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America’s Streets Are Not Shelters: Time to Rethink Homelessness Policy

August 12, 2025 2:45 amAugust 12, 2025 2:46 am

Walk through any major American city today—San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle—and you’ll see the same troubling pattern: sidewalks turned into encampments, public parks overtaken by tents, and transit stations rendered unusable. This isn’t just a humanitarian crisis. It’s...

Is Healthcare a Human Right?

February 5, 2025 3:00 pmFebruary 5, 2025 3:01 pm

Is Healthcare a Human Right? My answer, having been a general surgeon for 45 years is hell no! My healthcare is a personal obligation, and I am 100% responsible for how I take care of myself. And that is your...

From the Cheap Seats: Liberating Local Government

July 8, 2024 6:32 amJuly 8, 2024 10:19 am

A recent decision of the United States Supreme Court has important implications for localities in California trying to address the problem of homelessness. With a 6-3 majority in the case of City of Grants Pass v. Johnson the high court...

New HUD Report Shows U.S. Homelessness Increases – As Do the Budgets of the Responsible Agencies

December 16, 2023 9:04 amDecember 18, 2023 9:10 am

Despite spending untold billions on the homeless, we now have 653,000 homeless people in the United States – 70,650 more than last year, a 12 percent increase, House and Urban Development (HUD) announced Friday in a new report. Homelessness would...

Dear Parents Across America: Keep Your Children Away From San Francisco

July 22, 2023 2:55 amJuly 22, 2023 7:53 am

Dear Parents Across America: Keep your child away from San Francisco. Parents, does your child seek refuge from criticism over their drug use, suffer from a mental disability or do they simply want to live “off the grid,” free from...

The Cesspool Politics of Los Angeles

November 2, 2022 11:30 amNovember 2, 2022 10:51 am

In less than two weeks, voters in Los Angeles will have the opportunity to select a new mayor and nine of the 15 members of the city council. A positive outcome is unlikely. The cards are stacked. It’s reasonable to...

It’s Time to Look to Sacramento County for Responsibility of Region’s Growing Homeless Crisis

October 28, 2022 10:38 amOctober 30, 2022 2:57 pm

Sacramento County’s 2022 homeless count reported a 67 percent rise in the unsheltered population since 2020. The numbers, not experienced by our neighbors in Yolo (13.9 percent) or Placer counties (under 1 percent), reflect policy failures. Even Los Angeles (4.1...