City Controller Kenneth Mejia has repeatedly warned Mayor Karen Bass and city council members that the city was overspending vis-à-vis revenues, creating a growing structural deficit.

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Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 60 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers.

Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 60 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers.

Gavin Newsom loves to boast about the state he governs, claiming that California is No. 1 in some category or that the state is leading in some economic or cultural activity. Sometimes his boasts ...

Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 60 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers.

Dan Walters has been a journalist for over half a century, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers starting in 1960, at age 16, at the Humboldt Times in Eureka ...

Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 60 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers.

Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 60 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers.

Dan Walters has been a journalist for over half a century, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers starting in 1960, at age 16, at the Humboldt Times in Eureka ...