Steven Greenhut
SACRAMENTO — Are California lawmakers serious about dealing with its housing and homelessness crises? We’ll soon see once we gauge their reactions to a proposed new city in Solano County — a rural and exurban area nestled between Oakland and the…
SACRAMENTO — Several years ago, I was shopping in a Santa Ana big-box store when a nondescript young man asked the clerk to show him a video game system — probably a $200-to-$300 item — that was kept in a…
SACRAMENTO — After a shocking city hall scandal led to the resignation of Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu last year, the city commissioned an investigative report detailing what went wrong. The results — a remarkably thorough page-turner — were released this week….
SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as a defender of democracy as he prepares himself for a possible run for the presidency. In March, he launched a “Campaign for Democracy” and toured some Southern “red” states, where he vowed…
SACRAMENTO — If you find yourself at a libertarian gathering (not usually recommended) and are a mischievous sort who wants to start a squabble that might lead to fisticuffs, don’t raise the usual hot-button issues of, say, the wisdom of…
SACRAMENTO — One would never know from the new $310 billion state budget that California had been experiencing an enormous $32 billion deficit. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators touted all the spending in the new deal — including a…
SACRAMENTO — Years ago, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) warned attendees at a conference about the need to watch out whenever public officials claim to be doing something for the children. She was talking specifically about Los Angeles Unified School District’s eminent-domain…
Editor’s Note: This column was reprinted from author Steven Greenhut’s new Pacific Research Institute Free Cities Center book, Putting Customers First: Re-Envisioning Our Approach to Transportation Planning. One need only spend a little time on a transit-oriented social-media page or…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One of the oddest Twitter posts I’ve seen posted is a county map of California with every county — except for a few in the greater San Francisco Bay Area — as solid “red” where voters actually…
