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.
Film students can't finish movies. Professors curve the grades anyway. And states that 'lowered standards to be kind' betrayed their most vulnerable students.
Dean Preston championed Providence Foundation as a model partnership. Now two employees face fraud charges.
For years, the state bled $20M/month in EBT fraud using ancient systems. The fix took chip cards and AI—things we've had for a decade.
Even Gavin Newsom admits taxing billionaires will backfire. Europe already proved it. Why won't Sacramento listen?
The bill's architects say founders can fight the state for their money back. With interest. On hard mode.
SF nonprofits preside over overdose deaths while collecting billions. The city just renewed their contracts anyway.
San Francisco almost died from virtue signaling. The cure? Intellectual honesty—and the courage to speak it.
Newsom's mental health program spent $10.7M per person while California's judges cling to broken ideology.
In 2013, three pro sports teams and big dreams. In 2026, an empty stadium nobody will buy.
The progressive politician who blocked 495 homes now wants to run California's insurance market into the ground.