D1 supervisor candidate Rebecca Munson says Measure A won't fix gaping shortfall created by county hospitals' systemic overspending. The banking pro outlines a fiscal discipline approach to increase efficiencies and realize a saner county budget.
While the SJ Mayor offers a state-level plan to “spend better”, he currently sits on the board of the VTA, an “extremely costly” and structurally defective transit agency. So says past state Assembly candidate Ted Stroll, who wants voters to elect VTA board members directly. An Opportunity Now exclusive reaction.
Sacramento’s supermajority won’t now all of a sudden “start getting behind accountability and transparency,” says Gus Mattammal, candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction. While he lauds Mahan’s back-to-basics plan for its specificity, he wonders how much is possible if the Mayor couldn’t even get accountability measures through the SJ City Council. An Opportunity Now exclusive reaction.
On the heels of reports that the murder rate in SJ is up 75% compared to this time last year , the streets of SJ are also proving to be increasingly unsafe. The Merc reports.
Mayor Mahan is right about one thing: Californians shouldn’t be asked to pay more until the government does better. But his spending proposal amounts to managerial reform, not structural reform, according to Peter Verbica, Candidate for U.S. Congress, CA-19. An Opportunity Now exclusive reaction.
“Californians simply do not like race discrimination,” says Daniel Morenoff in a letter to CA Assemblymembers. But this year’s ACA 7 is yet another attempt to degrade Prop 209’s Nondiscrimination Amendment. CA voters will again reject the “racists,” writes the American Civil Rights Project Executive Director: even if they don’t, ACA 7’s discriminatory provisions are banned by the U.S. Constitution.
City officials curiously suggested recently that it's "subjective" to review what areas of activity the city should be paying for--and what the county should be paying for--because (officials claim) SJ's city charter doesn't "catalog" departments. SPUR and SJ's charter itself suggest otherwise.
Gov candidate Matt Mahan’s state spending plan champions dashboard accountability, but that won’t fix the cost of living, says Mike ter Maat, Editor of Broken. As long as politicians do what they are “built to do” which is “spend,” Californians’ real problem isn’t how well the state counts their money, but rather how much the state takes in the first place. An Opportunity Now exclusive reaction.
Local homeowners trapped by crushing debt service, low mobility, and ongoing costs, while tenants have to pay half their income to meet monthly rents. Yes, it does feel like a feudal environment, according to Grok.
