by jpitney | Aug 3, 2023 | Bipartisanship, California Politics, Civility
At LAT, Mark Z. Barabak writes of the unlikely friendship of Democatic Rep. Ami Bera and Republican operative Rob Stutzman: It helped that Bera tends toward the center-left, with a business-friendly bent. (“Organized labor does not like Bera and neither do we,” the...
by jpitney | Jul 25, 2023 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Newspapers
Michael Sainato at The Guardian: The longest-running newspaper in southern California has ceased publication after filing for bankruptcy. The Santa Barbara News-Press has posted its last online edition after ceasing print publication about a month ago. The paper had...
by jpitney | Jul 11, 2023 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists
Alden, the infamous chop shop of American journalism, has taken The San Diego Union-Tribune: Will Huntsberry and Scott Lewis, the Voice of San Diego San Diego’s daily paper of record, the Union-Tribune, was sold by billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong and his family...
by jpitney | Jul 9, 2023 | California Politics, Housing, Texas
Marisa Kendall at CalMatters: Texas as a whole last year recorded a 28% drop in homelessness since 2012, while California’s homeless population grew by 43% over the same period. In Texas, 81 people are homeless for every 100,000 residents. In California, the rate is...
by jpitney | Jun 26, 2023 | California Politics
Benjamin Oreskes at LAT: The findings of a new poll from a consortium of local nonprofits aiming to take stock of the state’s mood point to a contradiction playing out across the Golden State: People are pleased by the bounty the country’s largest state had to offer...
by jpitney | May 24, 2023 | California Politics, Trade
Minho Kim at E&E: President Joe Biden is famous as a supporter and patron of passenger trains, but advocates hoping he would jump-start high-speed rail say his manufacturing policies will hinder the climate-friendly transportation. Biden’s strengthening of Buy...
