California Focus OpinionElias: Will the abortion decision revive Calexit?Thomas D. EliasJune 29, 2022 June 29, 20220117 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 Focus OpinionElias: Affordability solution — tax housing speculatorsThomas D. EliasJune 22, 2022 June 22, 2022056 California's housing crisis may be as much a matter of hoarding and waiting for profit as it is of supply.
California Focus OpinionElias: Groundwater law has not stopped subsidenceThomas D. EliasJune 15, 2022 June 15, 2022049 In the San Joaquin Valley, irrigation pipes standing up several feet tall in the middle of fields and orchards once were underground.
California Focus OpinionElias: Year’s key bill limits social media manipulation of kidsThomas D. EliasJune 1, 2022 June 1, 2022053 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 Focus OpinionElias: Trump’s anti-democratic census shapes primaryThomas D. EliasMay 25, 2022 May 25, 2022059 The aim all along was to undercount minorities to give more clout to white voters who are more likely to vote Republican.
California Focus OpinionElias: Doubt removed — oil refiners gouging usThomas D. EliasMay 17, 2022 May 17, 20220179 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, 2022058 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, 20220122 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, 20221364 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, 20220115 Thanks to Senate Bills 9 and 10, it’s open season on the character of every city in the state of California.