If it's Tuesday, it must be racism. Labor/left politicians and their stenographers in local media trotted out ridiculous charges of SJPD racism regarding successful traffic management over the 5.5 weekend. Neighborhood downtown leaders dismantle politicos' false claims in emails to State Senator Cortese, Assemblymember Ash Kalra, and CMs Torres & Ortiz.
Read MoreMetric fixation much? Many CA'n lawmakers believe anything—even freeing serious criminals—is worth it to reduce jail occupancy. Over in LA County, a decarceration proposal (via releasing offenders with $50k-or-less bails) was recently tabled as being hasty. Nonetheless, the OC Register points out that other liberal CA'n counties might succeed with similar laws, especially considering Supervisor Ellenberg's tenacity in pushing decarceration plan... after decarceration plan.
Read MoreFollowing an incident that overwhelmingly united people nationwide in favor of free speech, some still believe Stanford Law Dean Martinez's apt apology wasn't worth the squeeze. The Washington Free Beacon explains how Stanford's Black Law Students Association will now boycott college events for, in their words, scapegoating DEI Dean Steinbach and marginalizing Black students.
Read MoreOne of the narratives that's been repeated over and over by local media since Mahan's mayoral win is this: He won't be able to lead a Labor/Left-aligned council. That narrative crashed at the end of April when the moderate council bloc won a 9–2 vote to reject COPA—one of the nonprofit Left's most sought-after policy wishes. Former councilmember and current Planning Commissioner Pierluigi Oliverio breaks down the politics of it all in an Opp Now exclusive interview.
Read MoreIt's easy to mentally switch off when it comes to radicalism on local college campuses (it's like reading on the news that water is, indeed, still wet). Amid recent student-led stunts in schools like Stanford and SF State, Bari Weiss of the Free Press elucidates why we should keep paying attention: Young people, even those we'd call on the fringes, are powerfully shaping our institutions—and our collective future.
Read MoreDays ago, Annie Corbett, formerly the owner of SJ's Corbett Group Homes, Inc., was sentenced to prison for a laundry list of fiscal chicanery: $752,000 unpaid taxes. Org funds funneled to her personal checking account. Lying to bookkeepers that tax obligations had been taken care of. The Merc breaks down the nonprofit's disheartening—but not all that shocking—legal scandal.
Read MoreThe California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has announced it will vote against a board's committee if comprised of less than 30% women. Last year, linguist Dr. Alan Perlman unpacked on Opp Now the DEI fallacy of “Discrimination [= ‘equity’] is Equality,” the idea that unfair, identity-based opportunities will lead us to—equality. California Globe's comments on the CalSTRS controversy below.
Read MoreAny hopes that Sylvia Arenas' exit from the SJ City Council would signal the end of wild comments from the dais were dashed on 4.25 as District 5's CM Peter Ortiz picked up Arenas' mantle with gusto. Ortiz proclaimed that votes against a memo to expand SJ's housing preservation efforts were "violence against working families." Mayor Matt Mahan took exception to Ortiz' incendiary claim, but Ortiz was undeterred. In an Opp Now exclusive, the team unpacks Ortiz’s falsehoods and reframes them to reveal unreasonable hyperbole and unseemly bullying.
Read MoreThe Fallon statue is gone; the Americana painting that arguably glorified violence against the police has similarly disappeared from the Public Square. Good riddance, says Opp Now co-founder Christopher Escher, who posits that the city shouldn't even be in the business of funding political art at all. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreAfter over-regulating many major corporations out of the Golden State, pols including Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) plan to over-tax any left behind, “to protect California progress.” Katy Grimes of the CA Globe discusses why Skinner's proffered tax increase, though seemingly beneficial to the everyday person, will overall hurt workers and consumers the most.
Read MoreThe Free Press's Bari Weiss breaks down the infectious ideology that is trying to shove out classical liberalism. Under Wokeism, people are defined and valued by their intersectional identity check boxes, they must atone for ancestors' sins, and they are swiftly “canceled” for speaking against the orthodoxy. Sound familiar, Silicon Valley?
Read MoreSan Francisco, like SJ, has lately seen the hazy curtain lifted on nonprofit/gov't interrelations. Most recently, according to a SF Standard investigation (and confirmed by US prosecutors), SF org Clean City Coalition is alleged to have engaged in highly illegal, dangerous money laundering behaviors. Yet SF's Dept of Public Works maintains that contracting Clean City was completely above board.
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