Media & Narrative
Elections & Voting Integrity
Introducing the Garry's List Civic Impact Awards
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SF Bay Area
Garry's List is accepting nominations for its inaugural Civic Impact Awards ahead of the June 2 primary, recognizing the newsletters, creators, and reporters helping Californians make sense of their ballots. Meanwhile, BART is under scrutiny on two fronts: a public records request revealed the agency can't locate the invoice for a consultant report it commissioned arguing fare enforcement was pointless — even as encampment fires it knew about shut down the Transbay Tube for 12 hours in February.
Transit & Safety
Budgets & Fiscal Policy
BART Paid Consultants to Say Fare Evasion Didn't Matter — Then Lost the Receipt
Now they want a new tax, and can't find the invoice for the "equity" report they commissioned to argue enforcing fares was pointless
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Homelessness & Drug Crisis
State Capacity
Why Is Los Angeles Spending $20M on 32 Empty Housing Units?
Los Angeles emptied a building that was already housing people. Four years and $625,000 per unit later, it still houses nobody.
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Techno-Optimism
Tech
Brain Computer Interfaces Are Now Giving Sight Back to the Blind
A 2mm chip restored sight more than 80% of blind trial patients, built by a former cofounder of Neuralink.
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Transit & Safety
State Capacity
BART's 'Leave Them Be' Order Burned the Transbay Tube
BART knew about the encampment, had legal authority to clear it, and asked Oakland nicely. Then it burned.
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State Politicians
CA Ballot Measures
Steyer's $20 Billion "Trump Tax Loophole" Is a Lie
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.
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State Politicians
Budgets & Fiscal Policy
The Special Interest Machine Is Selecting Their Pick for California Governor
Public sector unions are picking their next governor. Porter, Swalwell, and Steyer are lining up to perform. One Democrat is not: Matt Mahan
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Merit & Excellence
State Politicians
How One Professor Helped Kill a Bad Bill
Jelani Nelson drove to Sacramento for months, recruited allies, and won: Academic standards at UCs matter
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Tech
Asset Seizure Taxes
Boston Cooked the Golden Goose
Harvard and MIT trained 21 of the top 50 AI founders. Every one of them flew west to build in SF.
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Asset Seizure Taxes
CA Ballot Measures
The Wealth Exodus Is Live: Watch California Die
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.
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