Dan Walters: Given its failures, can California manage a transition to a carbon-free future?

Why California’s ‘model state’ is a warning, not a goal

California’s economic, academic, media, and political establishment still embraces the notion of the state’s inevitable supremacy. “The future depends on us,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) said at his first inauguration, “and we will seize this moment.” Others see California as deserving and capable of nationhood — a topic that has resurfaced with President Donald Trump’s presidency, as it reflects, in the words of one New York Times columnist, “…

Dan Walters: Given its failures, can California manage a transition to a carbon-free future?

It’s become painfully obvious in recent years that California officialdom lacks the ability to plan and deliver major projects. While examples abound, the state’s woebegone bullet train project, its tortuous efforts to implement information technology and the financial and managerial meltdown of its unemployment insurance program are among the most egregious. Given that sorry record, why should we believe the state’s plans to completely overhaul…

Dan Walters: Can California manage carbon-free transition?

It’s become painfully obvious in recent years that California officialdom lacks the ability to plan and deliver major projects.