Garry's List is accepting nominations for its inaugural Civic Impact Awards, recognizing the creators, journalists, and tools helping Californians navigate the June 2 primary. Meanwhile, BART is under fresh scrutiny after a public records request revealed the agency can't locate the invoice for a consultant report it commissioned — one that argued fare enforcement doesn't work — even as it pursues a new tax measure. The region's accountability deficit is on full display: from BART's "leave them be" encampment policy that shut down the Transbay Tube for 12 hours, to LA spending $625,000 per unit on homeless housing that sits empty four years later.
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Now they want a new tax, and can't find the invoice for the "equity" report they commissioned to argue enforcing fares was pointless
Los Angeles emptied a building that was already housing people. Four years and $625,000 per unit later, it still houses nobody.
A 2mm chip restored sight more than 80% of blind trial patients, built by a former cofounder of Neuralink.
BART knew about the encampment, had legal authority to clear it, and asked Oakland nicely. Then it burned.
Tom Steyer renamed a 1978 Democratic law after Donald Trump and called it a plan. The loophole is real. The history, and the math, are not.
Public sector unions are picking their next governor. Porter, Swalwell, and Steyer are lining up to perform. One Democrat is not: Matt Mahan
Jelani Nelson drove to Sacramento for months, recruited allies, and won: Academic standards at UCs matter
Harvard and MIT trained 21 of the top 50 AI founders. Every one of them flew west to build in SF.
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.