Recent local disturbances around immigration enforcement raise the key constitutional question: How far can other governmental entities go when they oppose a federal law? Cato Institute explores.

Since opening its doors in 2010, San Antonio's all-inclusive Haven for Hope homeless shelter has provided resources (counseling, childcare, etc.) to help folks get back on their feet. Despite overwhelming success, Haven has faced criticism for requiring program participants to be sober. CalMatters thinks it'd be difficult to replicate this shelter in CA, though the tide may be turning in SJ.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) believes colleges shouldn't take political/social stances on issues that don't threaten their core mission, if they want to preserve free speech and scholarship. (We wish San Jose State could've read this, years ago...)

The State has been given 37 days to respond or risk losing the remaining billions in federal funding. Jon Fleischman of FlashReport analyzes, on Substack.

For many, it's easier choosing ironic detachment from real local issues than admitting to being invested, uncertain, and even nervous about them. (And, hey, we use our fair share of sarcasm, too!) But Substack's Catherine Shannon warns against numbly viewing all of life—not just politics, but every meaningful endeavor—as a ridiculous joke.

Bay Area transportation and housing initiatives are often portrayed as solutions to the climate catastrophe we are facing due to excessive greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. Marc Joffe of SHIFT-Bay Area unpacks the data and finds a whole lot of exaggeration. From CA Policy Center.

Many are doing it, like the Washington, D.C. district—and have observed teacher quality, retention of better teachers, and students' standardized test scores go up. Perhaps SJUSD could use a shake-up. The brilliant Larry Sand reports on American Greatness.

Academic achievement is down. Enrollment, down. But K-12 schools in the Bay—and beyond—keep pandering for increased state/fed funding (by 32% since 2018!) and for taxpayers to sign off on yet another tax. Um, isn't gluttony supposed to be a sin? Public Policy Institute of CA gives the data.