Thomas D. Elias
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Elias: California’s fentanyl death rate likely rising due to mislabeled pills
Counterfeit versions of the real thing are sometimes laced with impurities that can lead to other forms of toxicity. → Read More
Elias: California’s transit budget cut makes sense in light of numbers
The reduction will affect a small share of the state’s population until ridership returns to anything near prepandemic levels. → Read More
Handicapping California’s 2024 Senate race, Adam Schiff is the early frontrunner – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Anyone betting just now would likely expect a November 2024 runoff between Schiff and Porter, unless a yet-unknown and -undeclared Republican rises up soon to knock one of the Democrats out of the … → Read More
Elias: Six other states ganging up on California over Colorado River water
Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming officials want Californians to cut water use more than they would. → Read More
Mass transit merits the budget cut it may get in California
Californians are not as enthusiastic about either light or heavy rail commuting as their elected lawmakers. → Read More
Elias: California’s slavery reparations plan won’t sell if it lacks credibility
The state’s lawmakers and voters are likely to be more sympathetic to some forms of restitution than others. → Read More
Elias: California’s slavery reparations plan won’t sell if it lacks credibility
The state’s lawmakers and voters are likely to be more sympathetic to some forms of restitution than others. → Read More
Elias: Reconfigure California’s ‘fruit stops’ to check for illegal guns
Modifying state highway border protection stations built to keep out agricultural pests and diseases could be cheap and simple/ → Read More
Elias: Reconfigure California’s ‘fruit stops’ to check for illegal guns
Modifying state highway border protection stations built to keep out agricultural pests and diseases could be cheap and simple/ → Read More
A cautionary note for California’s reparations task force – San Bernardino Sun
California was never a slave state. → Read More
Not much would change in California if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action
But hundreds of universities in other states where affirmative action has long been a legal practice will likely to adopt practices like UC’s, making family wealth and education negative factors in… → Read More
Storms expose failures of California’s homelessness programs – San Bernardino Sun
No one deserves the misery inflicted on the homeless this winter. → Read More
California’s 2024 Senate race gets some clarity from Porter, Khanna
It’s still very early in this year of political positioning for some key California politicians, but already the field is clarifying for the upcoming contest to replace longtime Democratic United S… → Read More
California continues to usurp key powers from cities
All over California last fall, hundreds of the civic minded spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars running for posts on city councils and county boards. → Read More
Gavin Newsom can play pivotal role in California’s 2024 Senate race – Daily News
If he likes, Gov. Gavin Newsom can control this scene. → Read More
California fares well amid the national ‘Great Resignation’ – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
All this may be inconvenient for businesses, but it’s also providing bonanzas for many thousands of workers. → Read More
Los Angeles County voters send scofflaw sheriffs a statewide warning
If Villanueva’s loss and the easy passage of Measure A doesn’t tell other sheriffs they must enforce even laws they don’t like, it’s hard to see what might. → Read More
Sports gambling will be back on the ballot, and soon
The gaming folks have work to do if they want to milk the billions they seek to take from Californians → Read More
At last, some productive housing legislation
It took years for legislators and their union backers to see the obvious and take advantage of the housing solution created by pandemic-induced workplace changes. → Read More
The cancer of anti-Semitism at UC Berkeley Law
History repeatedly shows that when authorities leave anti-Semites unchecked, they often turn violent or murderous. → Read More