Yesterday’s split City Council vote (6-4 opposing the 2/3-voter requirement for new local taxes in Prop 43) shows that more and more SJ city councilmembers are uncomfortable coercing their over-taxed constituents to sign up for even more new levies. CM George Casey: City should back off making so many endorsements “There is an important difference…

To the Democrats and Independents who still believe in the promise of California: The Sacramento machine has made this state unlivable—the highest gas, housing, and electricity prices in the nation. I came to this state because I believed in the ladder of opportunity for working people. That’s not what California is today. This isn’t about…

Dear Neighbor, Housing is a complicated, nuanced and deeply personal issue for so many of us. Whether you can’t afford it or you can’t imagine how your neighborhood might change if we had more of it. In recent weeks housing has been the main topic of conversation at City Hall, and many of you have…

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…

The Social and Individual Effects of Homeless Shelter: Evidence from Temporary Shelter Provision What does homeless shelter achieve? We leverage administrative records of homeless services in Los Angeles County to construct a novel dataset of daily, site-level counts of shelter beds and occupants from 2014 to 2019. We pair this with daily, block-level crime incident…

Sponsored Message Patriot, This is not a comfortable message to send.  I wasn’t sure if it was the right time, place, or manner to speak on this issue. But time is NOT on our side right now. Just 24 hours before he was brutally murdered, Charlie Kirk issued what many are now calling his final…

It’s happening. Election Day is almost here and Turning Point PAC is surging ballot-chasers across eight states simultaneously These are some of the districts that will decide who controls Congress. And our people are on the ground in all of them — right now, today — knocking doors, building relationships, and banking early votes before…

California Noir: The Plot to Rob the Federal Reserve Drowning in Debt and Desperate: California’s Hail Mary to Capture the White House in 2028 By: Verbica for Congress SAN JOSE, Calif. – Aug. 2, 2026 – PRLog — Money doesn’t lie. It just changes outfits before the dance. Where is our hard-boiled Bogart when we need him—to drag racketeers and…

Transit stops are not just places for riders to get on and off the bus or train. By Paul Zykofsky, AICP Director, Center for Livable CommunitiesPublished: Transit California; December 1998/January 1999 Transit stops are not just places for riders to get on and off the bus or train. In recent years communities all across the nation…

New state law paves way for 30-unit townhome development in Atherton Glenwood Avenue project taps SB79, which allows multifamily housing near transit stops AlphaX RE Capital submitted a preliminary application for a 30-unit townhome development at 110 Glenwood Ave. in Atherton, near Nativity School. Renderings show what one of the five-unit buildings may look like.…