Labor Combines Old and New to Defeat Newsom Recall When the votes are counted tonight it will confirm that California’s labor movement led a remarkable grassroots campaign to defeat the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom Faced with early polls showing
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Three Strategies Moving Forward California’s move last week toward ending exclusionary single-family zoning raises the question: what should cities do next to increase housing? SB 9 allows duplexes, and SB 10 makes it easier for cities to upzone for up
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This piece first appeared in Streetsblog USA A new governor — any new governor — could really muck up things that are already mucked up. The current narrative about the recall election in California goes something like this: It’s likely,
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CA Progressives Split Over SB9 and SB10 As Californians focus on the Newsom recall, COVID, and wildfires, the state’s worst in the nation housing crisis persists. Yet one of the two big remaining bills to boost housing production—SB9 — faces
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Will CA Follow Florida and Texas on COVID? My story last week —- “Don’t Let the Insurrectionists Win: Urgent Action Needed to Defeat Newsom Recall”— coincided with others raising alarms over California’s September 14 recall election. Voters are realizing it’s
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Boosting Voter Turnout for September 14 Election “Eighty percent of Republican registered voters said they were absolutely certain to vote, compared with only 55 percent of Democrats and about half of independents.”— UC Berkeley IGS/Los Angeles Times poll When California
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Oakland Becomes National Model on Stadiums, Police Reform When people discuss the nation’s best city councils, Oakland has not traditionally shown up on their bingo cards. Prior Oakland City Councils had a member who assaulted a former Black Panther leader
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Report Highlights Need for CA to Pass AB 854 The  Coalition for Economic Survival (CES) and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project released an update of their Los Angeles Ellis Act eviction map, showing that 27,372 rent stabilized affordable units have been
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