California Focus: Will city, county leaders become housing realists?
Bureaucrats aren't yet recognizing that the solution to the state’s housing crisis has been at hand from the moment the pandemic struck.
Thomas D. Elias
California Focus: Newsom gets his way; will it work?
His most recent “victory” was in dissuading every other substantial Democrat in California from running in the Sept. 14 recall election.
California Focus: Rooftop solar lives on, but battle not over yet
A bill that could have killed rooftop solar installation in California is now itself dead, but the issue that sparked it lives on.
California Focus: Will voters’ decision on cash bail be defied?
Cash bail may play a reduced role in the criminal justice systems of the state’s two biggest urban centers despite a decisive vote.
California Focus: This might be the goofiest state-split idea yet
It’s no secret that plenty of folks in California’s rural northern counties would love to leave the Golden State and form one of their own
California Focus: At last, Newsom attacks a cause of homelessness
The state government is about to throw significant money at mental health.
California Focus: Low-cost housing? The state keeps ignoring new realities
The solution has been obvious since the beginning of the pandemic, when thousands of businesses sent their workers home to do their jobs.
California Focus: This bill could kill rooftop solar
If politicians wanted to kill rooftop solar energy production in California, they could not find a better vehicle than a proposed new law known as
California Focus: Is permanent housing the real homeless solution?
Many don’t want the kind of permanent units that are becoming more available as governments devote ever more money to the issue.
California Focus: New recall has similarities to Davis dismissal in 2003
The list of candidates to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom will surely be interesting, but perhaps not as odd as in 2003.
