California Focus: Newsom survives, but may be weakened
This recall election wasn’t as easy as the final numbers make it seem, and the governor made myriad mistakes.
Thomas Elias
California Focus: Expect a rebellion against housing bills
Senate Bills 9 and 10 are aimed at ending single-family zoning in most parts of California and allowing far more housing density.
California Focus: Voter turnout key to Newsom survival
All it will take for Gavin Newsom to survive is for most people who have voted for him before to vote for him again.
California Focus: COVID numbers show state beats Florida, Texas by a lot
Of the three, California has been by far the healthiest place to live over the last 18 months and Florida the least.
California Focus: Cash bail issue is the key to state’s 2nd-biggest recall
George Gascon, the embattled district attorney of Los Angeles County, is the No. 2 target among California officials.
California Focus: On crime, is recall side barking up wrong tree?
Midyear numbers from some of the most heavily populated parts of California demonstrate there really is no new statewide crime wave.
California Focus: Housing bills could cause radical changes
In 40 or 50 years, most California cities would look very different if these bills passed.
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.
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.
