Measure J, a growth control measure in Davis, California, is increasingly putting the city on a collision course with state housing law, and reforming it to align with state law and serve actual housing needs is the smarter path.
Governor Gavin Newsom has unveiled a new statewide initiative to provide local governments with clear guidance and legal tools to address homeless encampments swiftly and humanely, and has committed to giving every local government in the state the path forward.
American authoritarianism is a decades-old phenomenon, fueled by the expansion of executive power, economic inequality, and the political exploitation of national crises, and cannot be solely blamed on Donald Trump, but rather requires a dismantling of the systems that made him possible.
Former San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston has criticized Mayor Daniel Lurie's mass arrest strategy for failing to reduce overdose deaths, and is calling for a public health-centered model to be implemented instead.