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☆ Marin CO$T’s Mimi Willard: Prop 5 to unleash a “tax tsunami” for local and regional bonds

Image by Wikimedia Commons Proposition 5 will blow a massive hole in Prop 13 and...
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Even Oakland starts to get real re: ameliorating homelessness crisis

Image by Daniel Gies Oakland has long resisted more aggressive techniques to address its crisis...

Sources: San Jose official under investigation for child sexual abuse materials

Councilmember Omar Torres is pictured at a news conference in this file photo. San Jose...
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Case study Sacramento: When sanctioned encampments go wrong—lessons for SJ

Sacramento’s Camp Resolution was supposed to be a national model of managed encampments for the...
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SF Chron is No on Prop 5: says “Frankenstein” initiative would raise taxes, then ban local gov’ts from using proceeds on 96% of CA’s residential land

The more Bay Areans learn about Prop 5, the less they like it. Even the...

Bay Area universities at bottom of 2024 free speech list

Image by Wikimedia Commons The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression flips back this year's...
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Opinion: Prop 47 didn’t help CA’s vulnerable drug addicts; it enabled self-destructive behaviors

Image by PowerthruControl on DeviantArt Tom Wolf, once homeless and struggling with addiction, now advocates...

SJ Spotlight: Irene Smith on Watson Park

  Hello all,   I was recently interviewed by SJ Spotlight regarding the sanctioned supportive...

Analysis: Decarceration orthodoxy shot down by % of violent crimes, recidivism

Mizuno Toshikata: Samurai archer, 1899. Reducing local prison populations isn't a noble aspiration, says Manhattan...

Silicon Valley Reps: SB 1047’s AI regulations will turn off innovation, cause companies to drop out of California

If SB 1047 passes, California could become as unattractive to AI innovators as Europe is,...