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Joe Guzzardi | Housing Crisis: Promises vs. Reality

For stumping political candidates, vowing to build affordable housing remains one of their biggest rallying cries. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris promised 3 million new housing units over four years, along

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Tom Purcell | All Hail the Heroic Hot Dog

July is National Hot Dog Month, a time to honor one of America’s most beloved, misunderstood and delicious foods. On July 4 alone, Americans consumed an estimated 150 million hot

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Danny Tyree | Can We Get a Handlebar on This?

“A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading,” blared a recent headline in “The Atlantic.” The article lamented the fact that the number of youngsters (ages 7 to 17) who report having

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Dan Walters | CEQA: Lawmakers Achieve Holy Grail

Jerry Brown once described reform of the California Environmental Quality Act as “the lord’s work” but he, like other recent governors, was not willing to invest enough political capital to