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...
by jpitney | Apr 22, 2023 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists
Dani Anguiano at The Guardian: In a seemingly long gone era – before the Trump presidency, and Covid, and the 2020 election – Doni Chamberlain would get the occasional call from a displeased reader who had taken issue with one of her columns. They would sometimes call...
by jpitney | Mar 27, 2023 | California Politics, Population
Hans Johnson and Eric McGhee at PPIC: During the height of the pandemic, the flows out of the state became so large that almost every demographic and socioeconomic group has experienced net losses. For example, California used to gain college graduates even as it lost...
