California FocusOpinionElias: Year’s key bill limits social media manipulation of kidsThomas D. EliasJune 1, 2022 June 1, 20220237 The most important bill legislators will see this year might be one that forces big electronic firms to stop trying to addict kids for profit....
California FocusOpinionElias: Trump’s anti-democratic census shapes primaryThomas D. EliasMay 25, 2022 May 25, 20220135 The aim all along was to undercount minorities to give more clout to white voters who are more likely to vote Republican....
California FocusOpinionElias: Doubt removed — oil refiners gouging usThomas D. EliasMay 17, 2022 May 17, 20220293 Consumers were taken advantage of by oil companies in a cartel-like manner as every gasoline refiner raised prices at the same moment....
California FocusOpinionElias: Expected anti-abortion ruling could boost stateThomas D. EliasMay 11, 2022 May 11, 20220118 California could be a leading beneficiary if the draft U.S. Supreme Court abortion opinion leaked in early May becomes reality?...
California FocusOpinionElias: EDD responsible for single-payer failure?Thomas D. EliasMay 4, 2022 May 4, 20220221 After the unemployment insurance debacle, why should Californians want to entrust massive sums of money to the state for distribution?...
California FocusOpinionElias: Is state’s big housing crunch mostly fiction?Thomas D. EliasApril 27, 2022 April 27, 20221553 Leading officials continually spout unsubstantiated, possibly phony, estimates of housing need in the state....
California FocusOpinionElias: Cities fight to maintain distinctive charactersThomas D. EliasApril 20, 2022 April 20, 20220307 Thanks to Senate Bills 9 and 10, it’s open season on the character of every city in the state of California....
California FocusOpinionElias: Pro-corporate bias in key mental health rulingThomas D. EliasApril 13, 2022 April 13, 20220213 Until now, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal court that often gets to oversee California laws, appeared somewhat independent....
California FocusOpinionElias: Why utility fines mean so littleThomas D. EliasApril 6, 2022 April 6, 20220130 The utilities know they’ll get the money back, and then some, the next time the Public Utilities Commission considers a rate increase....
California FocusOpinionElias: Will UC forfeit tax status, impartiality?Thomas D. EliasMarch 30, 2022 March 30, 20220183 The faculty is putting at risk the institution’s longstanding impeccable credentials as an impartial source of reliable information....
California FocusOpinionElias: Gas gouge deja vu — Don’t blame the warThomas D. EliasMarch 23, 2022 March 23, 20221185 This is the 10th time in the last 12 years that gasoline prices have risen suddenly and far more than external circumstances can justify....
California FocusOpinionElias: NIMBYs get a bad rapThomas D. EliasMarch 17, 2022March 17, 2022 March 17, 2022March 17, 20221514 Rarely has a group suffered a less deserved rash of insults than homeowners who may favor developments, but “not in my backyard.”...
California FocusOpinionElias: Utility profits unspoken part of rooftop solar fightThomas D. EliasMarch 9, 2022 March 9, 20220498 For state utilities like San Diego Gas & Electric, buying power from distant solar farms means vast profits....
California FocusOpinionElias: Good reason for a gas tax holidayThomas D. EliasMarch 3, 2022 March 3, 20220233 That kind of move has been anathema for California governors since the 2003 recall of Democrat Gray Davis....
California FocusOpinionElias: At last, someone slows wildland developmentThomas D. EliasFebruary 23, 2022 February 23, 20220195 A judge in Lake County said no to a luxury mixed use project on land partly singed by past fires and deemed likely to see...