California Restaurants on Verge of Going Under With Excessive Mandates, Higher Costs | Brian Back | John Kabateck
“I’ve sent an open letter to [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom. Not only have we seen the cost of almost everything go up exponentially in the last few years, but also faced new regulations and mandates....
7 Apr 202431min
California’s Dam Removal Damages: Local Farmers Fear Liability for Massive Salmon Deaths | Theodora Johnson
“It really has been the biggest dam removal experiment in modern history. People who were very much in favor of dam removal are now beside themselves because they had no idea this would be the outcome...
6 Apr 202451min
What Californians Can’t Afford to Miss in Prop 1 | Susan Shelley
“It’s being sold to the voters as treatment. But you’ve got $2 billion going into housing that can be for people who are still using hard drugs. If you have a building with, let’s say, 40 units, and 1...
1 Apr 202444min
Former Homeless Reveals What Homelessness is Like in Sacramento | Matt King
‘It’s almost like we’re living in an open-air mental health facility. There are people walking down the streets; you don’t know if they’re going to shoot you, stab you, punch you, spit on you... And w...
30 Mar 202455min
Are California Housing Mandates Ending Community Involvement and Character of Cities? | Amy Kalish | Lydia Kou
“The goal is to densify every town in the state. To densify it—so that‘d be walking around, not driving. In some places, it doesn’t work. But this whole policy has been applied as ’one size fits all' ...
22 Mar 202449min
California Parents Are Afraid of Losing Their Kids | Erin Friday
“The school adopted my daughter’s new identity, which was a boy, changed her records to be male name, called her that in class. They told me I was unsafe. So they were safer for my daughter. This is a...
19 Mar 202445min
Former Prison Guard Explains Why California Prisons Are Becoming Unsafe | Hector Bravo
“It is like working at a zoo, and they’ve opened up every single cage: to the bears, to the lions, to the panthers, to the giraffes, to the elephants. And you got the correctional officers like: “Oh m...
16 Mar 202451min
Will California Lose Its Entrepreneurial Spirit as More Businesses Invest in Other States? | Marshall Toplansky
“Who is leaving? That’s probably the most worrying aspect of all of this. The people who are leaving are the most productive, what I call the seed corn of California—people who are going into family f...
14 Mar 202446min
