BART can't produce the invoice for a consultant report it used to argue against fare enforcement — even as it pursues a new tax measure. That's the latest example of a pattern this channel tracks closely: California governments spending without accountability, from SF's 540-page charter that made a single public toilet cost $1.7 million, to public sector unions steering $240 billion in state spending toward their preferred gubernatorial candidates. The fiscal reckoning is here, and a few officials are finally fighting back.
Now they want a new tax, and can't find the invoice for the "equity" report they commissioned to argue enforcing fares was pointless
SF's 540-page city charter is the longest in the country, and it was built to protect insiders. Lurie is finally tearing it apart.
Fareed Zakaria just said the quiet part out loud: blue cities are out of control. But San Francisco might actually be charting a different course.
Housing NIMBYs already took 36% of GDP. Now the same playbook is blocking the AI economy. The states that figure out how to share the upside will win the future.
Public sector unions are picking their next governor. Porter, Swalwell, and Steyer are lining up to perform. One Democrat is not: Matt Mahan
California bleeds $20-35 billion a year. Steyer wants to raise taxes. Mahan wants to stop lighting money on fire.
Zohran Mamdani will increase net spending to defend 3 core policy pillars that are destined for failure
SEIU-UHW's asset seizure tax has already cost the state $16.4 billion per year in lost revenue—and it hasn't even passed yet.
Teachers and parents have a common enemy—and it isn't each other. It's a pension system running a 20-year scam.
Cities skim $300 million a year in fees from affordable housing projects, then wonder why we can't house families.