"The biggest threat to the exciting transformation of Bay Area transit isn’t voters’ willingness to fund it — it’s a focus on local control among some existing transit agency staff and elected officials at the expense of better system coordination."
"This is a classic example of a problem that could be solved by ranked-choice voting, a tested, nonpartisan reform that discourages this sort of gamesmanship and more accurately represents what a majority of voters want."
"[California community] Colleges say they desperately need the money, but that they are reluctant to spend it because of ongoing uncertainty surrounding the state’s budget. Namely, they fear they’ll be asked to give it back."