Political columnist George Skelton has covered government and politics for 60 years and for The Times since 1974. He has been a Times political writer and editor in Los Angeles, Sacramento bureau chief and White House correspondent. He has written a column on California politics, “Capitol Journal,” since 1993. Skelton is a Santa Barbara native, grew up in Ojai and received a journalism degree at San Jose State.
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California lawmakers would love to sell bonds to fund ambitious and often worthy projects. Fortunately, voters will have the final say on which projects merit borrowing.
Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento almost blew it by trying to block a bill making child sex trafficking a serious felony.
The nation’s founders declared that all men are created equal. It was a noble declaration of principles that had little resemblance to real life.
Gov. Gavin Newsom failed to ram through the Legislature his last-minute proposal to expedite construction of a highly controversial water tunnel in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is frustrated because California isn’t building nonstop as it did in the mid-20th century.
Key lawmakers are pushing back against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s late-entry legislation to expedite construction of a highly controversial water tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
The California Legislature has passed another so-called on-time state budget. Wink-wink. It’s barely a half-baked budget.
Column: Newsom’s right on stricter gun laws but he misfired on his proposed constitutional amendment
California’s liberal governor has absolutely no chance of getting a gun control amendment adopted. It’s beyond the realm of political possibility — at least for the foreseeable future.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crass stunt of flying desperate immigrants to California and dumping them on the doorstep of a Catholic Diocese headquarters showed us one thing: He’s not fit to be America’s president.
California has arguably the nation’s strictest gun laws. And we’ve got one of the lowest rates of gun deaths. States with lax gun controls, especially in the South, have some of the highest gun death rates.