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State selling properties to raise cash

CalWatchdog Staff February 23, 2010

Feb. 23, 2010 By KATY GRIMES With the state of California selling off property to raise cash in the face of the $24 billion deficit, 11 office-building complexes are for sale, which will then be leased back to the state for 20

Faculty housing? No thanks, says Berkeley faculty Senate

The need for less expensive housing in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley has been so plain for so long that many of those on the outside of California looking in wonder why local governments, developers and voters can’t get

Are special interests blocking housing reforms? Or is public opposition?

Chris Reed May 21, 2019

The belief that California has a profound housing crisis took hold in the state’s media and political establishments in recent years after Census Bureau statistics showed the Golden State had the highest effective rate of poverty once cost of living

Efforts to limit pollution by building housing near transit centers meet stiff resistance

Chris Reed December 3, 2018

Over the past dozen years, the California environmental lobby has never seemed more powerful in the Legislature and in state government. Under Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown, the Golden State has passed bold laws and emerged as the global

California regulators approve plan to mandate solar panels on new homes

Drew Gregory Lynch May 11, 2018

California regulators on Wednesday approved a first-in-the-nation plan to mandate the installation of solar panels on all new homes beginning in 2020. The move was approved with a 5-0 vote by the California Energy Commission, in what supporters of solar energy

Report: Without housing fix, Silicon Valley will falter

Chris Reed February 28, 2018

Three times in the past 18 months, prominent journalistic organizations have questioned whether Silicon Valley has peaked. Leading off the bad-mouthing was the hometown San Jose Mercury News, which reported in September 2016 that tech growth had slowed in the

Airbnb clear to operate in San Francisco after compromise, but more fights loom

Chris Reed January 22, 2018

The issue of short-term vacation rentals continues to roil California cities large and small, but a major compromise in San Francisco agreed to by Airbnb and HomeAway has ended for now the fighting in the city that has the third

5 ways Donald Trump could block legal marijuana in California

Chris Reed February 27, 2017

The Trump administration has made clear that it will not look the other way when it comes to de facto state legalization of marijuana, as the Obama administration did. Instead, White House press secretary Sean Spicer last week said the

CalWatchdog Morning Read – December 16

CalWatchdog Staff December 16, 2016

Report: State building modernization plan lacks oversight, behind schedule Feds launch investigation into O.C. snitch scandal Loophole emerges in Prop. 54 transparency measure O.C. desal plant to test state’s environmental laws Online review protection law goes into effect Good morning!

Last CA nuke plant to close

James Poulos June 27, 2016

California regulators have made preparations to close Diablo Canyon, the state’s last remaining nuclear power plant, in a move quickly characterized as a turning point in the nation’s approach to energy production and use. “Pacific Gas and Electric Co. announced