A proposed bill backed by SJ Mayor Mahan and Sen. Blakespear that would've required counties to step up and help pay for and run homelessness shelters got derailed by the powerful, who ask for "more discussion" and kicked the can down the road by a decade. Axios reports.
In part 2 of an Opp Now exclusive, Families & Homes SJ president Sandra Delvin and past Los Altos mayor Anita Enander discuss why they're dubious of proposed SB79—and what SF's housing situation might warn us about densification.
In a recent YouTube video, transit bro Alan Fisher joins the critiques of the VTA extension’s single-bore tunneling approach, which is more expensive (and less accessible) than traditional twin-bore. Contra Costa Taxpayers Association’s Marc Joffe breaks down the data—and the troubled future of BART SV Phase II—in this Opp Now exclusive.
No parking minimums. More zoning exemptions. Are SJ Council's attempts to make it easier to develop housing truly solving affordability issues—or driving up costs? An Opp Now exclusive Q&A on zoning, densification, and the builder's remedy, with Families & Homes SJ president Sandra Delvin and past Los Altos mayor Anita Enander.
Stanford University, Cal, UCLA, and UC Irvine are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly considering race in their admissions processes, even though state and federal law now forbid it. Policy experts tell The College Fix that these schools are creating a “system of reverse discrimination.”
Dept. of Ed says Branham High coverage of Arab–Israeli conflict discriminated against Jewish students. The Chron reports.
Post-lawsuit, CA Community Colleges has pinky-promised to stop mandating DEI alignment for local faculty. But we wonder if it'll take time for colleges like De Anza to fully shift from ideological hostility to not-far-left folks. Case in point: a telling recent survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (with 6k+ profs).
Politico suggests that progressive state politicians should take note: Californians are more worried about homelessness and cost of living than Elon Musk's hand gestures.
SJUSD proposes to extend its $72 parcel tax—originally touted as temporary back in 2016—to "maintain and improve" English, math, and science programming. But Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association's president Mark Hinkle questions if the tax even makes sense, with the district's dropping enrollment, failing academic standards—and how they just got $1.15B from taxpayers in November. An Opp Now exclusive.
