As free marketeers, the Opp Now team tends to look askance at public housing schemes. However, the left-leaning Mission Local website in SF does a literate and intelligent job of making the pitch in favor of better public housing management, so we respectfully excerpt Marina Newman's most recent article.
Read MoreDespite Santa Clara County's homelessness count reaching an all-time high, Supervisor Otto Lee remains in denial, and still advocates for Housing First fantasies, while ignoring faster, quicker, more humane solutions. CBS News reports.
Read MoreIn a dramatic vote of No Confidence, the federal Dept of Transportation terminates its financial support of California's doomed high-speed rail boondoggle. The widely panned project (which is hilariously still supported by the SJ City Council) is light years over budget and likely on its last legs. National Review reports.
Read MoreEven the most casual visitor will notice that the boutique suburb to the north is cleaning up its act, as homeless sweeps, dramatically increased shelter capacity, and increased police presence bring a long-delayed improvements to the City's urban fabric. WSJ reports.
Read MoreSpiked online suggests that Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY), pro-high density housing advocates are correct in calling out the slow pace of housing production as key to our national affordability crisis. But wonder why cities where their policies are adopted keep getting more and more expensive.
Read MoreMuch of what goes into making a business-friendly environment actually falls outside the scope of a city’s economic development department. So says Mark Moses, author of The Municipal Financial Crisis, in an Opp Now exclusive Q&A. He points to ongoing and long-term factors like crime prevention, infrastructure maintenance, and lowering the cost of living.
Read MoreHolden Hughes, Mountain View high-schooler posted a picture of himself wearing an acne mask. It went viral—for all the wrong (and false) reasons. A chilling local case study in the tyranny of Silicon Valley's racialist, left-wing cancel culture—and the abject failure of leadership institutions to behave ethically. The exceptional Free Press reports.
Read MoreEx-De Anza College DEI Dean Dr. Tabia Lee and School of Woke author Kenny Xu attribute much of higher ed's free speech problems to this one pervasive theory. The kicker? It wasn't originally intended for academia—let alone free speech debates. An Opp Now exclusive Q&A.
Read MoreIt's a sign of the times, but we've all gotten used to local left-wing politicians and advocates making inaccurate race/sex-baiting charges against moderate politicians. Case in point: A political opponent floated some typically wacky accusations at Morgan Hill Mayor Mark Turner, but this time, an independent Personnel Investigation for the City of Morgan Hill concluded they don't hold water. Excerpts from the formal city report, below.
Read MoreJonathan Lansner of the Southern California News Group argues that "SALT" deductions (favored by both national parties, btw, that allow write-offs up to $40k/yr for property taxes) simply enable absurd housing prices.
Read MoreTony Santa Monica in Southern California has a potential present for cities like SJ that welcome a growing homeless population: a bus-full of homeless transplants. NY Post reports.
Read MoreEven worse than HSR? Marketed to voters as a "transformative" urban revitalization project, it's way over budget, super late, and hopelessly undercut by gov't dissembling. Athan Joshi reports for Ca Policy Center.
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