If you thought 2008 was an interesting year in California politics consider what 2009 may offer. Something is bound to break in the battle over the budget. And one action will undoubtedly lead to a ...

be rescheduled in July sometime. In the meantime ADA lawsuits are being filed left and right throughout the state. I think it is fair to say that most people in the business community supported SB ...

Regular Fox & Hounds Daily readers know that I’m a fan of the Swiss three-question ballot initiative. Some have written to say it’s too complicated. Some say it’s politically unrealistic. It’s neither ...

Before being elected to Congress in 1982, Rep. Howard Berman had a memorable ten year stint in the California Assembly culminating in a bruising speakership fight that he lost when Assembly ...

The race to succeed Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) of California could very well produce the upset of 2016. The prohibitive favorite would seem to be Kamala Harris. As the state’s two-term attorney general, ...

California government employee unions spent nearly $100 million in the lead up to the November election to convince voters to approve new taxes and reject a measure that would have barred unions and ...

The City of Los Angeles is on the hook for an estimated $10 billion to repair its fractured infrastructure. This includes not only the City’s 6,500 miles of streets and 10,750 miles of sidewalks, but ...

The papers say that the future of taxation in California is being debated and decided these days, but those decisions, and those debates take place behind closed doors. The state’s powerful interest ...

Sacramento insiders are carefully watching the results of Tuesday’s local elections dealing with transportation issues. Resounding support for local transportation tax increases could embolden state ...

Since February 2010, California has been experiencing near-steady monthly job growth, with a net gain of over 2.3 million payroll jobs from early 2010 through October 2016. How does this lengthy job ...

Today is Veteran’s Day, an opportunity for us to pause and salute those who stand up to protect our country. Three years ago, I wrote a piece on Fox and Hounds on Veteran’s Day titled, Politics as ...

We completely screwed up California’s election system, and all we got was one lousy independent. After a decade of the miserable election experiment known as the top-two, the election to the state ...