California Focus OpinionElias: Doubt removed — oil refiners gouging usThomas D. EliasMay 17, 2022 May 17, 2022081 Consumers were taken advantage of by oil companies in a cartel-like manner as every gasoline refiner raised prices at the same moment.
California Focus OpinionElias: Expected anti-abortion ruling could boost stateThomas D. EliasMay 11, 2022 May 11, 2022032 California could be a leading beneficiary if the draft U.S. Supreme Court abortion opinion leaked in early May becomes reality?
California Focus OpinionElias: EDD responsible for single-payer failure?Thomas D. EliasMay 4, 2022 May 4, 2022081 After the unemployment insurance debacle, why should Californians want to entrust massive sums of money to the state for distribution?
California Focus OpinionElias: Is state’s big housing crunch mostly fiction?Thomas D. EliasApril 27, 2022 April 27, 20221330 Leading officials continually spout unsubstantiated, possibly phony, estimates of housing need in the state.
California Focus OpinionElias: Cities fight to maintain distinctive charactersThomas D. EliasApril 20, 2022 April 20, 2022087 Thanks to Senate Bills 9 and 10, it’s open season on the character of every city in the state of California.
California Focus OpinionElias: Pro-corporate bias in key mental health rulingThomas D. EliasApril 13, 2022 April 13, 2022085 Until now, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal court that often gets to oversee California laws, appeared somewhat independent.
California Focus OpinionElias: Why utility fines mean so littleThomas D. EliasApril 6, 2022 April 6, 2022064 The utilities know they’ll get the money back, and then some, the next time the Public Utilities Commission considers a rate increase.
California Focus OpinionElias: Will UC forfeit tax status, impartiality?Thomas D. EliasMarch 30, 2022 March 30, 2022071 The faculty is putting at risk the institution’s longstanding impeccable credentials as an impartial source of reliable information.
California Focus OpinionElias: Gas gouge deja vu — Don’t blame the warThomas D. EliasMarch 23, 2022 March 23, 2022176 This is the 10th time in the last 12 years that gasoline prices have risen suddenly and far more than external circumstances can justify.
California Focus OpinionElias: NIMBYs get a bad rapThomas D. EliasMarch 17, 2022March 17, 2022 March 17, 2022March 17, 20221304 Rarely has a group suffered a less deserved rash of insults than homeowners who may favor developments, but “not in my backyard.”