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While Sta Clara County DA Rosen slow-walks local Prop 36 enforcement, Orange County DA speeds ahead

Image by Wikimedia Commons Todd Spitzer, Orange County's District Attorney, takes the will of people...

☆ Opinion: Ranked-choice voting system messily, dangerously overcomplicated

Image by Wikimedia Commons Tomorrow, SCC Supes will consider adopting ranked-choice voting for future elections....
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Elon Musk Warns of America’s $36 Trillion Dollar Debt Bomb

The system is crumbling, protect your wealth or suffer the fallout. Elon Musk has avoided...
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☆ Remembering: Passover in Naglee Park, 1925

Jan Sadeler: Preparation for the Passover, 1585. Image by Wikimedia Commons On the first evening...

(Successful) local strikes tend to be contagious

Image from the Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times, 1936. We revisit a Governing.com analysis of...

Three marks of high-quality, enlightening media

In one of the most poignant scenes from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, retired professor Faber...

Can current homelessness programs really fix the homelessness crisis?

Alejandra Lazo of the Wall Street Journal (June 15, 2019) takes a hard look at...
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☆ Smith and Wolf: Where SJ and SF’s Housing First methodology went wrong (2/4)

Image by County of Los Angeles Bay Area homeless policy advocates Irene Smith and Tom...
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 Why Labor/Left can’t win city- and countywide elections in Silicon Valley

Matt Mahan defeated Labor-backed Cindy Chavez in the SJ 2022 mayoral race--even though he was...

Is California’s two-party system reaching its expiration date?

Tom Campbell, former Bay Area Congressman and State Senator, is chair of the nascent Common...