BART can't find the invoice for a consultant report it commissioned to argue fare enforcement doesn't work — even as it pursues a new tax measure. Meanwhile, LA spent $20 million converting a functioning homeless shelter into 32 units that remain empty four years later, at $625,000 per unit. From SF's charter overhaul to nonprofit contracts built on undisclosed LLCs, California's governments are hemorrhaging public money through systems that seem engineered to avoid accountability.
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.
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.
They are accused of harvesting grandma's ballot, pocket $777K salaries, and wield incredible political power in San Francisco. All on your tax dollars.
BART knew about the encampment, had legal authority to clear it, and asked Oakland nicely. Then it burned.
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.
Forbes celebrates her as history's greatest giver. But without stewardship, the outcomes are spotty at best.
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Instead of fixing endemic graft, overtime abuse, and union-protected waste, they're holding your commute hostage for a November tax bailout.