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Editorial

Editorial

| January 27, 2022 | 0 Comments

Local, local, local! A theme for us, as we start this New Year, is “local.” We shall focus on: maintaining your local newspaper (with your continued support); addressing the local issue of crime, which relates to local elections; and discussing local control of real estate and land use. Local newspaper This community newspaper remains very […]

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Alas, victory of SB 9 and SB 10 will no doubt be a pyrrhic one

Alas, victory of SB 9 and SB 10 will no doubt be a pyrrhic one

| September 30, 2021 | 0 Comments

One has to hand it to California state Sen. Scott Wiener. After years of failures in the face of fierce political and public resistance, he managed with Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins to drag SB 9 and SB 10 over the finish line just in time for Gov. Gavin Newsom, fresh from his victory […]

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On Preservation: They’re back! Spawn of SB50 lives on; the good, bad, ugly

On Preservation: They’re back! Spawn of SB50 lives on; the good, bad, ugly

| March 4, 2021 | 2 Comments

After the collapse of the California Senate’s 2020 Housing Package in November of last year, the seeds of a new attack on the will of Californians to determine their own local housing policy were planted at the end of the last session of the Legislature. The failure to pass SB902 was the third strike in […]

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