Archive for December 2025
Gavin Newsom’s worst nightmare is right here.
Who’s actually fighting for conservatives?
My end-of-year message for you.
Dear John, I wrote you a memo about the incredible progress we’ve made and what comes next for our exciting campaign. CLICK HERE: It’s a short but vital read. I really need you to take a look at this when you get the chance.Can you please give it a read? Thanks for giving your attention…
Read More☆ Taxpayer advocates: Measure A is a regressive tax on Santa Clara County’s poorest
Special Reports October 1, 2025 “Money With Wallet” by Chris Potter, CC BY 2.0 HJTA’s Susan Shelley questions why Santa Clara County would raise sales taxes on struggling residents. If the issue is a 4–5% Medi-Cal shortfall, SCC GOP Chair Dave Johnson asks, is that really an “emergency”? He notes supervisors had no problem doubling…
Read MoreMulcahy flubs Econ 101 in his defense of flawed Measure A tax
December 15, 2025 Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA. Image by Cristiano Tomás, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons SJ CM Michael Mulcahy only spent less than two minutes endorsing Measure A sales tax increase (ostensibly to bail out the county’s bankrupt hospitals). But in that brief time, he diminished his pro-business credentials…
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A Message from Mayor Matt -11/23/25
Long Story Short… Here’s what you need to know this week — in 30 seconds or less: Keep scrolling for all the data and details. Dear Neighbor, Hope fuels action. It’s won presidential campaigns, it’s ended wars, it’s powered scientific breakthroughs. The absence of hope breeds stagnation. Because the moment we lose faith in progress,…
Read MoreWhy Drag Racing Tires Wrinkle at Launch
Nat’l homelessness count way up; Why Housing First is to blame
January 14, 2025 Image by Jon Evans New research reveals that homelessness across the U.S. is up more than 10%, despite billions (mis)spent on addressing the crisis. Robert Marbut, former U.S. homelessness czar, says that the country’s Housing First policies—which effectively redirected monies away from treatment and towards expensive new housing—has exacerbated unprecedented levels of…
Read MorePermanent Supportive Housing fails on most measures, research finds
August 18, 2022 Local nonprofit spokespeople recently took to the op-ed pages of local media to buttress SJ’s widely criticized Housing First and Permanent Supportive Housing strategies. Their rickety defense neglects crucial details on how barrier-free permanent housing is ineffective, costly, and wrongly targeted. Various expert sources below analyze PSH’s inadequacies to assist local communities. To receive daily updates of…
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