Picture this: we're six years in the future. SF—once an exemplar for homelessness, crime, and drug abuse—is safe and vibrant again. Below, SF Briones Society imagines what 2032's resigning mayor attributes to the success: and, hint, it's all about strengthening (and empowering) local police.
Read MoreIt's far too easy—especially living in the nation's tech capital—to measure our success by achievements. Degrees. Titles. But milk fed blog's Caitlyn Richardson rejects this performative chasing after the wind, and invites us instead to choose “boring” lives of simplicity, joy, and unimaginable richness.
Read MoreSCU philosophy prof Christopher B. Kulp notes that today's local political discourse is deteriorating, due to our proclivity to demonize our opponents. Besides being unpleasant, such condemnation has far-reaching moral—and epistemological—implications.
Read MoreThe Times of London takes a look at the new SF mayor's initial moves to pull our troubled neighbor to the north back from the brink—and sees qualified successes.
Read MoreWhile SJ and Santa Clara County bicker over arcane legal issues, some big CA cities are busy maintaining functional zero on homelessness. Perhaps our Supes and City Council can learn something from muni gov'ts that are not dysfunctional. Community Solutions reports.
Read MoreYou'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.
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