Dan Walters
Dan Walters: $10 billion in debt not on Jerry Brown's wall
When Gov. Jerry Brown talks about reducing the state's "wall of debt," he carefully limits it to about $30 billion in budget deficits, mostly money owed to schools and community colleges.
Dan Walters
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DAN WALTERS
Dan Walters: California State Bar bill hits competition
California, it's now acknowledged, has a glut of lawyers.
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DAN WALTERS
Dan Walters: Is Bay Bridge debacle a harbinger?
Jerry Brown did one of his characteristic political pirouettes Monday.
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DAN WALTERS
Dan Walters: Big Capitol fight on Medi-Cal looms among Democrats
As he presented his revised 2013-14 budget to the Legislature last week, Gov. Jerry Brown warned against expanding spending beyond his administration's conservative revenue estimates.
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DAN WALTERS
Dan Walters: Legislative analyst gives Democrats more money
Jerry Brown who made "lower your expectations" a catchphrase of his first governorship is back in that mode during his second stint, especially on spending.
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DAN WALTERS
Dan Walters: A perilous tax trend accelerates
When voters passed Proposition 30 last year, they unwittingly accelerated one of the most perilous trends in California governmental finance an ever-increasing reliance on income taxes from rich people to finance schools and myriad other state and local services.
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DAN WALTERS
Dan Walters: California school aid, safety net programs in budget conflict
Twenty-five years ago, California voters approved albeit very narrowly the education community's ballot measure that engraved a complex school finance structure into the state constitution.
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DAN WALTERS
Dan Walters: Why would anybody want to be L.A. mayor?
As an 18th-century frontier village, it was named El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula, or in English, Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Little Portion.
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DAN WALTERS
Dan Walters: Love could kill Jerry Brown's school plan
Gov. Jerry Brown's ambitious plan to overhaul how California schools are financed may be loved to death.
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DAN WALTERS
Dan Walters: California could owe $1 trillion
There's absolutely nothing wrong, per se, with incurring debt, whether it's by families, businesses or governments. A functional credit market is absolutely vital to a modern economy.
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DAN WALTERS
Dan Walters: Can crime again be big issue in California?
Crime dominated California's political landscape during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s before giving way to other preoccupations.


