Marc Joffe
Visiting Fellow at California Policy Center
Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute focusing on fiscal sustainability and transparency. Happily married for 17 years and counting!
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2 weeks ago |
pacificresearch.org | Marc Joffe
By Marc Joffe | May 1, 2025 California is the prime battleground between transportation innovation and legacy mass transit.
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2 weeks ago |
thevoicesf.org | Marc Joffe
With the closure of its last anchor store, Bloomingdales, the San Francisco Centre shopping mall is in its final death throes. The mall still has some smaller stores, but these are drawing little foot traffic. While Union Square may recover, it is less likely that the mall will. Nationally, the retail footprint is shrinking. And in the Bay Area, mall shoppers have more attractive options at Stonestown Galleria and in the suburbs where car access is easier and quality of life issues are fewer.
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2 weeks ago |
pacificresearch.org | Sal Rodriguez |Kerry Jackson |Marc Joffe
Join Manhattan Institute fellow andWall Street Journal columnist Jason Rileyfor a live PRI webinar discussing his new book,The Affirmative Action Myth (Basic Books),in conversation with Lance Izumi,senior director of PRI’s Center for Education. In , Jason L. Riley details the neglected history of black achievement without government intervention. Using empirical data, Riley shows how black families lifted themselves out of poverty prior to the racial preference policies of the 1960s and 1970s.
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3 weeks ago |
pacificresearch.org | Sal Rodriguez |Kerry Jackson |Marc Joffe
The sailing adventure will be followed by dinner at the Balboa Bay Resort and Club in Newport Beach, California. Reminisce Bill Buckley’s life and times with Ramesh Ponnuru, editor of National Review; Charles Kesler, editor of the Claremont Review of Books; and Peter Robinson, senior fellow of the Hoover Institution.
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1 month ago |
californiapolicycenter.org | Marc Joffe
California is the prime battleground between transportation innovation and legacy mass transit. While Silicon Valley is rolling out driverless taxis and testing flying cars, urbanists and transit unions are seeking more taxpayer funding to buttress money-losing train and bus systems around the state. If history is any guide, the new transportation technologies will ultimately replace the older ones, but billions of taxpayer dollars will be lit up in the process.
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It's odd that California State revenues have been strong this fiscal year despite signs of economic weakness, such as high unemployment and the film industry malaise. https://t.co/HCyGYUBqCe
In downtown San Francisco, 199 Fremont just changed hands for $111 million, about 59% below its 2020 selling price. That represents a big loss for CalSTRS which had a stake in the building but at least the downtown office is finding a bottom. https://t.co/2HADPMXlZd
At $1.1 billion, the new legislative office building in Sacramento, is only half as expensive as the mostly empty Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco.
Sacramento will soon be home to one of the most expensive buildings in the United States. Even though litigation against the project ended six months ago, California's Legislature is still not ready to talk about it. https://t.co/Ew15nCakOv