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☆ Santa Clara County wants a 5/8-cent sales tax. Will that cover public health losses of $3 billion per year?

“Personal Income Taxes Ver8” by Chris Potter, CC BY 2.0 Santa Clara County’s public health...

Economists agree rent control doesn’t work; California passes sweeping rent control ordinance anyways

Despite a broad consensus among economists and overwhelming evidence that rent control actually makes housing...

Fairfax residents rebuke rent control ordinance’s “outsized impact”

Will Sherman reports on a recent Fairfax City Council public discussion on the possibility of...
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Consensus: Silicon Valley leaders from across political spectrum are thumbs down on Newsom’s redistricting ploy

Image by pixabay.com From Social Democrat Alex Lee in Fremont to GOP candidates for congress...
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☆ If overbearing Silicon Valley gov’t just stepped back a bit …

Image by Ken Teegardin from Boulder, Boulder, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons how much...
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Long Story Short…

FYI, it’s been a big week! Here’s what you need to know this week —...
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A Message from Mayor Matt

Dear Neighbor, Tomorrow, we are starting our biggest clean-up operation since we cleared the Jungle...
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Long Story Short…

Here’s what you need to know this week — in 30 seconds or less: We’re...

Please help me understand where the billions of dollars spent annually to address homelessness actually goes.

An absolutely enormous amount of money is spent every year in Bay Area cities to...
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How local advocates argue for public housing

Red Hook Housing Project, Brooklyn, New York. General view III by itoldya420 As free marketeers,...