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• “Party’s Over: Tech Crash Spells Trouble for SF’s Tepid Economy” The San Francisco Standard, 5/17/22.
• “The Golden State is awash in cash” The Economist, 6/19/21.
• “David Crane: California Man On a Mission” Jewish Journal, 3/11/21.
• “Generous To a Fault” City Journal, 2/8/21.
• “Incoming GASB chair’s lack of state audit experience prompts questions” AccountingToday, 6/30/20.
• “Commentary: California also failed to prepare” CalMatters, 4/1/20.
• “Column: One way to make healthcare more affordable? Give California nurse practitioners autonomy” LA Times, 1/30/20.
• “California Voices: Education leaders speak out on Gov. Newsom’s budget proposals” EdSource, 1/15/20.
• “Prtizker’s Flawed ‘Fair Tax’ Plan Already Failed Californians” Illionois Policy, 11/5/19.
• “California Can Reform K–12 And Medi-Cal, Or Face A Future Of Perpetual Tax Hikes” Hoover Institution, 8/21/19.
• “It’s time for truth in state and local government finances” San Francisco Chronicle, 8/16/19.
• “California’s teachers’ strikes conceal a conflict of generations” The Economist, 2/28/19.
• “Could California pension system be underwater?” CALmatters, 2/3/19.
• “Strike or no strike, pensions problematic for LA schools” AP, 1/12/19.
• “As teachers’ strike looms, L.A. schools aren’t failing us. We’re failing them” Los Angeles Times, 1/9/19.
• “Why Your Pension Is Doomed” The Wall Street Journal, 7/19/18.
• “In the 15th Assembly District, Six Candidates Appear to Have a Shot at the Top Two Spots” East Bay Express, 5/16/18.
• “‘Silver Tsunami’ hits as pension costs devour California school budgets” San Francisco Chronicle, 4/20/18.
• “A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash” The New York Times, 4/14/18.
• “Is the Long-Looming Pension Crisis Already Here?” The New York Times, 3/9/18.
• “Glazer, Baker join for discussion on state pension debt” Pleasanton Weekly, 1/23/18.
• “Pension Reform: The Fiscal Crisis No One Wants to Talk About” Harvard Political Review, 10/26/17.
• “American public pensions suffer from a gaping hole” The Economist, 10/5/17.
• “What should LAUSD do about its ballooning benefits costs?” KPCC, 4/27/17.
• “Climate change is crucial, but so is pension reform” The Sacramento Bee, 9/29/16.
• “News Analysis: Massive State and Local Pension Debt Often Means Higher Taxes” Tax Analysts, 9/20/16.
• “CalPERS math portends grim future for government budgets” The San Diego Union Tribune, 8/11/16.
• “U.S. Pensions Solve New Debt Equation. Answers Vary by Billions” Bloomberg, 4/27/16.
• “Higher Pension Contributions Challenge California Schools” The Bond Buyer, 4/21/16.
• “Pension math: Big returns, bigger bills” The Press Democrat, 4/20/16.
• “New Vergara ruling makes clear it’s Legislature’s job to fix laws protecting bad teachers” The Los Angeles Times, 4/14/16.
• “Dan Walters: State’s hide-the-pea accounting practices” The Sacramento Bee, 1/17/16.
• “Brown calls CalPERS ‘irresponsible’ — is he right?” Sacramento Business Journal, 11/19/15.
• “Palo Alto to consider options for paying off $296 million in unfunded employee pensions” Marin Independent Journal, 9/16/15.
• “States and cities face scrutiny for optimistic investment assumptions as stock market dips, Stanford scholar says” Stanford Report, 9/8/15.
• “Dan Walters: David Crane still an irritant to California unions” The Sacramento Bee, 8/2/15.
• “California’s pension hole: Once modest, now monstrous” The Orange County Register, 7/30/15.
• “The Coalition to Arm California’s Democratic Moderates” The Wall Street Journal, 7/1/15.
• “CalPERS likely to fall short of annual investment goals” LA Times, 6/25/15.
• “American exceptionalism: CalPERS gets tough on managers” Investment & Pensions Europe, 6/11/15.
• “Calpers to Cut Ties With Many Fund Managers to Save on Fees” The New York Times, 6/8/15.
• “California vaccine bill approved by committee on second try” The Sacramento Bee, 4/22/15.
• “Will the ‘real Democrat’ please stand up?” Contra Costa Times, 4/11/15.
• “Chicago’s Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party” Bloomberg, 2/26/15.
• “Miscellaneous public employee perks” The Press Enterprise, 1/21/15.
