Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, two erstwhile centrist Republicans running for governor, spent the weekend in a race to the right, each trying to persuade delegates to a state GOP convention that he or ...

Dan Whitman is not a wealthy man, but he has the heart of a real life Santa and is enriching the holidays for random strangers. A Naugatuck man’s random acts in kindness come in little white envelopes ...

About a year ago, this column surveyed the potential candidates for California governor and the problems that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successor would face, then offered a semi-facetious suggestion ...

California is obviously a troubled state, with a moribund economy, sky-high unemployment, a chronically unbalanced state budget, a failing public education system, a congested and crumbling ...