SunZia, one of the world's largest wind power and transmission projects (3.5 GW), has started feeding power into California's CAISO. New wind generation records are now being broken every other day. The US should build on this clean energy leadership instead of abandoning it!

My wife finally finished her medical residency today. Five years, conquered. We are excited that she will become an attending internist and psychiatrist at UC Davis health at the end of this year.

WEDNESDAY: *If you live in Burbank* please show up and make public comment in support of a dedicated bus lane on Olive to make the NoHo-Pasadena BRT possible. Details: mailchi.mp/streetsforal...

there’s something about the Ice Blocks that just makes pedestrians want to wander easily across the street in the middle of the block. Whatever that thing is, I want that for nearly the entite rest of the grid.

one thing that went wrong in our political media culture is that journalists so deeply internalized a backwards version of 'the cover-up is the crime' they assume that anything that's being done out in the open is just 'a thing that happened' that needs to be subjected to the 'objectivity' standard

The rest of the state will get with the program eventually, but for now: Sacramento is *the* place to be in California

As a Sacramentan, I say: try and keep up

San Francisco has huge affordability requirements and no new building. Sacramento has no affordability requirements and saw a lot of post-pandemic development. I’ll give you a guess about the directionality of rents in these two places.

Severin Borenstein, an economist and researcher at the UC Berkeley Energy Institute at Haas, told lawmakers it could be another $1 to $2 more per gallon. "Unfortunately, that would be a crisis and completely out of control of the state of California," Borenstein said. www.kcra.com/article/cali...

Although I guess this is encompassed in Link21 regional rail concept

Just read that Steve Maviglio is trying to run a ballot measure to roll back the top-two/jungle primary in CA and return us to party primaries. Directionally good, but dude, why would you do that when you could also throw in multi member districts and proportional rep??

She's also wrong on the facts. America didn't "choose developers over people," we made it illegal to build housing in the places people want to live.

In CA, counties do much of the transportation investment project identification through their Congestion Management Agencies. These locally-generated projects are not required to relate to any transport network vision. Alameda County Supe districts effectively divide Oakland in three.

Man, I miss Delaine Eastin. We need her vision and urgency.

To give you a sense of the audience at the Ezra Klein California housing forum: It hasn't even started yet and commenters in the livestream already are calling for a Land Value Tax.

Wondering why CAHSR is taking so long? The City of Shafter (near Bakersfield) wants to build a new sprawl neighborhood on currently vacant land that high speed rail is supposed to be built on within the next 5 years. CAHSR needs enhanced land acquisition authority. www.kget.com/news/local-n...

Last night, Becerra published a full platform. It’s in depth and written by someone who understands the various debates in Sacramento. (If anyone wants to tell me who wrote it, I’m all ears!) Of course, this is coming just weeks before Election Day (7/10) www.xavierbecerra2026.com/priorities/h...

Even City of Sac Public Works Division staff would probably cringe upon seeing this

I’d pretty reluctantly talked myself into Steyer, but this has me seriously reevaluating www.xavierbecerra2026.com/priorities/h...

from the nation that brought you "minimum lot size"... comes a new land use requirement...

As someone who deeply loves coffee, getting to live in Sacramento in the 2010s and 2020s has been a real treat. The coffee scene in this city punches way above its weight.

Appreciate the Super Bowl comparison

CAISO posted its summer assessment for this year. Our grid is well-prepared for planned-for levels of risk for this summer. Extreme events like wildfires and the hottest of hot days across the western interconnection can always risk taking us over the edge, though. www.caiso.com/documents/20...

Asm. Catharine Baker used her budget leverage in 2017/2018 to force the re-allocation of hundreds of millions in tax money from BART to a completely new JPA - which is basically just AECOM in a trench coat.

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Because California’s income tax is so progressive a family of four making $100k only pays about $1000 in income tax right now (when the renters credit, dependent credit, and standard deduction are factored in). The cutoff for a family of four to pay any tax now is $77k.

Did anyone else besides this guy try to do the math on Katie Porter's (and Steve Hilton's) proposal to exempt Californians' first $100k of income from state income taxes? I.e., how much of a budget hit would this be?

Inbox: YIMBY Action endorses Tom Steyer for CA gov. @yimbyaction.bsky.social

Even in Sacramento, amid hegemonic YIMBYism, we must fend off staff efforts, and (ironically) the efforts of the consulting firm that coined "missing middle," to impose such massing controls on our missing middle ordinance, motivated by an aesthetic theory of NIMBYism.

How little do you have to know about housing politics in California to believe the California Association of Realtors et al are interested in housing abundance?

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I think wonky discussions of electricity market design can be fun and entertaining. If you agree, you’re the target audience of CAISO’s new podcast.

Extended day-ahead market 😎

Our revolution endorsing Tom Steyer is good, of the candidates with a shot I think he’s probably the best one, it reflects well on them and shows policy seriousness. All that said: it’s still pretty funny.

Check this out @calendow.bsky.social

If cops won't do their jobs to keep our streets safe, cameras will.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

There is nothing more important than keeping New Yorkers safe, and reining in super speeders will save lives. I am proud to support efforts in Albany to enable new tools like Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) in our fight for safe streets.

The change, one of many to hobble high-speed rail over the years, stemmed from good intentions. Now it’s another example of how politics warped the state’s marquee transit megaproject.

You want Americans to be poor so GM motors execs get rich.

Porter opens a question on "what is your vision for California" by saying: a growing California, but to do that, we need more housing. Good stuff!

Steyer: Speed up permitting, reform zoning, encourage modular construction, fund local government infrastructure. Good answer!

One of the greatest headlines ever made

Something that awakened and then radicalized me was seeing how motorists in Victoria's Fairfield neighbourhood routinely charged the crossing guards in front on my sons' elementary school. Blared horns at them. Even coming into physical contact. Did police do anything at all? No.

We need better infrastructure but part of me also thinks we just need to adopt a broken window policy wrt motorist lawbreaking. Our roads have become lawless in North America and the culture of driving has become intolerably reckless. We need a real crackdown to shift the public temperament.

If we look at resources vs outcomes, SCAG may be the worst planning agency in the world