SF’s Lurie aims to make homelessness nonprofits much more accountable (2/3)

Image by Kevin Wong Countering mounting evidence that nonprofits are grifting the City by the Bay, new mayor Lurie outlines plans to demand that nonprofits receiving taxpayer largesse actually deliver. The Chron reports. At the same time, Lurie wants to revisit San Francisco harm-reduction policies with an eye toward preventing city-funded nonprofits from distributing fentanyl smoking…

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☆ Back in the day, VTA pioneered rideshare service

Image by Pacific Bus Museum During the recent transit worker strike, VTA responded by offering Uber vouchers to riders. Made many on social media wonder: why don’t they do this regularly? Truth is, they did, quite successfully, back in the 1970s. Randall O’Toole remembers, in this Opp Now exclusive. To its credit, VTA’s predecessor agency, the…

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SF’s Lurie shows SJ how to move fast—and big—on homelessness (1/3)

Mayor Daniel Lurie. Image by Wikimedia Commons Instead of quibbling at Council about small-ball homelessness remediations, our neighbor to the north—led by their no-nonsense new mayor—advocates for large-scale, immediate solutions to homelessness. The Chron reports. Mayor Daniel Lurie is launching a one-year effort to reform San Francisco’s homelessness, drug addiction and mental health services as he…

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AI entrepreneur–philosopher on how the free market consolidates individuals’ knowledge into something bigger and better

Red ants working together. Image by Timon Cornelissen Brendan McCord—past research affiliate with Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and successful tech CEO—discusses economist Hayek’s idea that the marketplace elegantly assembles human knowledge to make more efficient, developed, and truthful civilizations. From the University of Austin. Three years ago, I had my second of two kids,…

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The need for speed

D3 has waited too long.  D3 and San Jose representatives continue to pursue go-slow approaches to solving homelessness.  The latest is a misguided idea to needlessly move unsheltered people into the justice system.   Ask yourself, what’s faster: Eighteen months+ or 5 months?  I am the only D3 candidate advocating for immediate implementation of a large-scale shelter plan. The…

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