Posts by Take Back San Jose

Image by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free.org It’s small consolation, but WalletHub ranks Oakland and SF even worse than the purported Capital of Silicon Valley. SF came in last, and all Bay Area cities are in the bottom fifth. The ranking is based on comparing the quality of the services residents receive against the…

Bypass road sign (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) The Trump administration has found an innovative way to neutralize California’s sanctuary policies, forcing local officials to hand over illegal migrants for deportation despite state and local sanctuary laws and policies that bar them from doing so. Washington Post reports. California law enforcement officials can refuse to cooperate…

Residential buildings on the campus of Haven for Hope in San Antonio, Texas on May 10, 2023. Photo by Jordan Vonderhaar for CalMatters. ince opening its doors in 2010, San Antonio’s all-inclusive Haven for Hope homeless shelter has provided resources (counseling, childcare, etc.) to help folks get back on their feet. Despite overwhelming success, Haven…

John Calhoun (VP USA 1825–32) believed states had the right to nullify federal law. Image by Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Recent local disturbances around immigration enforcement raise the key constitutional question: How far can other governmental entities go when they oppose a federal law? Cato Institute explores. Activists on the left…

Image from Pickpik.com Academic achievement is down. Enrollment, down. But K-12 schools in the Bay—and beyond—keep pandering for increased state/fed funding (by 32% since 2018!) and for taxpayers to sign off on yet another tax. Um, isn’t gluttony supposed to be a sin? Public Policy Institute of CA gives the data. Increased state spending and…

J’s surging crime wave was a cogent focal point of Mahan’s mayoral campaign. And many point to restrictive legislation as the culprit: under which even well-intentioned law enforcement must treat certain felonies as misdemeanors, release violent perpetrators without bail, and empty SCC jails as a reckless social statement. An email from Reform California breaks down…

The Housing Department of the City of San Jose recently introduced a new podcast series, “Dwellings,” produced by department staff, which claims to present expert opinion on the housing issues facing the city. “Dwellings,” however, fails to deliver on its stated purpose. Instead of presenting neutral, or at least balanced, viewpoints on local housing issues,…

hien Ho, district attorney of CA’s capital city since November, has pledged to sue Sacramento city leaders unless they pick up the pace on clearing illegal encampments and citing homeless people who refuse shelter. Some label his proposal as unkind, but Ho claims (along with folks like SCC’s Johnny Khamis) it’s all about keeping our…

Image by Hildgrim Santa Cruz County finds homeless encampment ground zero for stolen e-bikes. Santa Cruz Sentinel and KSBW report. Santa Cruz Sentinel: More than $30,000 worth of high-end electric bicycles were discovered by law enforcement this week at an illegal encampment near Arana Gulch in Live Oak. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office is…

A collection of SJ’s far-left advocacy groups protested outside the family home of Mayor Mahan last weekend—complaining about the Mayor’s homelessness programs. The groups’ promotional flyer included violent imagery (crossing out Mahan’s eyes—invoking a comic book convention to indicate someone’s dead), and a parade of misinformed howlers that we fact check, below. An Opp Now…