John Seiler: Normally I wouldn't insist on putting a whole category of people in insane asylums. But that's where we should put all of California's millionaires. Anyone who sticks around this state and pays the massive taxes they do is certifiably insane. Any sane millionaire already should...

John Seiler: Dan Walters is the dean of California columnists. I've learned more from him about California politics than from anyone else. But sometimes he gets one wrong. Such as today. He writes: "The last big recession to hit  California was in the early 1990s and largely centered in  Sout...

Steven Greenhut: As former Assembly member Todd Spitzer becomes heir apparent to the Orange County board of supervisors seat now that his conservative foe Chuck DeVore has withdrawn from the race to move to Texas, his defenders are trying to portray him as some sort of conservative. Indeed, many GOP...

John Seiler: Will somebody cut up California's credit cards -- please! The latest: Treasurer Bill Lockyer plans to offer $1.8 billion in tax-free bonds and $200 million in taxable issues to raise cash for voter-approved infrastructure projects. The general obligation bonds typically are sold ...

Katy Grimes: State Fund insurance announced last week that it will lay off 1,800 to 2,500 employees because of workers compensation reform -- enacted in 2004. State Compensation Insurance Fund, the state's last resort workers compensation insurance carrier, has had eight years to adjust as busine...

John Seiler: I never thought I would read this headline from Gallup: "Chinese Struggling Less Than Americans to Afford Basics." It was just 50 years ago that up to 46 million Chinese starved to death in Mao's socialist Great Leap Forward. Now, having switched to capitalism after Mao joined Le...