Joel Kotkin is an R.C. Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism in Houston. His newest book is “The Human City: ...

David Huntley was the picture of health. A San Diego State University professor and a triathlete, he never expected to face a disease that would stop him in his tracks in his 60s. But that’s what ALS ...

though most counties lack the jail space and resources to safely house and supervise them. The state promises money, but we’ve heard this song before.

Cherida Collins Smith, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Collins Pine Company & Chuck Henderson, Family Manager, Shasta Forest Timberlands LLC.

Gavin Newsom is behaving like a man who has spent eight years preparing to do this job. His first couple weeks of governor have resembled nothing so much as the first quarters played by the San ...

A report recently published by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) – the erstwhile authority on all housing in the state – shows locals aren’t approving the housing ...

February 21 has been designated “California Ports Day.” For those of us in the shipping and cargo handling industries, it’s about time. According to recently introduced Assembly Concurrent Resolution ...

From one end of California to the other, hundreds of cities are facing a tsunami of pension costs that officials say is forcing them to reduce vital services and could drive some—perhaps many—into ...

Enough with the mau-mauing from elderly Democrats that questions about Dianne Feinstein’s age are ageist or even anti-woman. The hypocrisy of those crying ageism is outrageous. If you want to hear ...

Election law has created an opportunity to reckon with California’s housing crisis more forcefully. That’s because election law has created extra-long terms for many local public officials around the ...

Finley Peter Dunne, a humorist and newspaper columnist at the turn of the 20 th Century famously said in making decisions, “The Supreme Court follows election returns.” The question for California is ...