Dan Morain's Substack
Dan MorainPeriodic posts about California politics and policy, my next book, and the occasional scoop.
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Cali Carlisle sits at many intersections
At noon on Friday, a waif sat on a narrow median at a busy intersection near a Home Depot in Sacramento. Her brown hair was frazzled, her eyes were dark, and she held a small piece of cardboard with writing too weathered to read.
Her name...
Old warriors gather with hatchets buried, not in one another
In the gauzy passage of years, politicians who once fought bitterly spoke of respect for the loyal opposition, and mostly meant it.
Jim Brulte is the Republican who came within a vote of becoming speaker of the California assembly in 1994....
Xavier Becerra’s parents’ California Dream
Voters should take issue with Xavier Becerra’s campaign for governor. All but guaranteed of victory over his Republican opponent Steve Hilton, Becerra is taking few stands, issuing no white papers, and making no grand pronouncements.
That...
Settlement helps people with mental illness, to a point
Listeners to a discussion focused on behavioral health in Sacramento last week might have missed the big news if they weren’t dialed into one important and complex facet of our mental illness crisis. I moderated the panel at the invitation...
What Chatham Asset Management discarded
Photographs in simple black frames lined the walls of the editorial board meeting room on the third floor of the old Sacramento Bee building. There were maybe two dozen photos, all of them portraits, and they told a story of endurance and v...
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My book about the history and politics of our mental health system due in April 2027. Author of “Kamala’s Way, An American Life.” Worked at the LA Times, LA Her-Ex, SacBee and CalMatters.
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