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Could Santa Clara County drive efficiency by repurposing the Fairgrounds?

In 2020, concerned citizen David Yborra sent the following email (abbreviated) to two then-SCC Supervisors....
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Case study Colorado: “Free” transit only highlights systemic transportation inequities

Image by Wikimedia Commons For those who do the math, "free" transit days only serve...
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Image by Wikimedia Commons Homelessness hits record highs nationally, but feds refuse to acknowledge the...

Immigration contributes substantially to boost in homeless numbers

Dorothea Lange, photographer. Migrant Mother, 1935. The influx of migrants to states like CA played...

Update: CA Community Colleges backs down on forcing faculty DEI alignment

Even when condemned to death, free speech bastion—and teacher—Socrates refused to relinquish his ideas. (Jacques-Louis...
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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...

It’s past time for large-scale community shelters to address D3’s homelessness crisis

Homelessness is not receding in our district, our city, our county, or state. Many people...
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Opinion: Cities are under no requirement to help out ICE

Sheet music and lyrics to Woody Guthrie song, Deportees (1948). Recent immigration enforcement activity in...

☆ Remembering: Christmas in Naglee Park, 1924

Image by Wikimedia Commons Historian April Halberstadt whisks us back to Christmas a century ago...

☆ Libertarian VP candidate Mike ter Maat: Although tax leery, Californians still split the ballot to borrow billions more (2/2)

The fed’s unsustainable financial house may not yet be affecting Californian voters as they decide...