“Avoiding layoffs is not in the interest of the taxpayers,” says Mark Moses, and it’s “too late to find savings from efficiency gains this year.” Instead, he argues, San Jose should begin a long-term approach to financial health: management should slowly regain control of the workforce, and sunset wasteful programs. An Opportunity Now exclusive Q&A.
While Dem gubernatorial candidates cherrypick policy tweaks to address the state's eternal housing crisis, Blockchain Real Estate gets to the nonpartisan heart of the matter with a full list of issues for SJ that need to be addressed at the city or state level.
A recent Spotlight article frames San Jose’s $65 million shortfall as a short-term balancing act, but nobody’s asking how to solve the structural deficit. So says municipal finance guru Mark Moses, author of The Municipal Financial Crisis. An Opportunity Now exclusive Q&A response.
According to Forbes, MoneyGeek's fifth annual report on the safest cities in America (2025 report) places SJ 159th out of 315 municipalities, behind San Diego, Anaheim, Irvine, and Riverside in CA alone.
While one Service Employees International Union (SEIU) local waxes eloquent about the evils of wealth inequality, its sister locals are pushing regressive sales tax measures in multiple counties. The unifying principle is not egalitarianism but more dues revenue for the union. Marc Joffe of Contra Costa Taxpayers' explores.
Through widespread collective bargaining, market failures can be corrected, decades of income inequality may be reversed, and economic growth can be supported. The Workrisenetwork explains.
