Thomas Elias

Strong signs abound that this year will mark the end of the over-publicized “California exodus,” which saw this state lose about 340,000 persons in 2021 and 2022, a bit less...

Urban sprawl has been anathema to California housing planners for the last 10 years or so. As they passed law after law eliminating zoning for single-family residences and emphasizing high...

The more time goes by since the 2014 passage of California’s Proposition 47, the more it’s clear that voters blundered in approving the initiative’s setting an absolute $950 floor value...

If anything seemed like a lock, a sure thing for passage during last year’s state legislative session, it was recall reform. The need for changes in the way voters can...

A look at what homeless individuals suffered during the record-level intense rains of early February demonstrated for a second consecutive year the utter inadequacy of programs to help California’s approximately...

If Donald Trump, as seems likely after the first few Republican primary elections and caucuses, wins a third consecutive GOP nomination for president and then goes on to a November...

It was easy this month to understand why the University of California’s long-planned adoption of a high school ethnic studies course requirement for admission is stalled and may never materialize....

The press release made the so-called Delta Conveyance Project seem like a sure thing after the massive $16 billion project received its final formal state approval early in January. “Today...

For many years, California drivers and Republican politicians have blamed Democrats and high gas taxes for the huge difference in the price of gasoline here compared to other states. It...

So you think California has a serious property insurance crisis, with one company (State Farm) getting a 20 percent increase just as 2023 ended and others demanding even higher increases...