The longer the state delays making crucial fixes to its crumbling water infrastructure, the more costly it will get. Unfortunately, the $11.1 billion water bond on the November ballot has so much pork in it that voters are likely to kill it, and that will set back the effort for years. Read comments

The California Air Resources Board has unanimously approved new regulations that mandate car manufacturers to cut smog emissions from new vehicles by 75% by 2025 and greenhouse gases by 34%. Read comments

The Facebook public stock offering will produce a tax windfall for the state, but it also offers state leaders a lesson in California's unwieldy tax system. Read comments

California finally is making headway in reducing numbers in overcrowded prisons — enough to get the federal courts to say that the end of federal receivership “appears to be in sight.” Read comments

The fight against breast cancer is so crucial that we must not allow politics to get in the way of finding a cure. That happened for a few days when the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation decided to end funding to Planned Parenthood. Read comments

Thumbs up to Rodger and Margaret Jensen, who have given $1.5 million to the Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology at California State University, Fresno, to fund seven scholarships yearly for agricultural business or plant science students. Recipients will be known as Jensen Scholars. Each scholarship will cover in-state annual tuition of approximately $6,000. Read comments

Thanks to the leaders of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, breast cancer research is now a political issue, and subject to the divisive politics that seems to be ingrained in our culture. You'd think that we could all agree to fight breast cancer together. Read comments

There was a time before Indian gaming exploded when tribal council elections were rather routine. But as millions of dollars began pouring through casinos, the councils became centers of tribal power, and controversial. Read comments

It's no secret that the California Public Utilities Commission has been very cozy with the utilities it regulates. The PUC, especially under President Michael Peevey, is generally a rubber stamp of rate increases requested by the utilities. The PUC also has failed in it role of regulating utilities, and that lack of oversight has led to a major tragedy. Read comments

We have supported Mayor Ashley Swearengin's commitment to improving downtown Fresno because we believe that every city resident has a stake in a vibrant downtown. Any portion of Fresno that is neglected will cost taxpayers, with precious public resources being spent to resolve crime and other social problems. Read comments