SFUSD just voted 6-1 to adopt a new ethnic studies curriculum validated by a process with no defined passing threshold—and is now facing a Brown Act lawsuit the same challengers used to win a similar fight in 2021. Across San Francisco, a pattern is hardening: SFMTA quietly buried 365 promised affordable housing units that were never funded, SFO engineered a policy to exile Waymo from the main rideshare garage while protecting 800,000 monthly Uber and Lyft trips, and a Berkeley court blocked homeless encampment cleanup for 16 months even after rats tested positive for a tropical disease. These stories share a through-line—government institutions making commitments they don't intend to keep, shielding incumbents from accountability, and leaving the public to absorb the costs.
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.