With the incoming Trump administration planning to defund California High-Speed Rail, it’s time for local transit officials to revisit the already weak case for extending HSR and Caltrain from 4th and King Street in San Francisco 1.3 miles to Salesforce Transit Center. Below, an Opp Now exclusive analysis from Contra Costa Taxpayers Association prez Marc Joffe.
Read MoreIn February, SJ's Dept.of Racial Equity raised some eyebrows at a Council meeting, in which any questions of its sweeping goals and contortions of language were met with howls of--you guessed it--"racist" by councilmembers and city staffers alike. Our editorial team reviewed the theater. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreSilicon Valley Taxpayers Association president Mark Hinkle considers how Ayn Rand’s renowned “Atlas Shrugged” (albeit fictitious) echoes the terrifying realities of socialism — that he’s experienced firsthand. The latest installment in favorite political book analyses. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MorePat Waite, president of Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility, notes budgetary irresponsibility is creeping back in SJ--this time in the form of grandiose ideas about a futuristic airport connector and SJ's own public utility organization. Citizens, beware.
Read MoreIn the first of a three-part series about the key issues in the mayor's race, County Supervisor Cindy Chavez and D10 Councilmember Matt Mahan dig into the history of land use and housing policy decisions that led to our unaffordability crisis, and their plans to fix it.
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