Investigative Reports

Bureaucratic Octopus Grabs Bay Area
JAN. 16, 2012 By DAVE ROBERTS Like a giant octopus grabbing helpless humans in a horror movie, a new bureaucracy is squeezing the Bay Area. One Bay Area is a plan to push Bay Area residents out of their cars and jam them into pack-and-stack high rises in the coming decades. The goal: cut gr...
Dogfight Over New 26th House District
  JAN. 8, 2012 By JOHN HRABE California's 2012 redistricting already is shaking up state and even federal politics. The candidates' dogfight for the new 26th congressional district could determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the U.S. House of Representatives after the Nove...
California Faces Decisive 2012
BY JOHN SEILER JAN. 4, 2012 It's fun to gloat about our great weather when calling freezing relatives Back East on New Year's Day. And some good things are keeping the sun shining this year. Silicon Valley's global technology dominance will continue in 2012. Despite the foolishness of the s...
RDAs Hoisted On Own Petard
DEC. 29, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT Believers in property rights and limited government should be thrilled that when the toughest threat to redevelopment arose in California, the biggest defenders of these agencies -- the League of California Cities and the California Redevelopment Association --...
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