Archive for November 2025
On Measure A, Mahan forgets Biz 101
October 4, 2025 SJ’s “pragmatic progressive” mayor lines up behind the county’s fiscally irresponsible, strategically flawed, and economically illiterate Measure A. Opp Now unpacks the measure’s three big business no-no’s in this exclusive. Matt Mahan should know better. Santa Clara County’s rushed purchase of multiple troubled hospitals was always an unsustainable and a wrong-headed expansion of…
Read MoreHow to help: Where the hungry can find food — and others can give — as SNAP benefits cut off
SNAP benefits are set to run out of funding Nov. 1, impacting more than half a million Bay Area residents SNAP benefits are set to run out of funding Nov. 1, impacting more than half a million Bay Area residents With funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program running out Nov. 1 due to the ongoing…
Read MoreMahan, Ellenberg ally with local hard-left socialist party on taxes
Unknown artist. No known copyright restrictions., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons SJ Mayor Mahan says he wants to “govern from the middle.” That middle appears to be rapidly tilting left. He’s a fellow traveler with the Silicon Valley Democratic Socialist Party on Measure A. The DSA’s reasons for supporting A, excerpted below, make for interesting…
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