While there’s little electoral downside in California to Harris’ strident criticism of Trump, her fiery rhetoric, to say nothing of the F-bombs, might not play as well across middle America if she does decide to run for president someday, said Bill Whalen, a former GOP strategist who is now a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.

The best piece of journalism that you probably didn’t see last week comes courtesy of PolitiFact California, which addressed the question: “Is Jerry Brown ‘diverting’ 30 percent of California’s new gas tax money?”

If Governor Edmund “Pat” Brown’s greatest legacy is the physical and intellectual infrastructure of highways, water systems, and universities that transformed California to a nation-state and a global economic force, his son, Governor Jerry Brown, may be remembered best as the guy who tried to fix it all after decades of neglect.

Good luck trying to get your arms–and your head–around the enormity of California’s economy. Last month, the state’s 2015 gross domestic product (GDP: a measure of goods and services) was calculated at $2.46 trillion. That’s trillions, folks, with nine zeros–as in nine shutout innings from Clayton Kershaw, nine Oscar losses suffered by Peter O’Toole and Harrison Ford, or nine months without rain in an area that not so long ago was mired in a historic drought.