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.
Business and labor unite for the largest construction agreement ever—now they're calling California's bluff to break ground in 2026.
Californians voted for public safety. The state legislature decided their votes don't count.
The top 10% fund 76% of the state budget. Sacramento's answer? Chase them all away.
SF's state legislator asks Attorney General to probe missing trees instead of addressing homelessness, drug deaths, or housing.
A quiet amendment to the "Billionaire Tax" would force founders to go bankrupt or surrender control of their companies.
Per capita spending jumped from $4,350 to $12,940 while population grew just 11%. Where did all that money go?
First Assistant US Attorney promises 'massive' fraud prosecutions are just beginning. More arrests coming 'perhaps this month.'
California's most powerful environmental justice group thinks your right to own a home is a colonial relic. They're killing housing to prove it.