Elias: Will the abortion decision revive Calexit?
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.
Thomas Elias
Elias: Affordability solution — tax housing speculators
California's housing crisis may be as much a matter of hoarding and waiting for profit as it is of supply.
Elias: Groundwater law has not stopped subsidence
In the San Joaquin Valley, irrigation pipes standing up several feet tall in the middle of fields and orchards once were underground.
Elias: Year’s key bill limits social media manipulation of kids
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.
Elias: Trump’s anti-democratic census shapes primary
The aim all along was to undercount minorities to give more clout to white voters who are more likely to vote Republican.
Elias: Doubt removed — oil refiners gouging us
Consumers were taken advantage of by oil companies in a cartel-like manner as every gasoline refiner raised prices at the same moment.
Elias: Expected anti-abortion ruling could boost state
California could be a leading beneficiary if the draft U.S. Supreme Court abortion opinion leaked in early May becomes reality?
Elias: EDD responsible for single-payer failure?
After the unemployment insurance debacle, why should Californians want to entrust massive sums of money to the state for distribution?
Elias: Is state’s big housing crunch mostly fiction?
Leading officials continually spout unsubstantiated, possibly phony, estimates of housing need in the state.
Elias: Cities fight to maintain distinctive characters
Thanks to Senate Bills 9 and 10, it’s open season on the character of every city in the state of California.
