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bridge+under+construction

On that Labor/Business divide: the statewide edition

Image by Wikimedia Commons California labor groups have their list of priority bills and the...
apocalypse

The Last Days of Housing First?

Albert Goodwin: Apocalypse. Image by Wikimedia Commons Regular readers of Opp Now have noticed that...
money+briefcase

☆ Bay Area profs nominate smart, instructive, playful economics books you can bank on (part 2)

Image in Public Domain For this installment, Opp Now visited the office hours of three...
crime+justice

“Police are powerless”: Prop 47 revisited, critiqued by CA law enforcement analyst

Image by DPP Law Mark Powell posits in Times of San Diego that Prop 47,...
moneyball

How modern economic debate completely misses the role of surprise and creativity

Image from Moneyball (2011) Modern progressives misunderstand what makes capitalism work, entrapped as they are in...
homeless+16

L.A./Austin case study: Clearing street encampments reduces violent crimes, homeless deaths

Critics like SJ's Assemblymember Ash Kalra claim Newsom's CARE Court initiative and local encampment restrictions...
court+of+death

Do locals actually want to kill property transfer protections?

Rembrandt Peale: The Court of Death. Image by Wikimedia Commons Taxpayer advocate Susan Shelley shines...
A row of benches and trees in a park.

Opinion: How San Bernardino navigated Martin v. Boise to make parks safer, cleaner

Image by Jeffery Scism Ninth circuit ruling Martin v. Boise only allows cities to remove...
old+apartment+building

☆ Khamis: Why won’t cities solve housing crises by buying on the cheap (instead of building extravagantly)?

Image by Randy von Liski Everybody knows that building new housing to solve local affordability...
MIT

MIT case study: How systemic institutional antisemitism chases away talent

Image by Roger W Cal and Stanford aren't the only prestigious colleges driving off folks...