Reporting from the Garry's List newsroom. Members can't post here — but every piece opens a thread you can argue in.
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Following race-based admissions scandal, UC faces a reckoning
Two UCLA schools face federal findings of race-based admissions just as UC faculty warn that students arrive unprepared for college math.
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Abuse, Extortion, Racketeering: The Allegations Against SEIU Boss Dave Regan
A complete, sourced timeline of the misconduct allegations against Dave Regan, the SEIU boss behind California's wealth tax — from a 2009 assault claim to a 2026 racketeering suit.
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The University of California Is Still Discriminating by Race
Federal investigators say the UC continues to circumvent repeated bans on racial preferences - including the most recent 2023 Supreme Court decision.
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San Francisco Is Overhauling How It Pays for Homelessness Services —But the Hard Part Is Still Ahead
Mayor Lurie is rewriting all $500 million of the city's homelessness contracts around outcomes instead of expenses, following years of reporting on providers like HomeRise, which ran a complex where a resident lay dead for twelve days.
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The Environmental Law That Became a Housing Veto
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was signed to make government account for its own construction. A court decision later put it in the hands of homeowners instead, and housing paid the price for half a century.
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How Oakland's Leadership Produced the Worst Property Crime Rate in the Nation
Behind the nation's worst property crime rate lies fifteen years of disastrous decisions.
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The New Gatekeepers
San Francisco has co-opted the language of justice to run a homelessness machine built on control, not outcomes.
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The Democratic Party Endorsed the Wealth Tax. Its Doctors, Teachers, Nurses, and Firefighters Didn't.
California Democrats backed Prop 40 by two votes. The real story is the coalition of workers who voted no, and they are the ones the tax claims to save.
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The Caucus to Watch as California's Legislative Session Closes
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.
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Billions of Dollars in, Homelessness in LA Continues to Rise
Los Angeles' own audits show a system that can't track what it spends, can't say what works, and never makes anyone answer for either.
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Why California Is a Crucial Artery in Beijing's Campaign Against American AI
The nation's data center battles are the front line of a quiet, Beijing-linked influence campaign.
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False Choice Narratives Are Anti-Asian
Three fictions San Francisco sold as justice, and the community that keeps paying for them.
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LAUSD's Looming Insolvency Crisis
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 wri...
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A Big Win for San Francisco's Budget—With Bigger Tests Still Ahead
San Francisco closed a $643 million deficit and passed its largest budget ever weeks ahead of schedule, but the bigger challenges are only just coming into view.
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California Just Lost 10,000 Jobs to Texas—Again
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.
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A Primer: The Labor and Public-Interest Coalition Against Prop 40
A union wrote California's wealth tax and marketed it as a way to fix healthcare and schools. But the teachers, doctors, clinics, and officers it names as beneficiaries are now fighting to kill it.
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The Nonprofit Behind San Francisco's Pay-to-Play Scandal Wants Another Supervisor Seat
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.
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The Merchant and the Lawyer
A story of shared struggle, shifting coalitions, and abandoned alliances.
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LA's Council Voted No on Oversight, Yes on a Lighter Schedule
The council shelved every measure that would have checked its power—and rushed through the one that lightens its schedule.
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Bribes and Blind Spots: SF's Corruption Problem
San Francisco's recent scandals aren't one story—some are proven bribery, others are officials who didn't recuse. But both keep slipping through the same two chokepoints: contract awards and project approvals.
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How a Honduran Trafficking Network Captured San Francisco's Fentanyl Trade
San Francisco's elected officials had years to act on the Tenderloin's drug network. They chose posturing instead.
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The Campaign to Kill American AI Runs Through San Francisco
How a web of foreign money, from Shanghai to Geneva, found its way into Bay Area nonprofits now driving the movement to block American AI.
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California's Encampment Fire Crisis
California won't enforce basic public order in its encampments. Working-class neighborhoods are paying for that choice in fire, smoke, and lost property, while wealthier ones are zoned out of the crisis entirely.
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A Quarter of SF's Overdose Deaths Happen in City-Funded Housing
1.5% of SF’s population lives in city-funded housing. 26% of its drug OD deaths happen there.
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California Legalized the Housing. It Just Didn't Get Built.
On paper, California has some of the most aggressive pro-housing laws in the country. In practice, the homes they legalized are barely being built — and the number of permits keep falling.
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California's Primary Has Ushered a New Mandate: Time to Move Beyond Ideology to Governing Competence
An analysis of the June 2026 California primary, and the statewide test that follows it in November.
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The Fight for a State That Works
California's pragmatic center is growing, powered not by big institutions but by everyday citizens, immigrant families, and little tech. The November ballot is the biggest test of that progress yet.
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California's Quiet War on Public Records
A provision slipped into a public records bill would have put a price tag on asking questions. But the people who ask them for a living fought back.
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SF Advances a Public Bank for the Loans Private Lenders Won't Make
The supervisor funding San Francisco's new public bank co-founded the campaign for it and commissioned its polling. Her tax would raise only a fraction of what the bank needs — and would put taxpayers behind a public lender designed to m...
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Jackie Fielder Returns as Leak Allegations Loom
Jackie Fielder returns to City Hall on June 29 after three months on medical leave—but the City Attorney’s investigation into whether her office leaked a privileged legal memo hasn’t closed.
