Maybe we should look at Arnold Schwarzenegger's ill-fated term as governor as a Shakespearean tragedy. A "fatal flaw" brings down an heroic character. For Hamlet, the "fatal flaw" was hesitation; for King Lear, a desire to retire and carouse with his soldiers; for MacBeth, listening to his bloodt...

This just in: 30,275 people applied to serve on the Citizen's Redistricting Commission. That's right -- the one with 14 spots. (Almost like applying to college!) The February 16 deadline will give way to Prop. 11's redistricting effort in 2011. Critics attacked '11' as a power play by Republican...

Mar. 9, 2010 Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters has been covering California politics since 1975. No one writing about our beloved state government has more experience or authority. But Walters did a curious thing in his March 3 column, titled “Brown’s back – with his baggage.” After...

March 9, 2010 By JOHN SEILER In some of the articles I’ve written for CalWatchdog, I’ve devised new ways of looking at policies and their consequences, such as my “California Jobs Gap” calculation here and here. It showed that California’s unemployment rate was much higher than the n...