You're not the only one. And it's probably because students are barraged with models and regressions, but don't get the basic nature of economics, what scarcity and competition do, and how the "invisible hand" of self-interest guides... everything. From the Martin Center.
Read MoreThere's trash and mayhem all around San Diego's downtown safe sleeping site. Different gov't agencies point at each other, but do nothing. Are the SCC Supes listening? CBS 8 San Diego reports.
Read MoreBay Area at center of devastating critique of nonprofit malfeasance. From American Affairs.
Read MoreIt's cheaper and faster to get to the moon than to build the CA High-Speed Rail. Thomas Buckley reports on Substack.
Read MoreRAND Corporation does a gigantic study on CA's housing affordability crisis and notes that onerous regulations, as well as built-in labor-friendly contracts, make costs for new housing soar. Take a look at Texas, they recommend, where prices are half of CA's.
Read MoreState bill would allow struggling downtowns to establish “Hospitality Zones” to extend Last Call on weekends and holidays. Matt Haney's (D17-San Francisco) office explains.
Read MoreCentrist coalition SF Briones Society affirms SJ's focus on interim shelters, reminding that homelessness is also deeply intertwined with issues of substance abuse, drug trafficking, and property/violent crime.
Read MoreB'field and Kern County—city and county gov'ts—eschewed scattershot and uncoordinated homelessness efforts (sound familiar?) and instead utilized multi-layered, integrated management techniques familiar to successful tech startups. Result: first big CA city to reach homelessness functional zero. Community Solutions explains.
Read MoreThe California Legislature will not be tightening the state's rent control law this year—but local rent control advocates like Ash Kalra are still trying to keep the deeply misguided concept around. Reason mag reports.
Read MoreJon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Ass'n blames an addiction to short-term thinking and unserious executive leadership. From his HJTA weekly column.
Read MoreAhead of SJ’s State of the City address this Saturday, Opp Now contributors Ron Kirkish and Jim Zito praise Mayor Mahan’s attentiveness to the homelessness epidemic—and ask how we’re measuring success. Ongoing costs. And our target date for “functional zero.” An exclusive.
Read MoreIf we follow online algorithms to value attention over connection, our voice—when discussing politics, culture, etc.—loses its power and depth. Enlightening conversations become banal transactions. Below, an excellent Substack article on reclaiming complex, real, even risky communication (and the Opp Now team smiles behind our glowing laptops :-)).
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