• “Brown tackling California’s $72B retiree health liability” Yahoo Finance, 1/20/15.
• “Retirement costs take toll on taxpayers, worthy programs” UT San Diego, 1/14/15.
• “California’s soaring healthcare costs bode ill for the budget” LA Times, 1/8/15.
• “Rising retirement costs help drive UC plan to raise tuition” The Sacramento Bee, 11/16/14.
• “California Faces Death by Pension” The American Spectator, 10/29/14.
• “Pensions Seen Squeezing California Local Government” Bond Buyer, 6/12/14.
• “Bailout for teachers’ pensions to cost California school districts” LA Times, 5/20/14.
• “With budget balanced, California should cut into credit card debt” LA Times, 4/27/14.
• “California’s Hidden Pension Disaster” The American Interest, 3/5/14.
• “California Mayors Fight Pension Powers That May Cut Costs” Bloomberg, 3/5/14.
• “No easy fix for California’s teacher pension crisis” Los Angeles Times, 2/20/14.
• “Stanford Symposium Features Innovative Ideas for the Future of U.S. Public Sector Pensions” Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1/31/14.
• “California’s ‘wall of debt’ is only a slice of its liability problem” San Jose Mercury News, 1/26/14.
• “Bark if you don’t like deficits” The Economist, 1/25/14.
• “State of affairs not as rosy as Brown claims” UT San Diego, 1/22/14.
• “Stanford experts urge major reforms in state, local government budgeting” Stanford Report, 1/21/14.
• “Struggling, San Jose Tests a Way to Cut Benefits” The New York Times, 9/23/13.
• “Broken City: Detroit” Time Magazine, 8/5/13.
• “Dan Walters: California Legislature ignoring teacher pension gap” The Sacramento Bee, 4/28/13.
• “Jerry Brown’s California still has much to do” Washington Post, 4/4/13.
• “California’s Prop 30 Gains Could Be Eaten Up By Crisis In Teacher Pension System” Huffington Post, 4/3/13.
• “Will talk of big pensions bring reform?” U-T San Diego, 3/31/13.
• “Gov. Jerry Brown prepares to negotiate with unions that backed him” Los Angeles Times, 2/18/13.
• “The Pension Fund That Ate California” City Journal, 2/13.
• “Back to Black” The Economist, 1/19/13.
• “California’s debt still a heavy cloud over state’s future” Los Angeles Times, 1/13/13.
• “What Happened to Pension Reform in California?” Human Events, 1/7/13.
• “California Republicans Target Top U.S. Public-Worker Pay” Bloomberg Businessweek, 12/20/12.
• “$822,000 Worker Shows California Leads U.S. Pay Giveaway” Bloomberg, 12/10/12.
• “Editorial: Prop. 30′s pension boost” The Orange County Register, 11/28/12.
• “California Shows Voters Tiring of Proposition 13 Legacy” Bloomberg, 11/7/12.
• “California Debt Higher Than Earlier Estimates, a Task Force Reports” The New York Times, 9/20/12.
• “The Subtle Slide into Municipal Bankruptcy” Governing Magazine, 9/17/12.
• “Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to stem pension costs is no panacea” Los Angeles Times, 8/29/12.
• “California Pension Reform: Governor’s Plan Met With Partial Victory” Huffington Post, 8/28/12.
• “California races form strange bedfellows” Wall Street Journal, 8/10/12.
• “Coming to a state near you” Wall Street Journal, 8/4/12.
• “Report of the State Budget Crisis Task Force: Unfortunately, the worst is yet to come” Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, August 2012.
• “Legislature has to deal with pensions” Sacramento Bee, 7/20/12.
• “Wall Street estimate triples public pension debt” Capitol Weekly, 7/9/12.
• “Why we need pension reform” Time Magazine, 6/25/12.
• “Inevitable push to grab AB 32 fees begins” San Diego Union Tribune, 6/14/12.
• “Nonpartisan primaries face test in California” New York Times, 6/3/12.
• “A progressive’s progress” City Journal, 5/30/12.
• “San Jose shows the way out of public pension sinkhole” Bloomberg News, 5/30/12.
• “Special-interest spending floods California races in new political landscape” Sacramento Bee, 5/24/12.
• “Moderates see hope in top-two primary” Sacramento Bee, 5/20/12.
• “Is this California or Greece?” L’Espresso, 5/10/12.
• “Committee formed to back California candidates with ‘courage'” Sacramento Bee, 3/28/12.
• “Jerry Brown’s Big Lie” Wall Street Journal, 3/28/12.
