by jpitney | Dec 26, 2024 | California Politics, Crime
Karen Garcia at The Los Angeles Times: The In-N-Out in Oakland earlier this year became the first location in the restaurant chain to be permanently closed, a decision the owner of the fast-food company recently doubled down on by blaming rampant crime, slow police...
by jpitney | Dec 24, 2024 | California Politics, Housing, Insurance
David Siders at Politico: Today, home values in California are more than double the national average, with high rents and low homeownership rates — and the number of homeless people is growing. In part because of devastating wildfires, insurance companies keep...
by jpitney | Dec 11, 2024 | California Politics, Taxes
Adam Hoffer, Jacob Macumber-Rosin at the Tax Foundation: California pumps up its gas tax the most at 68.1 cents per gallon (cpg), followed by Illinois (66.5 cpg) and Pennsylvania (58.7 cpg). The lowest gas tax rates are levied in Alaska at 8.95 cpg, followed...
by jpitney | Dec 9, 2024 | Bipartisanship, California Politics, Congress, Senate
Laphonza Butler spoke to Politico Playbook about her 13-month tenure as an appointed senator from California: I don’t believe Gov. Newsom was elected to be the governor of the resistance. I don’t believe Sen.-elect Schiff was elected to be the senator-elect of of the...
by jpitney | Dec 7, 2024 | California Politics, Housing
Hans Johnson and Eric McGhee at PPIC While California’s housing market has undergone tremendous changes over the years, with some aspects worsening in the last decade, the central problem—high housing costs—remains the same. On PPIC’s 30th anniversary, we take stock...
by jpitney | Nov 25, 2024 | California Politics
Melody Petersen at LAT: California is making so much solar energy that large commercial operators are increasingly forced to stop production, raising questions about the state’s costly plan to shift entirely to carbon-free sources of electricity. In the last 12...
