Driving much of the dysfunction is a progressive regulatory structure that smothers builders under mountains of red tape ...

This is a failure, not least because the government has managed to turn public transit and city sidewalks into filthy encampments and dangerous zombie drug dens.

Without Newsom's efforts, major reforms to California's stifling environmental laws would have died on the vine.

In a legislative battle a decade in the making, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California Environmental Quality Act.

In contrast to New York voters favoring a "democratic socialist," Californians chose Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and other moderate Democrats.

Jerry Brown once described reform of the California Environmental Quality Act as “the lord’s work” but he, like other recent governors, was not willing to invest enough political capital to ...