SF Mayor's moderate image took a hit last week as his proposals to address high rents in city borrow broadly from far-left, anti-market playbook.
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Legislatures and governors are not afraid of undermining — or even downright repealing — citizen initiatives that win at the ballot box. Governing magazine explains.
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Could BART and Muni cut costs before pushing a sales tax that makes almost everything more expensive?
Lefty non profit SPUR dubiously says No, then goes on to claim transit capital project funds simply can’t be “flexed”--or reallocated --to pay for transit operations. Instead, SPUR encourages Bay Areans to pass RTM, a punishing five-county sales tax hike on this November’s ballot.
But former CA Gov candidate Thunder Parley recently took to X to call out SPUR for flexing the facts and distorting one of the key arguments against the transit tax. He says SPUR is using straw men and catastrophism to hide what this is really about: a bailout for agencies who refuse to spend money responsibly. An Opp Now fact check, with Thunder’s comments below:
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It’s as if local media imagines clouds of smog will miraculously disperse if only voters approve the RTM sales tax hike this November. But Los Altos Institution Research Fellow, Opp Now contributing editor, and High School Senior Athan Joshi argues there will be no health benefit. An Opp Now exclusive Op/Ed.
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Economic pressures compel under-40 residents to find greener (and cheaper) pastures in the South and Southwest. The impact on Silicon Valley politics and economics will be substantial.
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Boo! For local gov't, it seems like every day is Halloween. Yet another chance to scare us all with monsters and ogres who can only be chased away with....more taxes or more density! Our Susie Murillo takes a close look at the costume. An Opp Now exclusive.
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Sometimes history changes right in front of us, and we hardly notice it. Opp Now cofounder takes a look at how social and digital media have upended (for better and worse) traditional notions of how ideas and conventional wisdom get created.
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Gotta love those subsidies: SJ and other CA cities say they want to increase affordable housing. So why do they implement policies that actually deter naturally occurring affordable housing?
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Experts keep saying it would be cheaper and more effective if we could just give Uber vouchers to folks instead of building boondoggle mass transit extensions. They have a point.
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The controversial D5 CM tries to censor local critics. It’s not the first time. But local courts remind him of the First Amendment—and deny his call for a restraining order. An Opp Now exclusive.
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In which evidence proves, contrary to our local anti-tech left, how AI and new techs can be good news for low income workers. An Opp Now exclusive.
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SF starts to corral out-of-control non profit spending. Will SJ follow suit?
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