Elias: Pricey coastal real estate? Look inland
Not many places could take a 5% drop in their median home price and still remain the most expensive ZIP code in America for real...
California Focus
Elias: Money one factor in the making of the next veep
An old saying tells us “no one votes for the vice president in a presidential election, just for the president.” But the quick ascension of...
Elias: State seesaws back to tough on crime
Crime has been a seesaw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for a while recently. But now...
GOP missing so far in governor’s race
It’s easy to criticize the field now running for California governor, an office now occupied by perhaps the ultimate lame duck — Gavin Newsom. One...
Elias: Blame for housing prices misplaced
No one who has looked at multiple listings of homes for sale anywhere in this country can doubt there’s a price crisis. That’s especially true...
Elias: The strong faculty link to pro-Hamas demonstrations
More than 80% of Americans favor Israel over the Palestinian Hamas terror group in their ongoing conflict. Among college-age Americans, more than 57% favor Israel....
Elias: Confusion, contradiction on gas price gouging
At every level of government, there are times when it seems the left hand has no clue what the right hand is doing. Nov. 8...
Elias: Solano County plan could have changed how California develops
A measure allowing voters in Solano County this fall to approve — or not — a vast new development about 45 miles northeast of San Francisco...
Lara, Newsom appear bent on enriching insurance companies
From the way they’re acting, it’s clear Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara believe they have no choice other than caving in...
Elias: Lower the sails on wind power?
There weren’t many causes Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed harder during the just-concluded state legislative session than offshore wind power, something that has been tried in...
Elias: Anti-crime feud mostly avoidable
This fall’s campaign over the anti-crime Proposition 36 now promises to be one of the more expensive and unnecessary ballot measure campaigns California has seen,...
Elias: State consumers dunned again
For the umpteenth time in the last 60 years, California electric consumers are again being dunned. As usual, the stated reason is they must pay...
Elias: Blurring the citizenship lines
The lines between American citizens and noncitizen immigrants who live here, legally or not, may become even more blurred this fall than they are today....
Will California be Dems’ king- or queen-maker?
President Joe Biden’s bowing to overwhelming pressure from within his own Democratic Party and backing Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him as president puts...
Elias: Deception a new part of insurance crisis
Blackmail has been the rule for the last year as insurance companies terrified California’s insurance commissioner into giving them their way on almost everything they...