RELATED: YIMBY leader Sonja Trauss dropped by the podcast last fall to discussed the struggle to house folks in California:Ĭalifornia law enforcement turns to mental health clinicians on toughest 911 calls - Alexei Koseff, CalMattersįor years, advocates for criminal justice reform have sought to increase the presence of mental health professionals in police responses. This is really interesting: Could the call for tiny homes and other quick-fix structural solutions for California’s housing and homelessness crises actually create a scourge of slums around the state? Kang persuasively argues that temporary housing at high levels of density-such as that proposed in San Francisco and other cities with unhoused populations in the thousands-is a dangerous and unsuitable substitute for building permanent affordable housing. The Slums of California - Jay Caspian Kang, NY Times (gift article) (At least until the courts get involved.) This is fascinating stuff! Consider California the final frontier of vice-and 2023 the year the frontier is settled. sports betting markets,” says a lawyer sizing up the political battle royale to come: Card rooms, tribal casinos, racetracks, and online betting sites like FanDuel and DraftKings all have a stake in the outcome, with some interests ready to drop hundreds of millions of dollars for an outcome that fortifies their position in the gaming firmament. This fall, voters will have a chance to approve sports betting in California, likely clearing the way for gamblers to legally wager on contests already open to bets in 33 states and Washington, D.C. The 'Holy Grail' of gambling could break American sports betting wide open - Jeremy B.
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(Photo: Baishampayan Ghose / CC BY-SA 2.0) Moreover, it persuasively gets to the core of the issue: “The experience in California simultaneously speaks to the need to take care in crafting public policy and the need to radically overhaul a failed experiment in direct democracy.”Ĭoming soon to a casino near you? Sports betting in California is at the core of a major ballot battle shaping up this fall. If you’re one of the judicious few who is quietly thinking to yourself, “Can’t we just save it for the next financial crash?”, here is the clearest article I have yet read explaining the wonky and self-defeating reasons why we have to spend it. And you may have read or heard the myriad suggestions for spending that money- pay back the feds (my vote for one half), spend it on schools (my vote for the other half), give some of it to car owners to help with gasoline costs (whatever), or just give everyone a tax refund (I won’t say no). You may have read or heard that California is awash with a budget surplus- $40 billion to $50 billion, by some counts.
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Meanwhile, I hope you'll consider checking out some of these nifty California stories if/when you are so inclined:Ĭalifornia Has Too Much Money in its Budget - David Dayen, The American Prospect (free registration required)