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It’s Time to Look to Sacramento County for Responsibility of Region’s Growing Homeless Crisis

October 28, 2022 10:38 amOctober 30, 2022 2:57 pm

Sacramento County’s 2022 homeless count reported a 67 percent rise in the unsheltered population since 2020. The numbers, not experienced by our neighbors in Yolo (13.9 percent) or Placer counties (under 1 percent), reflect policy failures. Even Los Angeles (4.1...

Teacher Union Tantrums Now Count as Sick Days in California

January 26, 2022 1:37 pmJanuary 26, 2022 1:49 pm

It’s mid-January and winter break has come to an end. For more than 6.5 million children here in California, that means it’s time to go back to school. But in several major school districts across the state, schools remained closed the first week back — negatively impacting tens of thousands of students ready to learn and reconnect...

Newsom’s California is Not a Model for America – Especially on Homelessness

April 22, 2021 2:17 amApril 21, 2021 9:11 pm

Last week, Gavin Newsom bragged that California set up a national model to “solve homelessness” by converting hotels into homeless housing. He went on to declare that the Biden administration was working to implement the Newsom model across the country....