CALMATTERS: California restaurants shouldn’t be shocked law banning ‘junk fees’ applies to them | Columns
Last Friday, a friend and I met at a chain restaurant in Sacramento for our customary weekly lunch. Both of…
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CALMATTERS: Lagging revenue continues to drive California budget deficit as deadline nears | Columns
As the June 15 constitutional deadline for enacting a 2024-25 state budget approaches, the good news for Gov. Gavin Newsom…
CALMATTERS: Key questions about California’s budget deficit remain unanswered as deadlines loom | Columns
The must-follow website this month among California’s politicians, bureaucrats and interest group lobbyists is the “California Personal Income Tax Daily…
How will legislation banning TikTok affect the music industry?
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the popular app,…
CALMATTERS: If Newsom truly follows the science, why not adopt the ‘science of reading’ in California schools? | Columns
When COVID-19 struck California four years ago and people started dying, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared an emergency and assumed unilateral…
CALMATTERS: Californians pay high gas prices and high gas taxes yet still drive on bad highways | Columns
To state the obvious, California motorists are experiencing one of the state’s periodic spikes in gasoline prices. California’s average price…
CALMATTERS: Newsom, legislators opt for gimmicks and wishful thinking to close California’s budget deficit | Columns
Gov. Gavin Newsom and his fellow Democrats in the Legislature spent their way into a massive state budget deficit by…
CALMATTERS: Southern California’s huge logistics industry faces a backlash over wages and pollution | Columns
A half-century ago, Southern California’s financial, political and civic leaders made a fateful decision that the region’s economic future could…
CALMATTERS: California spends billions on homelessness yet the crisis keeps getting worse | Columns
California not only has the nation’s largest number of homeless people, but one of its highest rates of homelessness vis-à-vis…
CALMATTERS: Gavin Newsom’s new budget is already leaking red ink as revenues fall behind | Columns
While Gov. Gavin Newsom gallivants around the country as a campaign surrogate for President Joe Biden – and to burnish…