Veteran media scholar Mark Lisheron uses Garcia's retirement from SJ and hiring in Dallas as a platform to reveal when the "news" media is working a biased angle instead of actually reporting the facts. An Opportunity Now exclusive.
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While the Opportunity Housing debate in San Jose has focused mostly on the impact of zoning on segregated communities, advocates are turning a blind eye to the myriad of other government programs that disenfranchised people of color from wealth creation and home ownership. Richard Rothstein reports in Reason magazine.
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One of the many ways government limits job growth, personal realization, and individual liberty is occupational licensing: requiring people to jump through bureaucratic hoops to cut hair and polish nails. Florida shows the hoops can get taken down, as Mike Riggs reports for Reason magazine.
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San Jose debates how to create an iconic public space and how to design the Google Diridon project. Nate Hochman in National Review has some ideas for what to do, and what not do.
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Many residents were floored over the recent San José Office of Cultural Affairs art exhibit, “Holding the Moment” which included a work many people thought glorified, or at the very least normalized, violence against law enforcement.
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The Housing Department of the City of San Jose recently introduced a new podcast series, "Dwellings," produced by department staff, which claims to present expert opinion on the housing issues facing the city. "Dwellings," however, fails to deliver on its stated purpose. Instead of presenting neutral, or at least balanced, viewpoints on local housing issues, the podcast takes a one-sided, hard-left posture towards housing issues--even on issues about which the council has not given the department direction.
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While local DA's refuse to prosecute lawbreakers, local progressives call for defunding the police, and SJ's Office of Cultural Affairs throws money at art that falsely maligns and incites violence against the police, guess what happens? Murders soar. San Jose's increase of 22% aligns with national trends. NPR reports.
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Just weeks after SJ Mayor Sam Liccardo showed the political will to demand local school districts quit holding students hostage and reopen, the San Jose Unified School District relented and announced reopening plans for next month. But there are still 18 local school districts to go. Liccardo's reopening efforts were part of a new advocacy organization, Solutions San Jose, which is focused on pragmatic, common sense approaches to local issues. Solutions San Jose (edited) email announcing the SJ Unified volte face is below.
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Even after mass public outcry, San Jose's Department of Cultural Affairs continues to fund and promote dubious political art as part of its ongoing Holding the Moment art show (see interview nearby). The propaganda continues in the show's latest installation at the airport, as revealed in an artist comment about his (in our opinion technically strong) Black Lives Matter in San Jose photo. Those comments unmask how unproven, divisive, race-based concepts are central to the artwork's creative intent.
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John Woolfolk at the San Jose Mercury parses data from Burbio and finds that California is at the bottom of U.S. states in terms of school reopening. Concurrently, as sfgate.com points out nearby, more than 95% of local county public schools remain shuttered.
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Despite the fact that the C.D.C., Dr. Fauci, and a broad consensus of doctors and scientists say it can be safe to return to on campus learning, local teachers' unions and school districts are keeping students and parents in an unproductive netherworld of stay-at-home virtual learning. Only Los Gatos Unified and Palo Alto Unified are bucking the trend (elementary schools are open with a hybrid approach). A list of school districts and their reopening status follows, courtesy of SFGate.
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Even the left-wing editorial board of the Southland's biggest newspaper has had enough. They call on teachers' unions to quit holding kids, parents, and school districts hostage, follow the science, and let the schools reopen.
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