As local online websites consider new ways to banish independent comments that run contrary to their lefty narrative, thoughtful readers wonder: How did this come to pass? What ruined so-called "journalism?" Audrey Mir in City Journal offers an answer: As the internet demolished legacy media's ad-based model, it ushered in an era of "Post-Journalism," which needs outrage, hyper-partisan postures, and an ever-present Enemy to make their subscription-based business model work. Excerpt below. 

How will the worldwide electricity dearth impact Gov. Newsom’s only-EVs-by-2035 mandate? Will local EVs be permitted to charge when and as needed (if completely reliant on intermittent, unstable “green” power)? Ronald Stein, respected Californian energy policy commentator, explores in CFACT.

Asian Industry B2B president Marc Ang turns his gaze from SoCal politics to analyze new SJ Mayor Mahan’s Business Journal interview. Impressed with Mahan’s campaigning approach and straightforward acknowledgement of the City’s weaknesses, Ang requests the mayor give more details about his affordable housing/homelessness solutions. An Opp Now exclusive.

In this last election season, it was impossible not to notice how the local Left was trying to move the goalposts regarding acceptable political speech—at least for their opponents. While local progressive arguably indulged in race-baiting and homophobic rhetoric themselves, they contorted language and logic to claim, absurdly, that fair-minded critiques of far-left policies from centrists were beyond the Pale. Daniel Henninger at the Wall Street Journal unpacks the phenomenon of creeping censorship from the Left.

With 44.4% of the votes, Elisabeth Halliday was recently elected as a member of the Campbell Union High School District board (Area 2). Here, she sits down with Opp Now for an exclusive look at her Hopes & Fears moving forward — in particular, why ignorance of the past endangers local school boards. If “those who control the past control the future,” those who know the past can advocate for positive change.

As Newsom ambitiously envisions Life Without Petroleum for California, America Out Loud’s Tom Harris offers a reminder: Crude oil derivatives, to be banned as non-renewable energy sources, are needed to create thousands of products CA’ns utilize in everyday living. Ban petroleum? Watch for shortages, inflated prices, and disastrously altered—much less modern—lifestyles.