Posts in Special Reports
How VTA went off track, how to get it back in gear

VTA's budget woes and dubious expenditures are all the news, but these are just the latest faceplants for one of the worst-performing transit agencies in the U.S. Randal O'Toole of the Thoreau Institute explores the issue in this exclusive analysis for Opportunity Now.

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Special ReportsSimon Gilbert
Everything you need to know about Santa Clara County's housing crisis: the causes, the mistakes, the way out

In his exclusive report for Opportunity Now, Randal O'Toole of the Thoreau Institute explores how New Urbanist thinking and misguided anti-market policies created one of the most unaffordable housing markets in the world--and how to fix it.

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Special ReportsSimon Gilbert
SJPD arrests 176 during Floyd protests; Santa Clara DA prosecutes just 6

DA dismisses almost all protester charges, consistent with the social justice goals of other progressive DAs, including Portland and around the country. Mark Lisheron's exclusive investigation for Opportunity Now.

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