If California truly wants to be a progressive state, the California Dream should be available to everyone—not only to those ...

Connecting California Columnist and Editor, Zócalo Public Square, Fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden ...

Among the many problems California faces the next fiscal year, none is more important than the needs of local governments and the lack of funding. Much of the lack of local financial stability stems ...

Every so often, a familiar complaint bubbles up: “Why does my neighbor pay a few thousand dollars a year in property taxes while mine is in the tens of thousands?” It sounds unfair at first blush. But ...

Proposition 13 has been under attack ever since Californians approved the historic property tax reform initiative, and this year is no exception. The argument is more of the same, a rehash of the ...

Every so often, a familiar complaint bubbles up: Why does my neighbor pay a few thousand dollars a year in property taxes while mine is in the tens of thousands? It sounds unfair at first blush, but ...

Bill Monroe wrote an interesting piece regarding educational costs, placing the rising costs on Proposition 13. For those who may not know or recall, Prop. 13 came about due to a continual rise of ...

As California considers taxing the wealth of billionaires, one San Francisco academic said he believes it’s long past time to rethink and revamp what many consider to be the original wealth tax — the ...