Max Taves
Journalist at Freelance
Deputy Opinion Editor at The Mercury News
Deputy Opinion Editor @bayareanewsHQ (@mercnews, @eastbaytimes). Columns in 20+ dailies across US. Ex-columnist @WSJ & @CBSi-@CNET & reporter @LAWeekly.
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4 weeks ago |
mercurynews.com | Max Taves
Where does the buck stop on homelessness in California? Good luck answering that. Responsibility for building, sheltering and treating the Golden State’s 187,000 homeless is as elusive as leprechaun gold. Californians, across political parties and geographies, support policies to help the state’s homeless.
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1 month ago |
mercurynews.com | Max Taves
San Jose calls itself the “Capital of Silicon Valley” and was ranked by WalletHub this year as the second happiest city in the United States. As San Jose leaders look to change that, voters in District 3, which covers the downtown core, will be filling an unexpected City Council vacancy in a special June 24 runoff election.
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1 month ago |
mercurynews.com | Max Taves
It’s getting warmer by the day here in Silicon Valley, and yet there’s a growing chill descending on its incubation chambers. Over the last 70 years, Bay Area universities used their freedom and funding to make America great. Stanford University and UC Berkeley, leveraging their educational autonomy and federal investments, have trained the brains directly responsible for the technology underlying U.S. military, economic and scientific dominance.
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1 month ago |
record-bee.com | William Roller |Max Taves
By Max TavesIt’s no mystery why Californians keep losing their homes to wildfires. They keep building in the most flammable areas. State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is doing his part to keep it that way. His new regulation will effectively force ratepayers and taxpayers across California to subsidize the cost of living in predictably combustible corners of the state. And, most troubling of all, it will encourage more construction in those risky regions.
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2 months ago |
mercurynews.com | Max Taves
It’s no mystery why Californians keep losing their homes to wildfires. They keep building in the most flammable areas. State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is doing his part to keep it that way. His new regulation will effectively force ratepayers and taxpayers across California to subsidize the cost of living in predictably combustible corners of the state. And, most troubling of all, it will encourage more construction in those risky regions.
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“Where does the buck stop on homelessness in California?” I ask @EastBayTimes today. “Good luck answering that. “Responsibility for building, sheltering and treating the Golden State’s 187k homeless is as elusive as leprechaun gold.” @CAgovernor must fill the void. Op-ed:
Taves: No one’s in charge. Newsom must fill California’s homelessness leadership vacuum https://t.co/JzZDQcICeb
“Tackling homelessness has pit California against itself,” I argue in today’s @mercnews. “Mayors blame other mayors, who blame county supervisors, who blame mayors and the governor, who, in turn, blames mayors and supervisors.” @GavinNewsom must take charge. My op-ed:
Taves: No one’s in charge. Newsom must fill California’s homelessness leadership vacuum https://t.co/komwC5c1MQ
Bay Area universities, including @Stanford & @UCBerkeley, have used their autonomy & funding to make America great. U.S. military, economic and scientific dominance is built upon their federally-funded research (e.g. the internet). Now, I argue @mercnews, that's all at risk ...
For @mercnews, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @maxtaves (MA Politics '12) writes that Trump’s higher education attacks are endangering Silicon Valley’s secret sauce. https://t.co/kryKRCPsmx
