Is it right for San Francisco to provide free housing for homeless people who do illegal drugs in their taxpayer-subsidized homes?

Here in Oakland, we have less than a week before Barbara Lee is sworn in. We have a little more than six weeks—June 30, to be exact—before the City Council is required to approve the city’s budget for the next two years. As we all know, the current proposal—crafted by Kevin Jenkins—calls for huge cuts to OPD’s budget. Since Barbara Lee has stated that she fully supports those draconian cuts, and there’s no opposition to them on the City Council, we have to assume that OPD is facing a future where it will be impossible for them to keep us safe.

I wasn’t surprised when news outlets around the country yesterday reported that Gov. Newsom has urged California cities and counties to take “immediate action” to get rid of “dangerous and unhealthy [homeless] encampments.”

There’s no doubt that there’s an emerging national backlash against Trump. Polls show it. Prices continue to soar on almost everything, and will go even higher as his tariffs kick in. Every poll indicates that even Republicans are beginning to have their doubts. Trump’s, and Republicans’, response has been, “Trust our Dear Leader,” but when a trip to the supermarket is cardiac arrest-inducing, trust has no curative value to this rape of the consumers’ economic health.

On Saturday, at about 3:45 pm, I was walking across Grand Avenue at Webster. I had the streetlight in my favor, and I was in the crosswalk. Suddenly, I heard an enormous roar, and a mob of dirt bikers was coming at me. They blew right through the red light and came within inches of running me down. All the while, of course, they were doing wheelies and having a wonderful time.