California’s mental health Prop. 1 may help fix homelessness
Much is made continually of this state’s poverty rate, now running above 13%. Most polls show voters rank homelessness as even more of an issue, though, with about 70% in …
California politics
California’s groundwater must become a priority in Sacramento
California has had drought years and wet years, several “years of the woman” and the last few years may well have been called “years of housing increases,” at least in …
California’s increased housing units haven’t meant lower rents
California’s top officials and the bureaucrats who back them up persist in telling us there’s a massive housing shortage in this state, amounting to something between 1.8 million and 3 …
Transgender students California’s latest state-local conflict
For the last several years, the dominant sentiment among Gov. Gavin Newsom and other top state officials and legislators has been that one size fits all of California when it …
California towns’ battle for local control still being fought
Increasingly, city governments are becoming the last resort for resisting policies adopted by elected state officials and appointed functionaries who assume authority normally reserved for votes of the people. The …
California should try same test on homelessness as addiction
“The business of America is business,” President Calvin Coolidge famously observed in 1925. Plenty of other American cliches support his view: “Money talks, and (other stuff) walks,” goes one. “Show …
California’s denser housing ‘solutions’ are failing badly
Rarely has California seen so concerted and unified a campaign by its elected officials as the drive for housing density conducted by Gov. Gavin Newsom and allied state legislators over …
Science only seems to justify Newsom’s policies when convenient
Gov. Gavin Newsom is a big advocate of science — the concept, not the magazine. He’s often said science was behind his many controversial moves to counter COVID-19, and he’s …
California housing policy based on state’s bad forecasting
Two things you can count on with ballyhooed state forecasts on issues such as California’s housing and population are that they’ll be incompetent and inconsistent. Usually, they’ll also be outdated …
For California police, less heat on the heat for the moment
Things were looking negative for individual police officers and police forces in California earlier this year. Job vacancies had piled up, state Attorney General Rob Bonta seemed to launch constant …