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Blue tarps and debris in a wooded area.

No more excuses #1: SCOTUS clears the way for CA cities like SJ to manage inhumane and dangerous homeless encampments

Rejecting the argument that preventing homeless from appropriating public parks and spaces violated the 8th...
White high-speed train on tracks in China.

Slow progress for a fast train. Musk and the Internet mock CA rail authority’s “$36.96 billion per mile” overpass to nowhere

Image by 10 10 on Flickr In fairness, it only took nine years to complete...
Financial chart with lines and data.

Sticker shock: Californians pay more for power than anyone else in the continental US

It’s too bad bank accounts don’t come with surge protectors. After a yearly $400 rate...
Protesters holding signs against a bond.

☆ No on Regional Housing Tax group makes case at BAHFA meeting

To nobody’s surprise, the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, an outgrowth of the Metropolitan Transportation...
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Even State o’ CA puts the brakes on affordable housing boondoggles

Image by World Bank Photo Collection Following Gov. Newsom's blistering critiques of housing and homelessness...
Cartoon comparing good and bad governance.

Not to be outdone, Oakland belatedly enters the Bad Bay Area gov’t sweepstakes

The list lengthens. To review: SJ Housing Dept. VTA board. Sta Clara City Council. SJ...
BART train upside down on tracks.

☆ VTA’s ri$ky plan: Extend BART while starving it

Image by Wikimedia Commons VTA helped thwart a state legislative initiative to bail out BART...
Roommate wanted sign in front of house.

The roommate solution: direct cash payments could solve half of Silicon Valley’s homeless crisis

Turns out that many unhoused in the streets of cities like San José don’t need...
Get out of jail free card

Sacto tries to undermine a ballot initiative that would reform the disastrous Get Out of Jail Free Prop. 47

Image by Seth Anderson The California legislature is trying to sabotage another initiative that would...
A ship attacked by a giant squid.

☆ Analysis: Measure E vote breaks Housing First stranglehold on City budget

At long last, on 6.11, San Jose City Council reallocated Measure E tax funds to...