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Bear Essentials June 5th: Is it 1974 all over again?

Bear Essentials May 29th: May the Best Builder Win

Bear Essentials May 22nd: The Bot Thickens

Bear Essentials May 15th: Budgetary Bhujangasana

Bear Essentials May 8th: Housing Policy That Rocks

Bear Essentials May 1st: Everything Is Messy

Bear Essentials April 24th: The Coastal Commission Meets Its Match

Bear Essentials April 17th: One Step Forward, Three Steps Back

Bear Essentials April 10th: The Bill is Coming Due

Bear Essentials April 3rd: A Damning Report

Bear Essentials March 20th: The California Dream, Unevenly Distributed

Bear Essentials March 13th: Everyone wants a piece

Bear Essentials March 6th: Welcome to the Future

Bear Essentials February 27th: Mind the Gap!

Bear Essentials February 20th: The Future is a Multiverse

Bear Essentials February 13th: Time to update the operating system…

Bear Essentials February 6th: WHAT IF WE TRIED NOT BEING STUPID?

Bear Essentials January 30th: DC Hearts SF

Bear Essentials January 16th: The Life Aquatic

Bear Essentials January 9th: Choose your own disaster

Bear Essentials December 19th: A Very Dumb Argument

Bear Essentials December 12th: Death by "Shall"

Bear Essentials December 5th: The Moo and the Moon

Bear Essentials November 21st: AI can’t fix our budget deficit

Bear Essentials November 14th: CHA-CHA-CHA-CHANGES!

Bear Essentials November 7th: EVERYTHING’S EXPENSIVE!

Bear Essentials October 31st: FISH, FARMS, AND FUELS

Bear Essentials October 17th: SMASHING THE SCARCITY SCAM

Bear Essentials October 10th: THINGS HAVE BEEN BETTER!

Bear Essentials October 3rd: RURAL CALIFORNIA BLUES

Bear Essentials September 26th: DON'T F WITH FRESNO...OR SQUIRRELS

Bear Essentials September 19th: WE'RE #1 (UNFORTUNATELY)

Bear Essentials September 12th: Bills, Bills, Bills

Bear Essentials September 5th: Ill Wind

Bear Essentials August 29th: Endless Summer

Bear Essentials August 22nd: 650+ days is not a "fast track..."

Bear Essentials August 15th: Bees, Burritos and Water Wars

Bear Essentials August 8th: This one stings...

Bear Essentials August 1st: Tired of Texas

Bear Essentials July 25th: Premium Panic, Burger Bounce

Bear Essentials July 11th: Ice, Ice, Baby - Too Cold.

Bear Essentials July 7th: A Generational Housing Win

Bear Essentials June 6th: What’s Blowing Up in California (Literally and Politically)

Bear Essentials May 30th: Engineer imports, Olympic anxiety and a 27-foot asparagus

Bear Essentials May 26th: Tiny Exodus, Giant Raises, Hidden Hazards

Bear Essentials May 23rd: Cherry bust, car wars and class divide

Bear Essentials May 20th: CA Summer: BYO Fire Extinguisher

Bear Essentials May 16th: Three Ex-Governors Sound the Alarm

Bear Essentials May 9th: We’re talking about actual grizzly bears here. (And the economy.)

Bear Essentials May 5th: There's a lot going on here...

Bear Essentials April 25th: Hollywood, Homelessness, and Hogwash

Bear Essentials April 18th: Tariffs, Salmon, and Student Homelessness

Bear Essentials April 11th: Palm Springs ♥️ Canadians (and more)

Bear Essentials April 4th: Rural California Voted Red. Now It’s Bleeding Green.

Bear Essentials March 28th: What happened to California's students?

Bear Essentials March 21st: Bright Flowers, Bleak Budgets

Bear Essentials March 14th: Rich Get Richer, Wind Gets Weaker, Asparagus Gets Weird

Bear Essentials March 7th: NIMBYs and Nutria

Bear Essentials February 28th: The best laid plans...

Bear Essentials February 21st: What a week!

Bear Essentials February 14th: It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world

Bear Essentials February 5th: Up your guac game. Also, build more housing.

Bear Essentials January 21st: Unfolding disaster

Bear Essentials January 14th: INFERNO

Bear Essentials December 20th: Nature strikes back

Bear Essentials December 16th: It's the economy stupid.

Bear Essentials December 6th: From Gold Rush to Bear Crush

Bear Essentials December 2: Reports of Trouble

Bear Essentials October 25th: What’s Happening Across California This Week

Bear Essentials October 18th: Did you see the sky?

Bear Essentials October 12th: Some are winning, others losing

Bear Essentials October 4th: This week on the news

Bear Essentials September 27th: What a week

Bear Essentials September 20th: Do you think the state is headed in the right direction?

Bear Essentials September 13th: When coyotes move in Copy

Bear Essentials September 6th: Winning the BBQ and sustainability battles!

Bear Essentials August 31st: Bill-a-palooza

Bear Essentials August 23rd: A White House with NCC policy…

Bear Essentials August 16th: Progress on housing?

Bear Essentials August 10th: Teacher’s Perks

Gov. Newsom highlights NCC advocacy

Bear Essentials August 2nd: Building behavioral health housing

Bear Essentials July 27th: California is winning (on some things)

Bear Essentials July 19th: Stay hydrated

Bear Essentials July 12th: Hot summer vibes

Bear Essentials July 3rd: Happy Independence Day!

Bear Essentials June 28th: How to get into CA state parks - for free!

Bear Essentials June 22nd: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Bear Essentials June 8th: How many homes did California build in the ‘60s?

Bear Essentials May 31st: Drinking toilet water – and other infrastructure innovations!

Bear Essentials May 24th: Aren’t you grateful to be a Californian?

May 17th: The Feds are Coming

May 10th: May Revise budget is in the air

May 3rd: Looking for long term solutions – not last minute fixes

April 26th Bear Essentials: Yes, we are getting high-speed rail to Vegas

April 19th Bear Essentials: Do you like data? Us too:

April 12th Bear Essentials: (Mostly) Good News Friday Copy

April 5th Bear Essentials: Are we looking at an Affordable Housing summer?

March 22nd Bear Essentials: It’s official - Prop 1 passed

Los Angeles Daily News: Gov. Newsom urges California voters to support Proposition 1