Opinion: More big PG&E rate hikes if use of outdated system continues bit.ly/3kLpwYT

Some of these goals are insane man, wow xitter.cf/emz__82/status/2114860…

A new audit report provides further documentation that the City of San Diego does not suffer from a lack of revenue, it suffers from a lack of accountability and a culture of mismanagement. “two electricians found by the audit to have spent 198 hours – the equivalent of 25 workdays – parked for long stretches at sites where no documented repairs took place.” sandiegouniontribune.com/202…

FBI case agent releases WhatsApp exchange between Andy Duong and business partner, Mario Juarez, apparently laying out the pay-to-play scheme with former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. See the actual message in my report below. It includes: - $75,000 for negative mailers against Thao’s opponent - $300,000 for Thao’s partner, Andre Jones - Oakland to buy 300 modular homes at $300,000 each from the Duongs - contract extension for Duongs’ company, California Waste Solutions - Duongs pick people to fill various city posts Juarez asks, “Should we share with David?” Andy Duong answers, “David knows already.” That’s apparently David Duong, Andy’s father, CWS founder, and now, co-defendant in the bribery and corruption trial. abc7news.com/19958042/

PROMOTION/RELEGATION SET TO ARRIVE IN AMERICAN SOCCER IN 2028 🇺🇸📈 USL has unveiled new branding as it prepares to introduce promotion and relegation across three men’s professional divisions: ▫️ USL Premier — Division One ▫️ USL Championship — Division Two ▫️ USL League One — Division Three Clubs would earn promotion, or face relegation, based on their results on the field. The new look launches in January 2027, with USL Premier and the promotion/relegation system planned for 2028.

The beautiful game

The cost of constant instruction Every time a coach supplies the answer, a player loses an opportunity to search for one. Instruction has its place. So does silence. Sometimes the most valuable thing a coach can do is resist the urge to intervene. #TOVO

Humbled to have President @BarackObama standing with us. As a former teacher, a dad, and the Attorney General who’s gone to bat for Nevadans, I’ll keep fighting for you as Governor: lowering costs, making housing affordable, and holding the line on your taxes. Thank you, Mr. President. Nevada, let’s do this. Early voting starts this Saturday, October 17th.

What is happening at the Kansas State House is also, unfortunately, happening at California’s. Dwindling local press = less coverage of state action, lack of institutional knowledge, & officials becoming less accustomed to interacting with reporters: poynter.org/reporting-editin…

New: PG&E CEO Patti Poppe says SF's attempted power grid takeover could cost "north of $20 billion." SF has offered far less, but PG&E's figure includes more things, such as the cost of physically separating the city's system from the rest of the grid. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p…

Hugo Chávez seized more than 1,000 private companies between 2002 and 2012, and every single one produced less under state control than it did before the expropriators walked in. Not most. All of them. Take SIDOR, the steel giant Chávez nationalized in 2008. It shipped 4.3 million tons that year; by 2019 output had collapsed below 200,000 tons. Chávez purged PDVSA of 18,000 skilled workers in 2003 and stuffed it with loyalists; the company, sitting on the largest proven oil reserves on earth, pumped 3.2 million barrels a day in 1998 and under 400,000 by 2020. The state also grabbed Agroisleña, the country's main farm supplier, renamed it Agropatria, and fertilizer promptly vanished from the shelves. Cement, electricity, banking, rice mills: same pattern, every time. Bad luck does not repeat a thousand times. A bureaucrat who faces no profit-and-loss test cannot calculate. Without market prices for capital goods, he cannot know whether the factory he runs creates value or burns it. Central planners lack the information needed to allocate resources efficiently. Venezuela ran that experiment a thousand times over, same result each time. The managers who replaced the owners were not stupid. They responded rationally to their actual incentives: please Caracas, hit political quotas, skim before the next purge. Output was nobody's problem because output was nobody's property. If your government starts seizing companies "for the people," the production those companies generate is already gone. Expropriation transfers assets while destroying the wealth those assets once created, and the people it claims to serve absorb the shortage.