Dan Walters has been a journalist for more  than a half-century, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers.  At one point in his career, at age 22, he was the nation’s youngest daily newspaper editor.
Mr. Walters joined The Sacramento Union’s  Capitol bureau in 1975, just as Jerry Brown began his governorship, and later became the Union’s Capitol bureau chief.  In 1981, he began writing the state’s only daily newspaper column devoted to California political, economic, and social events and in 1984, he and the column moved to The Sacramento Bee.  He has written more than 7,500 columns about California and its politics and his column now appears in more than 50 California newspapers.
Dan Walters has written about California and its politics for a number of other publications, including The Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor.  He is also a frequent guest on national television news shows, commenting on California politics. Walters will give his take on the current state of affairs in Sacramento including cap & trade, green house gases, and more subjects of interest to the industry.

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