Prop 29 Isn't Kidney-ing Around

Right by the Bay | McKenzie Richards
September 28, 2022

During the pandemic, suddenly everyone became armchair medical experts – much to the chagrin of actual epidemiologists. We soon learned the dangers of politicizing health issues.

But on this year’s ballot, California voters will have to become armchair medical experts when they vote on Proposition 29, who will be tasked with deciding how dialysis treatment centers should operate.
 

Life Is Too Short to Drink Subsidized Wine
 

Right by the Bay | Kerry Jackson
September 29, 2022

Can the quality of California wine taste better than it already does? Apparently there’s a way to grow grapes that will do just that.

A farming experiment at ​​Robert Hall Winery in Paso Robles has produced grapes that, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, are “noticeably tastier” than grapes from a control block. According to managing partner Caine Thompson, the fruit from the vines that have been converted to “regenerative farming” showed “freshness, vibrancy, (and) aromatics,” while the grapes from the conventionally farmed vines tasted “ripe to the point of (being) almost overripe, jammy, (and) touching on stewy.”


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Urban bike lanes no answer to climate change 'code red'
 

Free Cities Center | Chris Reed
September 27, 2022

But not in California, where the barriers to having a constructive debate about this issue are many. They start with the huge logical gap between the state’s goal to have “eligible” renewable power sources and zero-carbon resources supply 100 percent of California’s electricity retail sales and the electricity used by state agencies by 2045, and how the environmental movement and the Democrats who control Sacramento want to achieve such reductions.


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