California Focus: Make one thing easier this year — Repeal AB 5
It’s difficult to find a skilled field where the most destructive law California has adopted in the last few years does not hurt substantial numbers...
Thomas D. Elias
California Focus: Slapdash budget cuts or an Arnold-style bond?
Even a cursory look at the planned cuts shows one consistent thread: The neediest will be hit hardest. For some, survival itself is threatened....
California Focus: Rage is not just about racism, but also economics
For decades, academics warned that the ever-widening income gap in America could have dire consequences for California and the rest of the nation unless someone...
California Focus: Money, race linked to virus problems in senior homes
The headlines make it clear. So do the statistics on who is most likely to be infected and then killed by the novel coronavirus: Residents...
California Focus: Density advocates ignore post-pandemic landscape
Listen to California’s leading advocates of housing density and you have to conclude that, like ostriches, they kept their heads deep in sand through the...
California Focus: How the rampaging virus led to no-bail policy
First there were the “geriatric police,” cops who occasionally stopped senior citizens near the beginning of this spring’s coronavirus pandemic and told them to get...
California Focus: Newsom loses transparency — and the unity it brought early on
Californians have shown with great clarity during the coronavirus pandemic that if they’re convinced something needs to be done, they’ll cheerfully do it even when...
California Focus: Census could help state in slow-growth era
It’s not only representation in Congress at stake in this canvass....
California Focus: Current crisis may bring a viable housing solution
Millions of square feet of office space, maybe billions, are idle....
California Focus: Dumped hospitals — Time to reevaluate Arnold, Brown
Ancient Egyptians first observed that only when we eliminate traditions do we discover why they first became traditions. That’s a warning state officials must heed...