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Housing Costs Are Making Bay Area Residents Reconsider

Bay Area residents are unhappy with their current economic lot and anxious, despite a strong overall economy, according to a poll released Sunday by the Bay Area Council. While California, with its vast housing market, suffered grievously during the Great

Californians consider moving due to rising housing costs, poll finds

Drew Gregory Lynch September 21, 2017

A majority of voters in California have considered moving due to rising housing costs, according to new findings from the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, with 1 in 4 saying that if they moved it would be out of the state

San Francisco voters may have chance to overturn vaping ban

Steven Greenhut August 2, 2017

SACRAMENTO – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted in June to make the city the first in the country to impose a total sales ban on flavored tobacco products, as similar ordinances spread across the Bay Area. It’s also

Do new Bay Area tobacco bans promote health or erode harm reduction?

Steven Greenhut May 2, 2017

Restrictive new anti-tobacco ordinances are spreading across the San Francisco Bay Area like a cigarette-sparked wildfire. Northern California cities already have some of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the nation, but a raft of new laws and proposals take aim

CalWatchdog Morning Read – October 19

CalWatchdog Staff October 19, 2016

Air quality regulator fees fund fancy trips as consumer costs increase Four things to watch in final debate Federal prosecutors seek five years against former state senator in corruption case Four ways to help Orange County’s homeless Federal labor ruling

California’s roads improve, but still are troubled according to new study

Steven Greenhut September 27, 2016

SACRAMENTO – Despite its well-documented inefficiencies and travails, California’s Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has managed to improve the state’s system of roads, bridges and freeways incrementally in recent years, according to a newly released annual survey of state highway systems

Bay Area making life difficult for tech firms

Steven Greenhut August 9, 2016

SACRAMENTO – In most of the country, a region’s “big” industry – think automotive companies in Michigan’s heyday, the oil business in Houston and entertainment in Los Angeles – is treated with deference by locals. Sometimes that attitude morphs into

CalWatchdog Morning Read – May 24

CalWatchdog Staff May 24, 2016

Bay Area court stops suspending driver licenses over unpaid fines SF to look at its sanctuary city policies Bernie and Hillary come to SoCal State Senate votes to ban private communications with Coastal Commission Under pressure from civil liberties

Bullet train shifts focus from SoCal to Bay Area

James Poulos January 29, 2016

California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project has hit a new snag, likely shifting its proposed construction strategy away from the Southland-first plan it had initially adopted. “The state rail authority is studying an alternative to build the first segment in the

Some CA government jobs proving tough to fill

Chris Reed October 29, 2015

The cost of housing has been an increasingly hot topic in California political circles since late 2012. That’s when a new Census Bureau measure of poverty debuted, one that included the cost of living. It showed the Golden State had