Opinion | By Jose Navarro | The Navarro Report A president standing before his party’s convention and promising every adult citizen a $5,000 check if his party wins in November […]
A Red Sea Island Just Got More Expensive Than Your Gas Tank
By Jose Navarro | The Navarro Report Every escalation in the Middle East now arrives at the same destination: the pump. This week it was a strip of volcanic rock […]
“A System for the Wealthy”: Miami-Dade Debates Charging for a Free Train to Patch a Budget Gap It Built Itself
For 27 years, the Metromover has been Miami-Dade’s one truly free ride — an elevated, driverless loop through downtown and Brickell that costs riders nothing and the county’s general fund […]
Nearly $5 Billion, No Brakes: LA County’s Abuse Settlement Payouts Proceed Over a District Attorney’s Fraud Warning
Some settlements close a chapter. This one is opening a new line item in Los Angeles County’s budget for years to come. Beginning in July, the county started cutting checks […]
The Bill Comes Due: Pure Water’s $130 Million Overrun Is Already on Your Water Bill
Six months ago, this outlet asked whether San Diego was about to get a multi-billion-dollar water bill nobody was talking about honestly. The number has since arrived, itemized, on the […]
The Warnings Were Written Down: California’s $20 Billion Habit of Not Reading Its Own Audits
Somewhere in Sacramento there is a filing cabinet’s worth of solved problems. Not hypothetical solutions — actual, specific, state-auditor-drafted recommendations, tested against real fraud and real spending, sitting unread by […]
The Bill Nobody Voted On: States Are About to Pay for a Federal Mandate They Didn’t Design
Sometime in the last two weeks, roughly 20 million Americans should have received a letter from their state Medicaid agency. Not from Washington — from Springfield, Illinois, or Salem, Oregon, […]
The Second Lock: How a Yemeni Militia Just Put a Price Tag on the World’s Oil Bypass
Thirty tankers sit staged near the Saudi port of Yanbu this week, loaded and waiting, within range of an enemy that just proved it can close the water beneath them. […]
Miami-Dade’s Enrollment Crisis Is a Demographic Story, Not Just a Budget One
The Miami-Dade County School Board adopted a $7.4 billion budget this week — $100 million smaller than last year’s — and warned that more cuts are coming. The district’s own […]
A Scenario Worth Game-Planning: What Bringing the Chargers Home Would Actually Cost San Diego
San Diego taxpayers are still paying off a stadium that no longer physically exists. Qualcomm — later SDCCU — Stadium was demolished in 2021, yet the city carries roughly $11.5 […]