SACRAMENTO, CA – The lead climate regulator of California has been challenged in multiple lawsuits over recent adjustments ...

On Wednesday, May 22, 2024, I finally left San Quentin State Prison, finally left East Block, and the notoriety of Death Row. I had transpacked nine weeks earlier, living out of the two boxes of ...

LOS ANGELES, CA – Judge Lana S. Kim of the Los Angeles County Superior Court Airport Courtroom this week told an accused, who ...

UNION CITY, CA – CBS news reported two BART police officers pulled over a woman who they believed was doing the illegal ...

On Saturday the Washington Post ran a full-length news analysis on an issue that is becoming critical locally: “Why so many Americans prefer sprawl to walkable neighborhoods” (link). The answers could ...

Davis, CA – Davis voters supported Measure Q with 64.2 percent of the vote despite a vigorous campaign in opposition. The City remains steadfast in its estimate that the tax will generate roughly $11 ...

LOS ANGELES, CA — New Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, since Dec. 11, Variety reported, has removed two ...

This week, PPIC (Public Policy Institute of California) put out a report on “Three Decades of Housing Challenges in the Golden State.” As Hans Johnson and Eric McGhee note, “While California’s housing ...

On Wednesday, the San Francisco Chronicle made an interesting observation that New York City just passed a plan “to encourage the construction of 82,000 units over the next 15 years,” with Mayor Eric ...

My article earlier this week on the PPIC report led to an interesting exchange over Measure J – and let’s face it, many housing discussions in Davis have Measure J as the background. Richard McCann: ...

I first got my hands on the book Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2007), by stealing it from the ‘hot trash’ cart I was ...