Jerry Brown
To end the housing crisis, California leaders can't be afraid to put all options on the table
How do you know that California’s housing problem has hit crisis proportions? When state lawmakers introduce more than 130 bills to try and fix it.
The state’s housing market has long been unaffordable for far too many Californians. But in recent years, the problem has become impossible to ignore. Rapidly rising rents are forcing more residents to spend a staggering percentage of their take-home pay to keep a roof over their heads. Financial advisors recommend spending no more than 30% of your income on housing, but one in three renters in California pays more than half of their income to their landlord. Plus the greatest job growth has been in coastal cities that have the highest...
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To end the housing crisis, California leaders can't be afraid to put all options on the table
How do you know that California’s housing problem has hit crisis proportions? When state lawmakers introduce more than 130 bills to try and fix it.
The state’s housing market has long been unaffordable for far too many Californians. But in recent...
Light sentence in Northern California rape case called 'more egregious than Brock Turner'
In what a Northern California district attorney is calling a case “more egregious than Brock Turner” and deserving of a stiffer punishment, a 20-year-old man will serve only four months in jail for drugging and raping a family member.
Del Norte...
Single-payer healthcare in California? Time to take a cold shower and return to the real world
A state-run universal healthcare system? California only? It’s fantasy.
Current legislation in Sacramento is fatally flawed and foolhardy.
Why? It would be astronomically expensive, politically impossible and beyond state government’s competence....
Essential Politics: Trump dashes to Rome, slashes federal spending
While news about President Trump has been dominated for weeks by accusations of scandal, there’s a new thread to talk about as the week reaches its midpoint: his plan to make major cuts in a slew of domestic spending programs.
And that’s gotten the...
After raising tuition, Cal State trustees grapple with smaller budget increase in governor's latest proposal
California State University’s Board of Trustees, which recently approved a controversial tuition hike, grappled Tuesday with Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget proposal, which takes away some additional funding on the grounds that the rise in tuition...
Trump’s budget will hit hard for California's most vulnerable, advocates and state lawmakers warn
President Trump’s proposed budget would likely result in billions of dollars of cuts to vital health and human services programs in California, state Democratic lawmakers and advocates for the poor said Tuesday.
“It’s unconscionable and un-American,”...
Essential Politics: California Democrats plot Trump resistance
As President Trump enjoyed a royal welcome and promised he would not "lecture" more than 50 Arab and Muslim nations on how their governments should function, Democrats in the most populous state — and one of the most liberal — in the nation gathered to...
Gov. Brown travels the globe talking about climate change. He should focus on this basic program at home
Gov. Jerry Brown traipses all over the world trying to save the planet from global warming. But he needs to salvage one basic environmental program here at home.
That’s the widely popular beverage container recycling program. People use it and feel...
California Democrats will be urged to 'persist' at their convention this weekend. Here's the story behind it
Stenciled on sidewalks, projected on buildings and tweeted in hashtags, a one-word message will greet California Democrats as they arrive in Sacramento for their party convention this weekend: Persist.
It’s not a guerrilla marketing campaign for a...
As political pressure for approval intensifies, the case for a big desalination plant remains cloudy
You can surmise that a business is running into trouble when it starts lining up political firepower. Consider Poseidon Water, which has been trying for nearly 20 years to win approval for a $1-billion desalination plant on the Huntington Beach coastline....
Man convicted in 1988 killing of Inglewood cop to be set free over objections of family and law enforcement
A man convicted of masterminding a robbery that led to the 1988 slaying of an Inglewood police sergeant is set to be released from prison despite the furious pleas of the slain officer’s family and law enforcement leaders, officials said.
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