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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...

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...

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...

☆ 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...

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...

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...

☆ 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...

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...