• “A tax increase without reform would be lethal” The Record Searchlight, 3/26/12.
• “Wanted: Dow 31,000” Public Sector Inc, 3/21/12.
• “David Crane’s California Quest” City Journal, Winter 2012.
• “Faculty react to State of the Union address” The Stanford Daily, 1/25/12.
• “The Curious Case of David Crane” NBC Bay Area, 1/8/12.
• “UC regent Crane ousted for telling hard truths” San Francisco Chronicle, 12/29/11.
• “Pension reform crusader David Crane loses his post as University of California regent” Sacramento Bee, 12/27/11.
• “For Arnold Schwarzenegger’s last appointees, time is running out” Los Angeles Times, 12/23/11.
• “Not so retiring” The Economist, 11/12/11.
• “Public service as individuals’ actions” The Stanford Daily, 11/2/11.
• “Big changes are coming to the Capitol” The Sacramento Bee, 10/23/11.
• “The untapped power of the Legislature” Los Angeles Times, 10/10/11.
• “California and Bust” Vanity Fair, November 2011.
• “UC Regent David Crane unlikely to be reinstated” The University of California, San Diego Guardian, 10/2/11.
• “Regent confirmation must look beyond unpopular political beliefs” The University of California, San Diego Guardian, 9/29/11.
• “California group vows to back candidates with ‘courage'” Sacramento Bee, 9/26/11.
• “The promise of voter-approved reforms” San Francisco Chronicle, 9/25/11.
• “An Open Letter from David Crane on the Formation of Govern for California” Press Release, 9/25/11.
• “The outlook at CalPERS is brightening, a little” The Wall Street Journal, 5/19/11.
• “UC Board of Regents debate funding for the UC” The Daily Bruin, 5/19/11.
• “The swiftboating of David Crane?” Sacramento Bee, 5/11/11.
• “Controversy surrounds appointment of UC Regent” The Daily Californian, 4/22/11.
• “In the throes of government” The Stanford Daily, 4/18/11.
• “California High Speed Rail: Financial realities and goodbye Judge Kopp” San Francisco Chronicle, 3/31/11.
• “State Sen. Leland Yee’s attack on the truth” San Francisco Chronicle, 3/8/11.
• “Farewell my lovely: how public pensions killed progressive California” Reason Magazine, March 2011.
• “Pressures build to slash costs of city employees” The Bay Citizen, 2/12/11.
• “Joe Nation, David Crane chat about California’s debt” San Francisco Chronicle, 1/21/11.
• “U.S. Inquiry said to focus on California pension fund” New York Times, 1/7/11.
• “Schwarzenegger appoints pension critic as UC Regent” Sacramento Bee, 12/31/10.
• “Financial markets won’t fix pensions” Public Sector Inc.¸12/6/10.
• “Calif. agency bows to U.S. pressure, picks Central Valley for high-speed rail project launch” New York Times, 12/3/10.
• “Pensions pose major challenges for governments worldwide” PBS News Hour, 10/27/10.
• “A gold-plated burden” The Economist, 10/14/10.
• “Three-trillion dollar hole” The Economist, 10/14/10.
• Testimony at Governmental Accounting Standards Board public hearing: San Francisco, CA, 10/14/10.
• Testimony at Securities and Exchange Commission field hearing: San Francisco, CA, 9/21/10.
• Second session of the Summer Palace Dialogue: Beijing, PRC, 2010.
• “The next crisis: public pension funds” New York Times Magazine, 6/25/10.
• “Sanity in the offing?” The Economist, 6/25/10.
• “Moderates needed” The Economist, 6/3/10.
• “David Crane, rock star” CalWatchdog.com, 5/12/10.
• Testimony at the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee Hearing: Sacramento, CA, 5/10/10.
• “California’s model ‘Newocrat’: David Crane” Huffington Post, 4/15/10.
• “Notable & Quotable: David Crane on California’s public employee pension problem” Wall Street Journal, 4/14/10.
• “CalSTRS funding gap may widen” Calpensions, 3/5/10.
• “You couldn’t make this up” Forbes.com, 2/8/10.
• “The governor’s guide to the private sector” Los Angeles Times, 7/8/07.
• “Can state win its pension gamble?” Los Angeles Times, 8/14/06.
• “Hear-no-evil Senate rejects pension fund dissident” Sacramento Bee, 6/13/06.
• “Donor conflicts reviewed” Sacramento Bee, 6/9/06.
• “CalSTRS nominee rejected” Sacramento Bee, 6/8/06.
• “The Private Side of His Governance” Los Angeles Times, 4/3/06.