Below is an excerpt from a letter sent by Rocky Hill, Premier Recycle's CEO, to SJ's City Council. The letter addresses what he sees as a pattern of bullying and intimidation toward his company as a result of councilmembers Ortiz, Torres, and Candelas unethically—and perhaps illegally—using City logo, letterhead, and resources to coerce him to accept a union contract. Hill's comments are aligned with LA's City Attorney, who recently requested that LA councilmembers back off overt unionization advocacy while in their official capacity as CMs.

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UC Berkeley College Republicans' Utkarsh Jain tells Campus Reform that despite SCOTUS' victory for race-neutral admissions, local colleges will continue using sly workarounds, like requiring job applicants to submit diversity statements (which significantly reduces Asian/white hires).

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Board director Debora Allen advocates for smart fiscal management at the Bay's bankrupt transit agency. Here, Allen outlines how to raise revenue via creating repeat customers. Really, if issues of reliability, affordability, and safety (flashing back to Opp Now co-founder Escher's jarring BART rumpus) persist, is it surprising that we aren't even reaching half of pre-Covid ridership?

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MaryAnn Martinez at the New York Post writes that despite the Texas capital's ban on public park encampments, Austin is overrun with illegal homeless set-ups from individuals who pose safety risks to others. Why? The city's “Woke” police force is understaffed and, like San Jose's, stretched thin on non-violent crime responses.

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If San Jose truly wants to dent our historically high office vacancies, we should reevaluate land use requirements to make changeovers cost- and time-effective. Business Insider contributor Emil Skandul's suggestions to streamline office-to-housing conversions, below.

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Following a pivotal SCOTUS ruling that put an end to race-selective school admissions, a Harvard and Brown University study identifies how to organically increase socioeconomic diversity at colleges: eliminate legacy and donor admissions, which currently constitute 13.8% of Stanford and 13.1% of SCU students.

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Thien Ho, district attorney of CA's capital city since November, has pledged to sue Sacramento city leaders unless they pick up the pace on clearing illegal encampments and citing homeless people who refuse shelter. Some label his proposal as unkind, but Ho claims (along with folks like SCC's Johnny Khamis) it's all about keeping our streets crime-free. An Associated Press story.

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Amidst Ellenberg and Cortese's pro-UBI PR parades, the Business Insider's Melissa Kearney and Magne Mogstad spell out why indiscriminately awarding citizens' payouts is wasteful and unhelpful. Gov't welfare programs should consider income, able-bodiedness, and other circumstances, or risk further expanding wealth discrepancies.

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Leading up to 2016's successful Prop 64, local pols touted promised benefits of legitimizing marijuana cultivation/distribution in CA. Almost seven years later, NPR reflects on these claims, finding that while the State budget is singing hallelujah thanks to legal pot revenue, crime rates and product prices haven't improved.

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Actual results of State homelessness initiatives seem lost in the cosmos, remarks Jeff Vaughn on Twitter, and get this: The $17.5 bil CA's spent over the last four years could have paid for every unhoused person's rent. But where's it all going? In SJ, every unsheltered homeless person could get over $15k/yr from our $116 mil budget, but are instead reaping costly (and largely ineffective) PSH projects.

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Defunding the police. Confiscatory rent controls. Extremist racial equity policies. Back-door public housing. Decarceration. Brandon Poulter at the Daily Caller takes a look at the far-Left wing of the Democratic Party, and how it’s pressuring moderate Democrats in the Bay Area and around the country into extremist positions that are out of step with the party's mainstream.

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