California's legislature killed two bipartisan bills that would have made lobbyist influence letters publicly visible in real time — a reform already standard in at least ten other states — while the state's nonpartisan analyst confirms spending has outpaced revenue by 10 points, producing structural deficits of $20–30 billion annually. Meanwhile, Sacramento is weighing legislation that could expose journalists covering taxpayer-funded immigration nonprofits to $4,000-per-violation fines, even as auditors' findings of billions in pandemic-era fraud go largely unaddressed. What connects these stories: a pattern of legislators protecting their own operations from scrutiny while the state's finances deteriorate.
The numbers prove SF is the undisputed capital of innovation. So why are California politicians hellbent on driving it away?
The progressive politician who blocked 495 homes now wants to run California's insurance market into the ground.
Founders are already planning their escape routes. YC's strategy: leave after Series B, go distributed. "Suboptimal, but we know how to do this."
She wants to seize private property, calls homeownership 'white supremacy,' and ran crying when asked about her mom's $1.6M home.
San Jose's mayor is weighing a run—and his track record of actually fixing homelessness has founders begging him to go statewide.
The Governor touts a 9% drop in "unsheltered" homelessness. The actual numbers tell a very different story.
Half of California's billionaire wealth has fled the state—and the wealth tax isn't even on the ballot yet.
San Jose's mayor goes on national TV to warn Sacramento that their wealth tax scheme will backfire spectacularly.
The YIMBY ringleader is running for Congress on housing wins, tough-on-crime bills, and a decade of fighting for algebra.