It’s recall fever in California, as yet another elected official is on the chopping block. This time, it’s San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin who’s up for recall. My guest is Richie Greenberg, who’s heading up the effort. He discusses why some San Francisco residents want Chesa out, and rising crime rates could be the…
Crime-Ridden San Francisco Streets Prompt Recall of DA Chesa Boudin | Richie Greenberg
In San Francisco, ‘A Fish Rots From the Head Down’
Commentary As a public servant who worked for 33 years in seven different San Francisco City and County departments and as a former elected city official, I can assure you that corruption and misuse of public trust does not happen unless it is either promoted by or overlooked from the top. The top in this…
California District Attorney Warns of Anti-Cop and Anti-Victim Agenda | District Attorney Todd Spitzer
Los Angeles and San Francisco are taking a relaxed approach to crimes, and California is reducing the sentences of over 70,000 inmates. My guest is Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, who also served as the chair of the California Assembly Committee on Prison Construction and Operations. He discusses a group of California’s district attorneys…
California Cities Rankings drop due to Housing Costs
May 14, 2021
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Commentary Three California regions were among 10 throughout the nation that fell most significantly in a recent ranking of 200 large metropolitan areas. The areas around Salinas, Santa Cruz and Oakland were among the regions that plunged furthest in The Milken Institute’s annual report. The “wooden spoon” went to Salinas in the central agricultural valley,…
All California Metro House Prices Are Up
May 12, 2021
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Commentary House prices were up significantly in all California metropolitan areas throughout the past year. The National Association of REALTORS (NAR) recently published its quarterly data for all of the median home prices for all of America’s metropolitan areas. It shows that all the California metro areas on its list saw home prices increase between…
Bay Area Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day
May 9, 2021
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SAN FRANCISCO—A truck with LED electronic billboards drives by, distinguishing itself from the rest of the city’s traffic. The colorful screens, which are mounted on three sides of the vehicle, continuously play videos of people doing slow-moving exercises. At the front, a flower-bordered sign reads: “Falun Dafa is Good.” Dan Ngo, a local Falun Gong…
Recall Petitions Pick Up Steam in California After Newsom Effort Sees Results
May 8, 2021
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Convicted murderers facing parole instead of life in prison, a rise in homeless encampments bringing danger to local residents, and failed public school policies: these are just a few reasons some Californians say they want to recall their elected officials. Since the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom successfully gathered enough verified signatures to qualify…
Blighted San Francisco Diagnoses Its ‘Perilous Trifecta’—and Bungles the Cure
April 30, 2021
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San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite, and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed. In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across the sidewalks,…
California Mayors Seek $20 Billion for Homeless Funding
April 29, 2021
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LOS ANGELES—Mayor Eric Garcetti joined a coalition of mayors from California’s 13 largest cities April 29 in calling on state officials to provide cities with $20 billion over five years to address the statewide homeless crisis. “This is the biggest crisis in California. We see it on our underpasses and overpasses, we see it under…
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Home Prices up 12 Percent Year-Over-Year
Commentary Home prices in the U.S. increased in value during the past year at the fastest pace since the end of the 2006 real estate bubble that led to the Great Recession. Standard & Poors (S&P) compiled an index of home prices using an analytic framework developed by economic sciences Nobel laureate Robert Shiller and…