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Burden to hit 2030 target will fall especially hard on MPOs if cap-and-trade program goes away.

Peter Navarro ran for mayor of San Diego on anti-growth ticket back in the 1990s. Now he's one of Trump's most visible economic advisors.

A new crop of SoCal coastal slow-growth ballot measures is deja vu all over again. And current state policy isn't enough of a counterweight.

Jerry Brown's the only person who can take it on. And it's his last chance.

Amid all the alarming news about housing in California, here’s the one piece of information that really stands out for me: The average home price in the United States is about $180,000. The average home price in California is about $440,000. Not just in San Francisco, or Oakla

Medical marijuana in California may be a pretty intense battleground, but at the same time, to mix metaphors, it usually looks like a policy cul-de-sac. Advocates of access to medical marijuana are generally single-issue folks who don't care much about any other local issue. And

So, why does a court ruling on a medical marijuana ban in Upland affect the Chargers ability to build a new stadium in San Diego? For the same reason that construction of a Wal-Mart in Sonora affects the Rams ability to build a new stadium in Inglewood, which is: The appare

Now that comprehensive legislative reform of the California Environmental Quality Act seems unlikely, all eyes are turning to the California Supreme Court - if not for reform, then at least for clarity that will make the world of CEQA a little simpler, a little cleaner, and a lit

A couple of weeks ago, the satirical newspaper The Onion reported that the City of San Francisco was looking to relocate because its current location had become too expensive. Funny though this was, I expected the follow-up story to focus on the economic development incentive pac

Everybody always loves to complain about the California Environmental Quality Act, but despite all the complaining we don't now much about how effective it really is and what all the CEQA activity adds up to.

Love 'em or hate 'em, those litigators at the Center for Biological Diversity are the best in the business. Seems like they always find a way to win.

California is full of prime infill development locations, but it's also full of freeways. And more often than not, the two go together.