Santa Monica has dramatically increased traffic enforcement this year. But it required a new Police Chief, a new City Manager, and a lot of pressure from City Council. Ultimately this comes down to elected officials. They have to put pressure. Unfortunately, most don’t care.
mtswI've seen more people just straight-up run red lights in San Diego since Covid than I had in my entire life up to that point. There's essentially zero traffic enforcement in Southern California.
If San Mateo doesn’t like this proposal, San Mateo is welcome to pass its own more permissive ordinance which would allow for more height/FAR in exchange for lower lot coverage.
Stephen Jacob SmithSan Mateo’s first SB 79 project. I’m sorry but this is too much lot coverage. Even NYC’s tenement house act of 1879 did not allow 91% lot coverage. The building should be 50 ft. deep at most. You should not pack an FAR of 4.5 into five stories, this is terrible design and will lead to a backlash.
We really need to get going with the geoengineering. Time to pump lots and lots of sulfur into the air. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
Live Updates: Hundreds of Thousands Flee as Fires Rage in Spain and Francewww.nytimes.comA good signal that Karen Bass neither rides transit nor knows anyone who does because this is close to last on the list of wants for people who rely on Metro. Faster service, more frequent headways, cleaner buses and trains, less disorder, etc. That’s what is needed. Not this dumb slop.
Mayor Karen BassAs Chair, I’ll build a long-term financial plan to make Metro fare-free. I’ve fought for a world-class transit system my entire career because public transit should create opportunity for everyone.
Prop 45 polling at 73% has to make CA YIMBY re-evaluate the feasibility of a ballot measure, right? These numbers are nuts. www.mercurynews.com/2026/07/15/m...
Measure to overhaul California’s powerful environmental law draws 73% support in new pollRenters, young people, lower income households show strongest support for Prop 45; environmental groups, Jane Fonda oppose itwww.mercurynews.comI don’t understand why cities do stuff like this. Penny wise, pound foolish. Closing heavily utilized restrooms in popular public spaces is one of the loudest signals there is of ”we have no idea how to run an effective government“ www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/h...
Half of Mission Bay's restrooms now closed to the publicThirteen public restrooms in Mission Bay have closed as the City of San Diego continues implementing cost-saving measures mentioned in the fiscal year 2026-27 budget approved unanimously by the City C...www.nbcsandiego.comIt’s nuts that IZ is so oftrn politically necessary for upzonings. I understand that not everyone can say this, but those who can really need to just start calling out how stupid this is and how misinformed IZ supporters are. It’s the liberal equivalent of being an anti-vaxxer.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈Further, while IZ may be politically necessary to secure support for upzonings, it is still a tax on new housing that worsens overall affordability.
Yet another example of how “anti-zionism” has no relation to the person‘s views on Israel.
Henrythis disgusts me almost past my ability for words, the fact they can acknowledge he's fought for and expanded trans rights LGBT rights and still throw him out for what? he has every progressive position on Israel! throw him out because he is a Jew...
What this EIR led to was a massive widening of Lincoln and Jefferson boulevards. To protect the environment. Good stuff!
Joe CohenThis was the CEQA EIR for Playa Vista "We wanted a bulletproof EIR. Bulletproof EIR meant if you fired a bullet at one end of the document, it can't come out the other end" - LA City Councilmember Ruth Galanter
Bass is laser focused on incompetence and not solving problems whereas Nithya believes the purpose of public office is to deliver results for your constituents.
Ben PhelpsLATimes continues to disservice local politics coverage. Bass and Nithya are NOT aligned on many policies, at least the ones that the Mayor actually has control over. That's why she's running in the first place!!! www.latimes.com/california/s...
Yup. LA County is a machine and the machine very much likes things just the way they are. You need to break the machine for anything to get meaningfully better.
alex davisI suspect the main issue is that Karen Bass was endorsed by basically everyone. Most of city council, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Pelosi, Schiff, Padilla. LA County Dems. If basically every democrat says to vote for her, that's very persuasive to a lot of people! www.karenbass.com/endorsements
The goal isn’t to grow the union. The goal is to push up wages for current union members. Less hotel supply = higher hotel rates = higher possible wages for workers.
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰Can someone in the know illuminate me on why Unite Here et al’s strategy is to basically try to cap the number of hotels as opposed to like…measures to specifically unionize hotels?
Would Mamdani ever cross UNITE? I hope so - it would be a huge win for the city - but they’re a union that almost every Dem in the country is terrified of.
Stephen Jacob SmithHere’s an idea for Zohran Mamdani to create more jobs in NYC: he could ask Julie Menin and City Council to relegalize the construction of new hotels, which Bill de Blasio banned citywide as a parting gift to the hotel workers union on his way out of office in 2021 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...
Some of this is AI (rest of market has been flat) but mostly it’s because markets are smarter than them and they’re wrong.
Sky Marchiniit's certainly interesting to watch every single person in the oil industry repeat in a monotone “we are 3 to 6 weeks away from the worst energy crisis in history”, supply chain people with thousand yard stares, every single macroeconomist I know is benchmarking against 2008, etc and then meanwhile
Honestly this would be a great outcome.
Faizah Malik (she/her)If we lose that status, not only could LA be denied hundreds of millions of dollars in State funding to build housing, we also risk losing our local zoning discretion. Which would mean that LA residents would not have input on what gets built where. All that risk to kill one housing project!