Monday Top of the Scroll: Senate candidates steer clear of California’s biggest environmental issue
Water is the third rail of California politics — and the state’s Senate candidates are carefully steering around it. Water is a perpetual problem in California, with bitter fights over scarce resources even in rainy years. But the leading candidates to fill the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat have made almost no moves to differentiate themselves or highlight their records on one of the state’s most intractable political issues. … None of the top four candidates has a fleshed-out water platform.