Posts by Take Back San Jose

by Josue Torres (NewsBreak) Photo by Jose Rago on Unsplash In a new move impacting tens of thousands of Californians, a prominent insurance provider associated with Farmers Insurance Group, the second-largest property and casualty insurer in California, has decided to relinquish its Certificate of Authority. This decision, as seen in a recent filing with the California Department of Insurance,…

Georgia O’Keeffe: Sun Water Maine, 1922. Like SJ’s system that reroutes street water into the SF Bay, LA’s urban runoff heads straight to its county beaches. Currently, many of these beaches are warning residents to avoid the water at all costs, due to high fecal-indicator bacteria (FIB). City Journal connects LA’s surging FIB numbers and…

Carlo Bossoli: Ruins of a Large Genoese Fortress at Sudak, 1856. Image in Public Domain In a hard-hitting Free Press piece, Neighbors Together Oakland’s founder Seneca Scott observes that the Left assumes wealth/race divide people’s perspectives on criminal justice, with only affluent white folks wanting fortified police forces. Instead, says Scott, minority residents in poorer…

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Houses in a Park, c. 1911. Image in Public Domain For local jurisdictions to reach their Housing Elements’ lofty targets for new affordable housing units, private investors must perceive reduced risk and a higher potential for payoff, says SF real estate firm director K. Cyrus Sanandaji. Sanandaji proposes in the SF Business Times…

Théodore Chassériau: Spectre de Banquo, 1855. Image in Public Domain The Legislature and Gov. Newsom’s panicked attempt to disqualify the Taxpayer Protection Act from 2024’s ballot only adds to Big Gov’t’s pattern of stifling democratic rights/processes, says the OC Register’s Jon Coupal. He goes on to argue that eliminating Prop 13 protections—which ensure that approving…