Sacramento lawmakers killed two bipartisan bills that would have required lobbyist position letters to be posted online in real time—blocking a reform already standard in ten other states. Meanwhile, a bill moving through the Assembly could expose journalists who report on taxpayer-funded immigration nonprofits to $4,000-per-violation fines, with no press exemption. Across California, from SFUSD's rigged curriculum review to SFMTA's phantom affordable housing to a leptospirosis outbreak courts blocked cities from cleaning up, the pattern is the same: government agencies making commitments they can't keep, obscuring accountability, and insulating themselves from oversight.
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.