A helpful lens through which to better understand the roots of indecisiveness comes from a research-based therapy approach called motivational interviewing. This technique has been successfully applied to reduce uncertainty and increase a range of behavioral changes. Dr. Valerie Hoover explains in Psychology Today.
What is the psychological explanation for a person wanting everyone to agree with them? Dr. Abbie Maroño, PhD in Psychology & Human Behaviour Analysis unpacks how while it looks like narcissism—it isn’t. Rather, the need for validation, fear of conflict, underlying insecurities interact to dissuade people from taking independent positions. In Forbes magazine.
San Jose's Urban Growth Boundary has led to spiraling housing costs and scores of urban ills. In Contra Costa County, taxpayers are fighting the proposal to extend their county's Limit Line (Measure A).
Ron Johnson of Midlands Psychological Associates explores how the contradictory nature of incompatible impulses can kick off an inner voyage of discovery.
Contra Costa leaders, collecting far more revenue from a 2020 sales tax increase than anticipated, are now trying to leverage fears about federal funding cuts to raise the tax even further. The East Bay
Times isn't buying it.
On this Tax-Free Tuesday (5.25) Opp Now editor Will Sherman explores the Merc’s important opposition to Measure D and how a little-known loophole makes it fantastically easy to raise your parcel tax, despite what you may have thought were Prop 13 protections. An Opp Now exclusive.
SF startup behind $700 'sleeping pods' buys a new downtown building; looks to add 400 beds to operation. Pods can be used in vacant office buildings. KGO reports.
Newsom's Software-as-a-Service products tax, part of his new budget and set to take effect January 1, 2027, is divorced from business reality. Marc Joffe explains in the Orange County Register.
Opp Now's Cristabel Cruz takes a ramble among cities which have embraced a "Contract" model (greatly reducing local gov't size and cost). And likes what she finds. An Opp Now exclusive.
