California FocusOpinionElias: Excess school lands for teacher housing?Thomas D. EliasSeptember 27, 2022September 27, 2022 September 27, 2022September 27, 20220177 Schools propose to help ease their teacher shortage by providing subsidized affordable housing on surplus school property....
California FocusOpinionElias: Secession fever hits state’s biggest countyThomas D. EliasSeptember 14, 2022September 14, 2022 September 14, 2022September 14, 20220161 Some in San Bernardino think they can do better on their own than as part of California, and voters there are getting a chance to...
California FocusOpinionElias: Keep ranked choice voting where it’s workingThomas D. EliasSeptember 7, 2022September 7, 2022 September 7, 2022September 7, 20221286 Ranked choice voting, in use in parts of the state, saves money and lets every voter express their preferences very clearly....
California FocusOpinionElias: Bet on passage for big-time sports gamblingThomas D. EliasAugust 31, 2022August 31, 2022 August 31, 2022August 31, 20220298 If you’re a gambling man or woman, don’t bet the house against either November’s Proposition 26 or Proposition 27....
California FocusOpinionElias: State Democrats see reality — voters not uniformly progressiveThomas D. EliasAugust 17, 2022 August 17, 20220281 Polls, tea leaf readings, constituent complaints and recall petitions at last have liberal Democrats realizing they must listen to voters....
California FocusOpinionElias: Next economic dip nothing like last oneThomas D. EliasAugust 10, 2022August 10, 2022 August 10, 2022August 10, 20220106 As the state heads into what might be a new downturn, California seems well situated to make this a fairly brief decline....
California FocusOpinionElias: Oil, gas costing us more than we thoughtThomas D. EliasAugust 3, 2022August 3, 2022 August 3, 2022August 3, 20220226 A new report indicates the money motorists lose to the cartel-like oil industry is just a fraction of what consumption really costs us....
California FocusOpinionElias: More bait-and-switch on freeway toll lanesThomas D. EliasJuly 27, 2022July 27, 2022 July 27, 2022July 27, 20220425 The movement to make things unequal on California’s urban highways, to favor the rich over the poor, grows steadily....
California FocusCommunity CommentaryOpinionOpinionsElias: Facts don’t matter to California’s densifying DemocratsThomas D. EliasJuly 20, 2022July 21, 2022 July 20, 2022July 21, 20222 482 There appears to be no end to the new laws that legislators want to pass to make California at least as dense as New York...
California FocusOpinionElias: Dangers lurking in fully electronic health recordsThomas D. EliasJuly 13, 2022 July 13, 20220177 State lawmakers almost as an afterthought ordered creation of a unified electronic system for virtually all types of patient information....
California FocusOpinionElias: Will the abortion decision revive Calexit?Thomas D. EliasJune 29, 2022 June 29, 20220487 If anything is ever going to spur this state and perhaps some of its neighbors to go it alone, recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings might....
California FocusOpinionElias: Affordability solution — tax housing speculatorsThomas D. EliasJune 22, 2022 June 22, 20220161 California's housing crisis may be as much a matter of hoarding and waiting for profit as it is of supply....
California FocusOpinionElias: Groundwater law has not stopped subsidenceThomas D. EliasJune 15, 2022 June 15, 20220213 In the San Joaquin Valley, irrigation pipes standing up several feet tall in the middle of fields and orchards once were underground....
California FocusOpinionElias: Year’s key bill limits social media manipulation of kidsThomas D. EliasJune 1, 2022 June 1, 20220237 The most important bill legislators will see this year might be one that forces big electronic firms to stop trying to addict kids for profit....
California FocusOpinionElias: Trump’s anti-democratic census shapes primaryThomas D. EliasMay 25, 2022 May 25, 20220139 The aim all along was to undercount minorities to give more clout to white voters who are more likely to vote Republican....