SF News Gavin Newsom Trumpets Record California Tourism Spending; Critics Say It’s Just Driven by Inflation California Governor Gavin Newsom climbed atop the Golden Gate Bridge to tout the supposedly record-breaking $150 billion tourism dollars spent statewide in 2023, but cynics point out that may just be because of inflation-driven higher prices.
SF News State Audit Blasts California for Spending $24 Billion on Homelessness, But Not Tracking Whether Much of It Works A new report from the California State Auditor finds the state has spent $24 billion on homelessness since 2018, only to see things get worse, and dings the state for not keeping track of whether much of this money is even accomplishing anything.
SF News Trump Tries to Win Over California Republicans by Advocating Violence in GOP Convention Speech Friday Republican presidential nominee frontrunner and alleged criminal Donald Trump attacked California for its crime, forests, homelessness, and electric vehicles, while also complaining about Nancy Pelosi and alleged election fraud.
SF News Some Analysts Wonder If California Economy Is Barreling Into Recession A combination of inflation, high interest rates, and tech layoffs have some economists worried that a nasty California recession is brewing, though the downturn may be limited to commercial real estate landlords and people who made bank during the pandemic.
California PG&E Wants to Raise Your Monthly Bill by 16% Starting This Fall, Separate From This Winter's Sticker Shock Customers have likely seen and will continue to see significant increases in their bills this winter, to the tune of about a 32% spike.
SF News California May Lose a Congressional Seat After 2020 Census The loss of one Congressional seat doesn’t sound like much, but too low of a census count this year would also cost the state hundreds of billions of dollars in federal tax appropriations.
SF News Governor Calls For Presidential Declaration Of Major Disaster Following CA Winter Storms The State of California is one of emergency, Governor Jerry Brown declared yesterday: To bolster recovery efforts following January and February storms that brought damage in the form of power outages, floods, and
SF News 'Idaho Stop' Could Become Legal For Cyclists Statewide Under New Assembly Bill Bicycle advocates have long been pushing for the legalization of the so-called "Idaho stop" or "California roll" in which cyclists treat stop signs more as yield signs, only coming to a full stop
SF News California Could Be Overdue For A 100-Year Mega-Flood It may not be in the cards this year, but California has an extended history of mega-floods the likes of which the state has not seen since 1862, when about 40 days of
SF News When Did Ballot Initiatives Start In CA, And What Was The Longest Ever Ballot? Using a sixth sense? SF voters mark their ballots inside Columbarium, among remains of politicians, actors, friends pic.twitter.com/UIrupCsvyH— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) November 8, 2016 Direct democracy is now 105
SF News California Becomes First State To Pledge Minimum Wage Hike To $15/Hour (By 2022) Leading a charge that is expected to ripple across the country, California governor Jerry Brown and the state legislature struck a deal Monday to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 per hour
SF News Plastic Bag Manufacturers Ready To Delay, Undo California's New Bag Ban In a move that surprised no one today, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB270, aka "California's plastic bag ban" into law. Just as unsurprisingly, the folks who make plastic bags are pissed, and say
SF News The Current California Drought, Illustrated Are you more of a visual learner? Here's a dramatic graphic showing just how short on water the state of California is compared to just last week, and last year. That dark maroon
SF News Map Says There Are Hardly Any A's Fans In The Bay Area, Even In Oakland Although you see many A's caps around town and can't help but notice their green-and-yellow costumery while riding BART, this map says there are basically no A's fans in the Bay Area, not
SF News Tech Investor's Ballot Initiative Wants To Split California Into Six States Tech investor Tim Draper — a VC behind such brands as Skype and Hotmail — has a bizarre ballot initiative ready for consideration, one that would not only split California into six separate states but
SF News New Study Suggests Bee Colony Collapses Triggered By Fungicides As we've all been hearing for several years, honeybee populations in the U.S. and Europe are dwindling due to what's called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), and scientists and farmers have been at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Official Bête Wants France To Boycott Calif. Wines Because we aren't the only people silly enough to boycott other regions, an official in the land of baguettes poking through wicker bike baskets has urged his country to boycott California wines in
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Will Save California! The messiah Mark Zuckerberg is poised to save California and its impending financial ruin. More or less. How so? Facebook will have to pay so very many millions in taxes after the initial
SF News Rick Santorum Claims California Universities Are Ruining America Today at a campaign event in Wisconsin, Republican presidential hopeful and jellybean fan Rick Santorum attempted to demonize California for eroding the values of Heartland, America. Santorum, who also believes that Obama was
SF News Hey, Everyone Thinks California Sucks! A new poll, by an organization we can't endorse called Public Policy Polling, found that in a nationwide survey, California ranks dead last in a popularity contest of all 50 states. We do
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras To Go Underground In CA? When the state's foie gras ban goes into effect in July of 2012, California restaurants will have to pull the luxurious (yet allegedly cruel) item from their menus. Although producers claim it doesn't
SF News California Chortles as East Coast Overreacts to Earthquake Sweet payback for each time an East Coaster lambasted Californians for losing it over the slightest chill in the air, reactions to today's earthquake have ranged from the humorous to the bizarre. Especially
misc 47 Percent Rise In Latino Hate Crimes, Says Calif. Attorney General's Office While hate crimes against blacks, gays, and Jewish folks dropped in 2010, the California Attorney General's reports a jarring 47 increase in hate crimes committed against Latinos last year. SF Weekly reports that
SF News Passing the Ballot: Amazon.com Wants Californians to Vote on New Sales Tax Law A new law requiring online retailers to collect California sales tax from shoppers has stirred up controversy, and now Amazon.com Inc. is saying they are looking for voters to take the matter
SF News 26 Teachers Arrested in Sacramento While Protesting Education Cuts Hot on the heels of news that San Francisco USD will be laying off 139 educators at the end of the school year, comes a report from Sacramento that over two dozen teachers
