@JoshGohlke

Formerly of the L.A. Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle and Sacramento Bee.

 California
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Joined May 2011
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The last piece I wrote was spiked by the owner of the L.A. Times. I wrote this one for the internet! gohlkeapparatus.substack.com…
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Why opinion journalists are in the crosshairs – and how their disappearance from legacy media is already enabling the Trump administration’s worst excesses. gohlkeapparatus.substack.com…
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It’s great to see Gavin Newsom acknowledge that it’s “time to get serious” about producing housing. But why now? gohlkeapparatus.substack.com…
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Having covered my personal calamity last week, I got back to writing about our national ones. substack.com/home/post/p-164…
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A Weimar Republic, if you can keep it.
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The Inquirer Editorial Board has made its endorsement in the 2024 presidential race: Vice President Kamala Harris. Read the full endorsement here: inquirer.com/opinion/editori…
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Opinion: Donald Trump's advice on drinking and drugs is 'Don't start.' So what's wrong with that? latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Opinion: Donald Trump's advice on drinking and drugs is 'Don't start.' So what's wrong with that?

Echoing Nancy Reagan's "Just say no," the former president told Fox News that he never had trouble with intoxicating substances because he never tried them.

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My LAT story top of home page today: “By 1980, baby boomers...rapidly became NIMBYs...They went on to plant "Black Lives Matter" signs in their lawns. The message was hollow: We support you; just don't live near us.” latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Opinion: I've covered California's homeless since before the word was used. This is what I learned

In Sacramento, the problem has exploded from a few hundred "inebriates" in flophouses to thousands in tents and encampments. Democrats share the blame.

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@econ_harris8 Mar 2024
My latest op-ed in @latimes arguing that we have a housing problem more than a broad inflation problem. We would be around 2% inflation is housing costs had grown at historical rates. latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Opinion: Inflation isn't the real problem for the U.S. economy. The housing shortage is

The Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates high to tame price growth. But it's a shortage of homes in California and nationwide that's driving rising costs.

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My piece for @latimes Will we please start covering the issues at stake between the candidates & not the polls. Our jobs on campaigns is to change them & we will, but policy differences between Biden & Trump are seldom covered. The media must do better latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Opinion: Panicking over polls showing Donald Trump ahead of President Biden? Please stop

Like Biden, Obama and Reagan had rough reelection polls. Too many journalists treat polls as predictive, but political professionals use them to inform campaigns.

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If you listen to California's political class, high-speed rail is a textbook boondoggle. Yet in communities across the Central Valley, the discourse is different. My attempt unpacking the bad-faith debate over our most ambitious infrastructure project ⬇️ calmatters.org/commentary/20…

From ‘train to nowhere’ to Fresno’s dream: What high-speed rail means for the Central Valley

In the Central Valley, the discourse around high-speed rail is different. It's not "a train to nowhere." It's a symbol of transformation.

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I asked ChatGPT to make a picture of affordable housing. For every 10 likes, I'll ask it to make the housing even more affordable.
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“Trump is a one-trick pony whose approach to every situation is the same toxic brew of grievance, vanity and hate. His legal strategy is identical to his political strategy.” latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Litman: Trump's fraud trial strategy may be politically effective. But it's legally disastrous

The ex-president insulted Justice Arthur Engoron and helped Atty. Gen. Letitia James. Ivanka Trump's testimony looked polite and uneventful by contrast.

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"Among those Israeli soldiers are friends, children of friends, a brother. Are they going into Gaza? To what end? "Netanyahu famously avoids taking questions from Israeli journalists, so let me ask here. "What are Israel’s objectives in this war?" latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Opinion: Invading Gaza, but to what end? Netanyahu's incompetent government has no answers

Will reducing Gaza to rubble actually achieve long-term security for Israel? Are there no other, more effective ways to neutralize Hamas that Israel hasn’t yet tried?

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"Many political and military analysts have criticized Israel's intelligence failure. But the success of Hamas’ surprise attack also indicates an operational failure: a fundamental misunderstanding of the enemy’s nature regardless of specific intelligence." latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Opinion: The Hamas attack on Israel reflects an intelligence failure. But that's not the worst...

The terrorist ambush launched from Gaza reflected an operational failure on the part of the Jewish state: a basic misunderstanding of the nature of the enemy.

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This excellent piece in the @latimes by @pennlaw professor @KermitRoosevelt on Section 3 adds the compelling historical explanation/justification for the former president's disqualification from the presidency that has been missing from the national conversation to date:
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OK sports fans, Wednesday’s hearing was just the 1st of many in the weird and tumultuous year ahead in which normally inconsequential legal questions will have potentially huge consequences for national politics and therefore the future of our democracy. latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Litman: Some of Trump's co-defendants could go to trial this fall. Will he have to join them?

Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell could go to trial in November. Fulton County Dist. Atty. Fani Willis has argued that the entire case, including the ex-president, should go with them.

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Opinion: The $1 million home is becoming the norm in L.A. This is an outrage we could have prevented latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Opinion: The $1-million home is becoming the norm in L.A. This is an outrage we could have prevented

California's median home price is near $750,000. The most promising prescription for the housing shortage is undoing single-family zoning and increasing density.

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"It doesn’t matter whether the show you helped build generates 3.1 billion viewing minutes in one week across Netflix and Peacock, setting a Nielsen record." A writer of Suits says its surprise re-emergence earned $259.71. news.yahoo.com/opinion-helpe…
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“As skyrocketing housing costs in LA and the Bay Area push more people into outlying regions, those places have increasingly experienced the same pressures. One study found that Fresno endured the fastest rent growth of any major city nationwide in 2021.” latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Opinion: Another consequence of the L.A. housing crisis: The Fresno housing crisis

The Central Valley city has seen among the fastest rent hikes nationwide as coastal California residents flee inland in search of affordable homes.

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