Capitol grinds up major housing bill

Even under optimal circumstances, California is extraordinarily difficult to govern — more like a fractious nation than a culturally homogenous state.
Our size and our staggering economic, cultural, ethnic, even geographic and meteorological diversity not only create complex issues, but make the reconciliation of often bitterly disparate factions difficult, bordering on impossible.
Any legislation faces a series of procedural hurdles, all of which must be cleared for any proposal to be ena