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THOMAS D. ELIAS Around California, bureaucrats on a large scale have not yet begun to recognize that the solution to the stateâs housing crisis has been at hand from the moment the coronavirus pandemic struck. All it should take is for some of them to venture outside their ivory tower homes and offices to read the vacancy signs on countless office buildings where billions of square feet once occupied by cubicles and conference tables now sit derelict as many lessees reduce their rent payments while awaiting the end of their leases. In San Francisco, one-fifth of all office space now is vacant. That number will climb as white-collar workers continue operating from homes enabled by computerized virtual âcommutes.â ....
THOMAS D. ELIAS The entire recall campaign targeting Gov. Gavin Newsom has been built for months on the presumption that many, if not most, Californians are unhappy with how things are going, dissatisfied with their own lives and losing hope for a solid future here. This, goes the premise, will make them leap to change leaders barely a year before the next regular election would give them the same option anyway. Now come two university-level studies that bode very well for Newsom. Both conclude the mass âCalifornia Exodusâ that this stateâs Republican politicians steadily bemoan is largely a fiction and the vast majority of todayâs residents still believe in the California âdreamâ and has strong hope for the future. ....
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THOMAS D. ELIAS There are few companies in todayâs California so reviled as the three large privately-owned utilities that deliver electricity to most Californians. With good reason. The largest of them, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., convicted twice of killing its customers willy-nilly via preventable disasters in San Bruno and Paradise, now stands formally accused in 33 more felony counts of causing other losses and fatalities in Sonoma County fires. The other big private power companies, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric have also been found negligent and liable for billions of dollars of damage in huge wildfires covering thousands of acres in other parts of the state. ....