This election cycle, a flurry of articles have come out to accuse right-wingers of “infiltrat[ing]” and “target[ing] school board races across [the] Bay Area.” How does the Left profit by aggressively imposing party distinctions on elections? Verlan Lewis explains in Party Politics that the strict Left vs. Right scale paradigm — called the Static Spectrum Fallacy (SSF) — is an illogical, intentionally divisive manner of demarcating ideologies.
Read MoreEdward Ring of the California Policy Center takes to the Epoch Times to examine how progressive environmentalism has destroyed our woodlands. Relegating true concerns as secondary to politically motivated “special interests,” local leaders’ decisions to block important projects have effected overcrowded and dying forests — leading to superfires.
Read MoreProfessional city planner Nolan Gray purports that zoning codes — laws through which gov’t planners dictate what can/must be built where, and to what extent — have led only to sprawling, unequal, and exorbitantly pricey living areas. Gray advocates for abolishing zoning codes in favor of privately managed regulations like deed restrictions. This interview originally appeared in City Journal’s 10 Blocks podcast.
Read MoreNationally-recognized linguist and political commentator Dr. Alan Perlman daylights the intellectual emptiness of local lefty's claims that their opponents' language has hidden meanings—which, of course, only they can understand.
Read MoreAfter a rushed and strange, secretive process, the county announced that James Williams will be replacing retiring CEO Jeff Smith with James Williams, the county’s attorney. Supervisor Candidate Johnny Khamis notes that the process seemed hasty and flawed, but offers some advice for CEO-appointee Williams. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreZócalo Public Square columnist Joe Mathews argues in the Merc that the recent LA Council racism scandal indicates our “thoroughly broken system” of small, powerless, unrepresentative city councils. His proposed solution? Get rid of the council in favor of a larger, lottery-selected Citizens’ Assembly. Mathews’ coverage below.
Read MoreCampbell Union High School District board candidates Elisabeth Halliday and James Kim turn their attention to student performance within the CUHSD. Both unpack their plans to sustain increased academic achievement stats in the district, especially for students facing “opportunity gap[s].” Other CUHSD candidates have not yet replied. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreUC Berkeley energy professor James Rector, senior “Clean Transportation” engineer David Reichmuth, and energy consultant Ronald Stein analyze California’s Proposition 30 and its promises to boost zero-emission vehicle infrastructure. Their varied takes on the initiative below. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreNine UC Berkeley student organizations’ openly anti-Zionist bylaw revisions have aroused attention across the Golden State. David Bernstein, author of “Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews,” dives into the Left’s “corrosive” antisemitic ideology on the Med Israel for fred (MIFF) YouTube channel.
Read MoreClocking in at 78 words, California’s proposed constitutional amendment has more than perplexed locals and advocacy orgs. Opp Now has led journalistic efforts to investigate what Prop 1 means for late-term abortion legislation. In this installment, local constitutional lawyers/orgs parse Prop 1’s implications for pregnancy resource centers (PRCs). An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreRanked #9 in the Golden State, the Fremont Union High School District is a renowned leader in test scores, graduation rates, and course offerings. All FUHSD board candidates (Kou, Arness, Price, Kim, and Nakano-Matsumoto) identify how the district got to this point — and how they’ll continue cultivating success when elected. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreCalifornia Policy Center’s editor Chris Reed reflects on the many bureaucratic directives (e.g., Proposition 98 and Senate Bill 400) that have increased — or made it easy to increase — state worker salaries and pensions. Rather than funding important projects residents care about, California keeps inflating the salaries of union-protected, pension-promised workers, who aren’t going anywhere regardless. Is self-serving “hero pay” making villains out of government employees?
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