Sacramento lawmakers killed two bipartisan bills that would have made lobbyist letters public in real time—joining a separate move to shield taxpayer-funded immigration nonprofits from journalistic scrutiny under penalty of $4,000 fines. Together, the two stories reveal a Legislature that is actively blocking the tools citizens need to see how decisions get made. Meanwhile, recent reporting on SFMTA's phantom housing promises and a court-delayed disease outbreak in Berkeley show what that accountability vacuum costs in practice.
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.