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Opinion: How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything

“America can’t build anything,” my co-worker, a talented data scientist from China, remarked as we rode a BART train through a suburb of Oak...

Opinion: How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything

“America can’t build anything,” my co-worker, a talented data scientist from China, remarked as we rode a BART train through a suburb of Oak...

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How California’s New Fixed Utility Charge Got Its Sneaky Start in the Legislature

I received and paid my monthly electric bill from the Sacramento Municipal Utility District the other day. Dan Walters CalMatters Opinion ...

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Empowering Education: Join the Fight for California Kids’ Literacy

Dear Friends: The 21st Century Alliance has been at the center of the effort to pass one of the most important education reform bills of the...

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Newsom’s No New Taxes Pledge Upsets California Progressives

Just minutes after Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a revised state budget with billions of dollars in spending reductions on Friday, advocates fo...

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SF Unified Flirts with Insolvency. It’s Not the Only District in California.

State education officials are intervening to force San Francisco’s school system to clean up its financial mess: a chronic budget defi...

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Sustainable Farms Need to Come Together, Not Cast Blame Over California Methane Program

Re: “How California’s prized solution for methane gas is backfiring on farmers“ Simon Vander Woude Special to CalMatters Opinion I am a f...

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Will California Supreme Court Knock Anti-Tax Measure Off the November Ballot?

When California’s voters 46 years ago passed Proposition 13, its iconic property tax limit, they ignited a perpetual conflict over how much ...

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A Sustainable Future for Fresno: Rethinking Our Hydrogen Strategy

In a recent POLITICS 101 column, David Taub reported on the Fresno City Council’s approval of a hydrogen fuel contract without competi...

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Politicians Keep Shifting Blame as California’s Homelessness Crisis Worsens

Over the last half-decade, state government has spent about $24 billion to ameliorate California’s worst-in-the-nation homelessness crisis. ...

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California Schools Can’t Keep Pace with Utility Bills. Lawmakers Must Fix New Solar Rules.

Serving as a school board president requires a deep dedication to ensuring districts have the resources needed to provide every student with...

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Opinion: How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything

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