Back in October, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed more cities, counties and school districts across the state to switch to a ranked-choice voting system. The bill, Senate Bill 212 (SB 212), was overwhelmingly approved by both the state Senate and the Assembly. In a ranked-choice voting system, voters rank candidates […]

Here’s some interesting news from San Francisco, businesses in some districts are actually taxing themselves. It’s something that is not often heard of, landlords and businesses embracing the idea of paying more taxes. What exactly are these self imposed taxes paying for? They’re paying for more street cleaning, trash collection, power washing, and all around […]

Just like that, Democrats go from being against foreign interference in our elections (SR 23) to wanting to allow foreign nationals to vote in elections (SB 288). California Democrats have talked a lot about foreigners influencing and interfering in our elections, but in an ironic twist state Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, […]

The authors of a bill that would allow San Francisco drug users to inject themselves at supervised facilities without legal consequences announced last month that the bill won’t move forward this year. Assembly Bill 362 (AB 362) would have created a safe injection site pilot program in San Francisco that, if passed, would last for […]

In late April, an internal draft report by the state rail authority’s staff revealed that the cost to build the 119-mile section of the California bullet train in the Central Valley is projected to increase by $1.8 billion. If this draft report is accurate, that would mean that the total cost for this stretch of […]

It appears that there are several people throughout the state that are working while homeless. A 2017 survey of the homeless population in San Francisco found that 13 percent of the 7,499 homeless people reported having part or full-time employment. In San Diego this year, an estimated 10 percent of the 4,990 people living in […]

According to the Los Angeles Times, the California High Speed Rail Authority will have to increase daily spending by up to nine times over the next four years in order to hit its 2033 deadline and $77 billion budget. Shockingly, the California bullet train project has cost state taxpayers an average of $3.1 million a […]

San Francisco has done a good job with reducing the number of tents on city streets by over half in the past two years, but street behavior by the homeless, the mentally ill, and the drug abusers continues to be a challenge unfortunately. According to the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Services, the number […]

In late April the San Diego City Council unanimously approved legislation to sharply decrease fees to build granny flats, which are often nearly equal to construction costs. The objective is to help with the severe local shortage of affordable housing by increasing construction of more granny flats. Granny flats are additional housing units on an […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation will audit California’s high-speed rail project as costs continue to increase. The inspector general’s audit was announced last month and will examine the Federal Railroad Administration’s oversight of almost $3.5 billion in federal grant money awarded to the rail project. State auditors are also conducting a review of the rail […]