to a descent into comic opera. When the PUC deals […]

It will be no surprise if Californians don’t see many needed highway repairs getting underway in the next year. For the Jerry Brown administration says it will take $59 billion to repair state roads and […]

It will be too easy for writers and columnists to formulate their Worst Moments of 2015 lists this year because, once again, gun events—terrorist and otherwise—will dominate those lists. Reflection on the darkness enveloping our […]

Editor’s Note: Below is an open letter from the Santa Monica Democratic Club sent on Dec. 12 to Representative Ted Lieu. Dear Representative Lieu: We the executive board of the Santa Monica Democratic Club wish […]

Ballot initiative campaigns don’t usually center around definitions, but the question of what’s a pension and what’s not is one battle over definitions that’s very likely to face voters this fall. After years of frustration […]

Rarely has a political party flailed in as many futile ways as California’s branch of the Republican Party. In a state where Latinos are plainly on their way to becoming the largest voting bloc, the […]

Anyone looking for a roadmap showing which of California’s 53 congressional district elections will be tight next year need look no farther than how the state’s House Democrats voted last month on a bill that […]

After more than three years of steadfastly denying the increased enrollment of foreign and out-of-state students could endanger the very California identity of the University of California, it’s stunning and encouraging to see the 10-campus […]

There is no doubt Gov. Jerry Brown has tolerated corruption in his administration. But now there are hints that he might be personally involved in some of it. For corruption Brown has known about, but […]

There was good news and bad news – and in other ways no news at all – in the latest results of standardized tests given each year to California public school students. It was, for […]