The Local Control Funding Formula, enacted in 2013, is supposed to make sure more education dollars are used in ways that specifically help struggling students. Gov. Jerry Brown pushed for the ...

Might a pending disaster of the Oroville Dam spillway collapse move the legislature to a compromise on infrastructure funding? One of the criticisms that has arisen since the threat of a water deluge ...

Instead of doing its job, the state wants to cut taxes. That’s the essence of a new legislative effort to cut taxes on marijuana being sold legally. The tax cut is meant to address a real problem: ...

Last June, I wrote a column forecasting from least likely to most likely the tax increase measures that might be on the November 2016 ballot given the conversations going on then. Time for an update.

Phones rang off the hook at the Wendy Greuel for L.A. mayor campaign when the candidate declared that she was for sitting down with the public employee unions to reconsider the pension reforms ...