Sacramento killed two bipartisan lobbying transparency bills without a hearing, while a separate bill that could expose journalists who cover taxpayer-funded immigration nonprofits to $4,000-per-violation fines is now one committee vote from the Assembly floor. Across California, the same pattern keeps surfacing: SFMTA promised 465 affordable units it never had funding for, SFUSD approved an ethnic studies curriculum through a review designed to rubber-stamp it, and Berkeley courts blocked a disease-ridden homeless encampment cleanup for sixteen months. The throughline is governments and institutions that resist accountability while the costs land on everyone else.
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.