by jpitney | Apr 29, 2025 | California Politics, Public Service
Megan Myscofski at CapRadio: 916 Ink is a Sacramento nonprofit that provides reading and writing tutors to local students. Executive Director Ian Hadley says AmeriCorps volunteers make up just over half of its workforce, but he received a notice Sunday night ending...
by jpitney | Apr 28, 2025 | California Politics, Economic Policy
Allysia Finley at WSJ: California is losing jobs—54,800 during the first three months of this year. Valero this month announced plans to close a major refinery, portending gasoline shortages and price spikes. Insurance and electricity rates are soaring. Fifty-four...
by jpitney | Apr 23, 2025 | California Politics, Economic Policy, Trade
AT LAT, Malia Mendez reports: [A trade war} “could devastate Southern California’s nearly $300-billion trade and logistics industry in the coming years, according to a Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. report released Tuesday. The report,...
by jpitney | Apr 21, 2025 | California Politics, Local Government, Los Angeles
Grace Toohey at LAT: The fire “brought to the forefront the issues of us being unincorporated; in some ways it did put us at a disadvantage,” said Darlene Greene, a member of Altadena’s town council, which can pass along concerns or recommendations to Los Angeles...
by jpitney | Apr 15, 2025 | California Politics, Crime, Transportation
Robert Leiwis at CaMatters: Because California has no centralized court system and records aren’t online, we then traveled to courthouses up and down the state to read through tens of thousands of pages of files. Once we had defendants’ names and other information, we...
by jpitney | Apr 4, 2025 | California Politics, Homelessness, Housing
The High Cost of Producing Multifamily Housing in California Evidence and Policy Recommendations Jason M. Ward, Luke Schlake https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3743-1.html In this report, the authors present analyses of production cost differences among...
