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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....

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...

Eyes wide shut
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...

☆ 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...

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...