In a recent podcast entitled “There is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk,” Ezra Klein talks about California’s failed project to build a high-speed rail line that runs the length of the state, connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles. The project was approved by the voters years ago but delays due to securing access to the route, lawsuits and regulations imposed on the project by the Obama Administration delayed construction and ballooned the cost. Klein talks about the US inability to do big things — like high speed rail— and contrasts that with high speed rail networks in China and Japan. The approved RTA projects that no longer have funds mirror what happened with California’s high speed rail line. He also contrasts the dismal number of affordable housing units built in California (the state with the biggest affordability challenges) and the number built it Texas. This is a very informative podcast and I suggest the Mayor and City Council and the RTA board listen to it.
I asked Democrats and Republicans and didn’t find anyone who planned to vote for 414. Definitely, having an erratic president who is cutting programs, firing hardworking employees, tanking the stock market (and our 401k retirement accounts), threatening social safety net programs, canceling allies, fueling a global trade war and promising higher prices and a recession didn’t help the sales tax proposal. Like it or not, Trump is forcing a new world order on multiple levels. Raising sales tax is an outdated solution. We need new strategies for a new world order.
Laughs on me! I thought the issue of permitting for food distribution in parks was about safety for HOMELESS people! No, its for safety of neighbors to the park. I am about 5 blocks from santa rita park and know the issue. As i dont live right on the park, i dont feel i have a right to comment on the safety issues ( but my neighbors, usually liberal and extremely good hearted are not very pleasant about it when it comes up on our neighborhood list). From where i sit though the permitting issue is some truly byzantine "solution" to the citys problem, which appears to be OUR unhappiness and not services for unhoused folks. Ask yourself again why 414 tanked when the city is more interested in policing and surveillance to " protect" neighbors from unhoused people than it is in trying to serve unhoused people's needs. I invite you to come on over to santa rita to see the amount of stuff people have and see if walking down to casa maria would work for them? The nurse in the story could not be more correct. And on that same note, "starter homes" for investors? Hobbs should be fighting to get ALL of them to go to actual "starter"-- people, that is, not profit makers.
I think there's a huge gulf between people who follow the news and have some understanding of how complex government and societal problems are and people who aren't really paying attention. A lot of the no on prop 414 content seemed overly simple at best or misleading at worst.
Knocking doors for my campaign, I heard from a number of people (the few who even knew about 414) who would cite some of the "no" talking points but didn't really understand everything that was in 414. At the same time, many people told me that the homeless/unhoused issue was one of their top concerns.
In a recent podcast entitled “There is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk,” Ezra Klein talks about California’s failed project to build a high-speed rail line that runs the length of the state, connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles. The project was approved by the voters years ago but delays due to securing access to the route, lawsuits and regulations imposed on the project by the Obama Administration delayed construction and ballooned the cost. Klein talks about the US inability to do big things — like high speed rail— and contrasts that with high speed rail networks in China and Japan. The approved RTA projects that no longer have funds mirror what happened with California’s high speed rail line. He also contrasts the dismal number of affordable housing units built in California (the state with the biggest affordability challenges) and the number built it Texas. This is a very informative podcast and I suggest the Mayor and City Council and the RTA board listen to it.
I asked Democrats and Republicans and didn’t find anyone who planned to vote for 414. Definitely, having an erratic president who is cutting programs, firing hardworking employees, tanking the stock market (and our 401k retirement accounts), threatening social safety net programs, canceling allies, fueling a global trade war and promising higher prices and a recession didn’t help the sales tax proposal. Like it or not, Trump is forcing a new world order on multiple levels. Raising sales tax is an outdated solution. We need new strategies for a new world order.
Laughs on me! I thought the issue of permitting for food distribution in parks was about safety for HOMELESS people! No, its for safety of neighbors to the park. I am about 5 blocks from santa rita park and know the issue. As i dont live right on the park, i dont feel i have a right to comment on the safety issues ( but my neighbors, usually liberal and extremely good hearted are not very pleasant about it when it comes up on our neighborhood list). From where i sit though the permitting issue is some truly byzantine "solution" to the citys problem, which appears to be OUR unhappiness and not services for unhoused folks. Ask yourself again why 414 tanked when the city is more interested in policing and surveillance to " protect" neighbors from unhoused people than it is in trying to serve unhoused people's needs. I invite you to come on over to santa rita to see the amount of stuff people have and see if walking down to casa maria would work for them? The nurse in the story could not be more correct. And on that same note, "starter homes" for investors? Hobbs should be fighting to get ALL of them to go to actual "starter"-- people, that is, not profit makers.
I think there's a huge gulf between people who follow the news and have some understanding of how complex government and societal problems are and people who aren't really paying attention. A lot of the no on prop 414 content seemed overly simple at best or misleading at worst.
Knocking doors for my campaign, I heard from a number of people (the few who even knew about 414) who would cite some of the "no" talking points but didn't really understand everything that was in 414. At the same time, many people told me that the homeless/unhoused issue was one of their top concerns.