Our new community forum puts every Californian in the same room, so what one of us catches, all of us know. Your first job is to help us build this cycle’s voter guide.
The second-largest school district in America has until mid-August to convince county overseers it can avoid the fate of Oakland, Vallejo, and Inglewood—after signing $1.13 billion in union contracts the county had already warned, in writing, it couldn't afford.
A Bayview nonprofit at the center of two separate City Hall scandals is trying to send its third consecutive leader to the Board of Supervisors.
A San Francisco judge just suspended the sentence of the man who killed an 84-year-old Asian grandfather in cold blood. This is the state of "justice" in the city.
The Legislature is back for the final weeks of its session. One bipartisan, bicameral caucus has turned problem solving from a talking point into a track record.
A $3.2 billion shipyard just picked Texas over Solano County. It's the latest builder to walk away from California's red tape rather than fight through it.
A network of SF housing nonprofits — TODCO, CCDC — and their political allies have killed hundreds of units, hidden f...
Oakland Ceasefire cut gun violence in half by targeting the 0.5% driving it, Flock cameras slashed carjackings 66%, a...
A union-backed one-time 5% wealth tax on ~200 California billionaires qualified for the November 2026 ballot promisin...
Federal prosecutors launched fraud investigations into California's $70+ billion homeless spending, uncovering embezz...
A PauseAI member firebombed Sam Altman's home carrying a hit list of AI executives — the violent edge of an anti-AI m...
Our new community forum puts every Californian in the same room, so what one of us catches, all of us know. Your first job is to help us build this cycle’s voter guide.
The second-largest school district in America has until mid-August to convince county overseers it can avoid the fate of Oakland, Vallejo, and Inglewood—after signing $1.13 billion in union contracts the county had already warned, in writing, it couldn't afford.
A Bayview nonprofit at the center of two separate City Hall scandals is trying to send its third consecutive leader to the Board of Supervisors.
A San Francisco judge just suspended the sentence of the man who killed an 84-year-old Asian grandfather in cold blood. This is the state of "justice" in the city.
The Legislature is back for the final weeks of its session. One bipartisan, bicameral caucus has turned problem solving from a talking point into a track record.
A network of SF housing nonprofits — TODCO, CCDC — and their political allies have killed hundreds of units, hidden f...
Oakland Ceasefire cut gun violence in half by targeting the 0.5% driving it, Flock cameras slashed carjackings 66%, a...
A union-backed one-time 5% wealth tax on ~200 California billionaires qualified for the November 2026 ballot promisin...
Federal prosecutors launched fraud investigations into California's $70+ billion homeless spending, uncovering embezz...
A PauseAI member firebombed Sam Altman's home carrying a hit list of AI executives — the violent edge of an anti-AI m...
A shipyard that could have anchored tens of thousands of good jobs in Solano County is going to Brownsville instead. It is the latest entry in a pattern California refuses to break: we make it too hard to build here, so the builders go somewhere else, and working families pay the bill.
