Garry's List is accepting nominations for its inaugural Civic Impact Awards ahead of the June 2 primary, recognizing the newsletters, reporters, and creators making California politics understandable. Recent posts have also put Bay Area institutions under the microscope — from the Bay Area Council handing its top job to former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf despite her city's policing collapse and indicted successor, to BART commissioning a consultant report arguing fare enforcement was pointless while failing to produce the invoice for it.
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Her Oakland left behind gutted police, fleeing businesses, and an indicted successor. The Bay Area Council thinks that's a resume.
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.