What Californians Can’t Afford to Miss in Prop 1 | Susan Shelley
“It’s being sold to the voters as treatment. But you’ve got $2 billion going into housing that can be for people who are still using hard drugs. If you have a building with, let’s say, 40 units, and 1...
1 Huhti 202444min
Former Homeless Reveals What Homelessness is Like in Sacramento | Matt King
‘It’s almost like we’re living in an open-air mental health facility. There are people walking down the streets; you don’t know if they’re going to shoot you, stab you, punch you, spit on you... And w...
30 Maalis 202455min
Are California Housing Mandates Ending Community Involvement and Character of Cities? | Amy Kalish | Lydia Kou
“The goal is to densify every town in the state. To densify it—so that‘d be walking around, not driving. In some places, it doesn’t work. But this whole policy has been applied as ’one size fits all' ...
22 Maalis 202449min
California Parents Are Afraid of Losing Their Kids | Erin Friday
“The school adopted my daughter’s new identity, which was a boy, changed her records to be male name, called her that in class. They told me I was unsafe. So they were safer for my daughter. This is a...
19 Maalis 202445min
Former Prison Guard Explains Why California Prisons Are Becoming Unsafe | Hector Bravo
“It is like working at a zoo, and they’ve opened up every single cage: to the bears, to the lions, to the panthers, to the giraffes, to the elephants. And you got the correctional officers like: “Oh m...
16 Maalis 202451min
Will California Lose Its Entrepreneurial Spirit as More Businesses Invest in Other States? | Marshall Toplansky
“Who is leaving? That’s probably the most worrying aspect of all of this. The people who are leaving are the most productive, what I call the seed corn of California—people who are going into family f...
14 Maalis 202446min
From US ‘Murder Capital’ to Zero Homicides: A California City’s Remarkable Rebirth | Paul Bains
“I remember that year; there was just so much shooting going on. Kids would sleep in bathtubs to avoid stray bullets.”Siyamak sits down with Pastor Paul Baines from East Palo Alto. He will share how h...
8 Maalis 202427min
Is California Still Leading the Nation? | Larry Elder
“In the last three years, we’ve had a net outflow of 1 million people. I don’t want to leave; I want to help turn the state around because I think sooner or later the voters are going to wake up, and ...
7 Maalis 202438min
