Elias: Desalination to help solve California’s water problem inevitable
Though the process is not without problems, the state needs more desalination plants if its population level and droughts persist.
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Elias: California has overreached, dictating local development not its place
Largely anonymous Sacramento officials know little to nothing about most cities that they're deciding future of.
Elias: High court election ruling may backfire due to states like California
Letting legislatures draw Congressional district lines however they want could erase the House of Representatives' GOP majority.
Elias: CPUC’s responsiveness still in doubt despite budging on solar
The California Public Utilities Commission looks likely to approve a compromise in their meeting next week but only after massive pushback.
Elias: Only consumers can penalize price-gouging car dealers
There’s no likelihood of a windfall profit tax on car dealers, even if one is imposed on oil companies.
![Do voters want more teachers living in their communities, even if it means a little more traffic and perhaps a few less parking spaces for others? That’s a major question soon to face California school districts, cities and voters as the state deals with a big teacher shortage, seeing 72% of school districts unable to […]](https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BRN-L-ELIAS-COL-1014-9-1.jpg?w=132 "Do voters want more teachers living in their communities, even if it means a little more traffic and perhaps a few less parking spaces for others? That’s a major question soon to face California school districts, cities and voters as the state deals with a big teacher shortage, seeing 72% of school districts unable to […]")
Elias: Peninsula fight over teacher housing may portend coming decade
Do voters want more teachers living in their communities, even if it means a little more traffic and perhaps a few less parking spaces for others? That’s a major question...
Elias: Big-time sports gambling a safe bet to hit California soon
The healthiest response from voters would be to reject Props. 26 and 27, but given the pent-up demand for sports betting in California and voters’ prior approval of things long...
Elias: Newsom’s 2024 presidential run may have begun with his recent ads
The governor is using his vast campaign war chest in a bid to become the Democratic Party's de facto national leader.
Commentary: California’s gun laws help quell tragedies, should be copied
While some Californians will die and have died in shootups like the 2019 Poway synagogue incident and a springtime Sacramento mass killing, residents of this state are about 25 percent...
Commentary: Why Newsom won’t OK Manson follower’s parole
What keeps the remaining Manson minions in prison now is that, as former Gov. Jerry Brown once put it while denying parole to a “family” member, “ In rare circumstances,...