Opinion

Commentary In the upper portion of southern California, which includes Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Kern Counties, one of its cities, Taft, has been holding up the annual ...

Commentary Of the 88 cities in Los Angeles County, seven made major financial moves of six or more ...

Commentary The 42 school districts in San Diego County, with the exception of Julian Union High, had a ...

Commentary With all eyes on the city of Los Angeles, thanks to a most unusual mayoral primary that ...

Commentary Over the past eight months, I have been developing a model land-use policy designed to ease the ...

Some state lawmakers are focused on making leaving costly, while ignoring the reforms that could make staying attractive.

Commentary For the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2022, the 42 school districts in San Diego County ...

This is a lightly edited transcript of an April 23rd segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His ...

Commentary The COVID lockdown year of 2020-2021 was rough on San Diego County’s 42 school districts. Combined, their ...

Commentary California’s 58 counties enjoyed a relatively calm fiscal year ending June 30, 2023. Even though their official ...

Commentary Imagine 10 regular adults pulling a large, empty cart along a flat road. As one participant is ...

Commentary The last time I saw Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) alive, he was pointing at a map. It ...

Commentary It was the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown on California schools—the impacts of this initiative that started ...

Commentary The city of Ione in central California has finally provided its published annual comprehensive financial report (ACFR) ...

Commentary California voters will wake up on Nov. 3, 2026, to vote on the nation’s first statewide tax ...

Commentary Out of all the Bay Area’s 101 cities to complete their annual audits and issue their annual ...

Commentary It was an awkward moment. I served on the Orange County, California, Board of Supervisors and attended ...

Commentary How is your city doing? My city just announced that it’s looking at putting two measures on ...

Commentary While California’s economy continues to produce some impressive headline numbers, its trajectory is becoming increasingly dependent on ...

Commentary During my decades working in the California State Senate, I heard countless variations of, "If only the ...

Commentary One would think that a few years after the COVID-19 lockdowns in California, things would settle down ...

Commentary Out of the 79 school districts in Los Angeles County, 11 made double-digit moves in the fiscal ...

Commentary California’s aggressive climate policies increase our cost of living. Taxes, regulations, and the cost of acquiring emission ...

Commentary Preparing school budgets is a monumental task. Julie Hamill, former trustee on the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified ...

Commentary There are specific due dates for filing and paying one’s income taxes, with late filings or payments ...

Commentary When I received my civil grand jury summons last year, I almost dismissed it out of hand. ...

Commentary The 80 school districts in Los Angeles County had something unique happen during the fiscal year ending ...