The state’s lavish handout regime comes at a cost -- ever increasing taxation that threatens the opportunity and prosperity that once made California attractive. So says former Monte Sereno Mayor Liz Lawler in an Opportunity Now exclusive comment for our ongoing election series: the tax-and-spend tyranny of Sacramento’s supermajority is matched only by voters’ willingness to endorse it.
When it comes to homelessness, cost of living, infrastructure, and expensive legacy transit systems, politicians have been strangely silent. So says former State Assembly candidate Ted Stroll in an Opportunity Now exclusive comment for our series leading up to this year’s election:
Rising data center regulations and overhead make "cost-to-compute" inflate. Are SJ and other cities going too far in their regulation (or moratoria) on data centers? X commenters explore.
Our Susie Murillo takes a look at the debris from this year's campaign material and notes that everyone's infected by social media's Everpresent Now. An Opp Now exclusive.
Palo Alto Daily Post echoes Merc's criticism of transit tax bailout, notes, "we've played this game before."
Johnny Khamis, prez of leading local biz group, aligns with Merc, says transit tax bailout latest in long parade of unaccountable new levies.
Families & Homes, San Jose's leading citywide neighborhood advocacy group, contends that City staff is misreading the plain language of San Jose's Housing Element (state-mandated housing planning for current and future housing) in an effort to deliver an irreversible increase in housing density citywide. F&H's letter to city leaders, below, along with commentary from Pat Waite, Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility.
What does this November’s election say about where California is going? As part of an Opportunity Now exclusive series, we caught up with SVGOP Chairman Dave Johnson, who warns the state is turning further toward “an economic model of failure” based on unsustainable tax increases:
