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Voter ID / Unifying School Districts

To Address Lamorinda School District Financial Challenges, We Should Consider Unification The communities of Lafayette, Orinda, Moraga, and the parts of...

The Price of Failure in Education

This is an excerpt from the forthcoming book from one of the speakers at our July 25th meeting. Gus Mattammal, a full-time educator for 22 years, owns...

Zoning Alone Cannot Explain Unaffordable Bay Area Housing

For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. – H.L. Mencken Abundance advocates and California YIMBYs believe that we can...

County Guaranteed Income Program a Misuse of Taxpayer Money

"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Our Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, feeling...

Water/Sewer Rate Hike, Urban Limit Line, and More

While we focused on the Acalanes Union High School District parcel tax measure this Spring (which was defeated), many other things have been happening around...

Acalanes Union Superintendent to Address CoCoTax at July Meeting

CoCoTax led the successful opposition to Measure T, a proposed $130 parcel tax that would have increased with inflation. The measure fell well short of the...

Contra Costa Assembly Member Undermines State Pensions

Assembly Member Anamarie Ávila Farías, who represents a large portion of Contra Costa County, is the co-author of a fiscally irresponsible pension measure,...