Across California, a coalition of small founders, nurses, teachers, immigrant business owners, and public-safety leaders is forming, united less by ideology than by a desire for government that simply works. A measure on November’s ballot, a one-time tax on the state’s wealthiest residents, may offer an opportunity for that coalition to build a sustainable movement.
On paper, California has some of the most aggressive pro-housing laws in the country. In practice, the homes they legalized are barely being built — and the number of permits keep falling.
California won't enforce basic public order in its encampments. Working-class neighborhoods are paying for that choice in fire, smoke, and lost property, while wealthier ones are zoned out of the crisis entirely.
A San Francisco judge just suspended the sentence of the man who killed an 84-year-old Asian grandfather in cold blood. This is the state of "justice" in the city.
A city audit found a third of LA's affordable housing out of compliance, health hazards going uncited, and no financial watch on a $2.9 billion loan portfolio. The failures built up over years and across administrations, but cleaning them up is the job Mayor Bass called "urgent."
Supervisor Bilal Mahmood wants to create a publicly backed fund to lure grocers back to neighborhoods they abandoned, without fixing the retail theft, permitting costs, or labor mandates that drove them away.
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California is bleeding nearly a million K-12 students by 2031 as families flee unaffordable housing — but the state's...
San Francisco voters crushed Prop D's 'Overpaid CEO Tax' in June, but the same wealth-tax logic resurfaced on Novembe...
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California's own agencies have documented $20 billion in EDD fraud, $21 billion in unpaid federal loans, 75% of audit...
Across California, a coalition of small founders, nurses, teachers, immigrant business owners, and public-safety leaders is forming, united less by ideology than by a desire for government that simply works. A measure on November’s ballot, a one-time tax on the state’s wealthiest residents, may offer an opportunity for that coalition to build a sustainable movement.
On paper, California has some of the most aggressive pro-housing laws in the country. In practice, the homes they legalized are barely being built — and the number of permits keep falling.
California won't enforce basic public order in its encampments. Working-class neighborhoods are paying for that choice in fire, smoke, and lost property, while wealthier ones are zoned out of the crisis entirely.
A San Francisco judge just suspended the sentence of the man who killed an 84-year-old Asian grandfather in cold blood. This is the state of "justice" in the city.
A city audit found a third of LA's affordable housing out of compliance, health hazards going uncited, and no financial watch on a $2.9 billion loan portfolio. The failures built up over years and across administrations, but cleaning them up is the job Mayor Bass called "urgent."
California law bans sobriety requirements in state-funded homeless housing, SF's largest housing nonprofit runs progr...
California is bleeding nearly a million K-12 students by 2031 as families flee unaffordable housing — but the state's...
San Francisco voters crushed Prop D's 'Overpaid CEO Tax' in June, but the same wealth-tax logic resurfaced on Novembe...
Across 2026, California lawmakers killed lobbying transparency bills, advanced legislation letting immigration nonpro...
California's own agencies have documented $20 billion in EDD fraud, $21 billion in unpaid federal loans, 75% of audit...
TL;DR: SF Supervisor Bilal Mahmood wants to create a city-funded grocery subsidy program inspired by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The problem: SF drove its grocery stores out through retail theft, permitting costs, and labor mandates, and this package fixes none of that. SF’s answer to a grocery desert of its own making is to pay to get the stores back.
