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…
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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…
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…
U.S. hiring keeps booming. Why is California lagging behind?
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers continued hiring new workers at a brisk pace last month, providing fresh evidence that the overall economy…
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…
CALMATTERS: California should not tolerate having so many children struggling to read | Columns
Of all the skills that children may acquire in school, none surpasses reading in importance. The ability to read and…