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The Mercury News - Opinion

Bravo: Prop. 40 will make California's health care challenges even worse

2 days ago

Lanzas: Prop. 40 is the key to preserving health care access and saving lives

2 days ago

Endorsement: Ben Allen is the pragmatic leader California's insurance crisis demands

2 days ago

Roberts: Prop. 43 places insurmountable roadblocks to citizen-led community solutions

2 days ago

Letters: Berkeley should honor its history of compassion for vulnerable

2 days ago

Letters: Scare tactics aren't enough to justify new transit tax

2 days ago

Endorsement: Elect Fiona Ma California's lieutenant governor

3 days ago

Glazer: As BART warned of financial doom, it ramped up spending, refused to right-size agency

3 days ago

Schaaf: Prop. 37 makes homeownership a reality

3 days ago

In their words: Fiona Ma v. Gloria Romero. We asked. They answered.

2 days ago

Opinion: A Paramount-Warner merger will hurt Hollywood and people of color

3 days ago

Skelton: Three ballot measures on housing, medical research but only one no-brainer

3 days ago

Letters: Op-ed ignores measures' effect on Prop. 40

3 days ago

Letters: The US can choose to end poverty here

3 days ago

Mackenzie: Silicon Valley, we need to talk about the land we still have left

4 days ago

Opinion: Health care is more badly broken than political leaders admit

4 days ago

Florez: Stop corporate data centers from jacking up electric bills for everyday Californians

5 days ago

Granderson: The cruel politics that pit struggling Americans against each other

5 days ago

Opinion: AI models are the good, the bad and the ugly, all at once

5 days ago

Calmes: Trump loves to throw around taxpayers' money

6 days ago

Opinion: Raise taxes on billionaires federally, not state by state

6 days ago

Barabak: As Newsom winds down in California, things heat up in Nevada

6 days ago

Jarvis: Health care costs have small businesses in an impossible bind

9 days ago

Leubsdorf: The unreality of the Republican midterm convention

9 days ago

Mukunda: The US-Canada rupture is a lesson in declining leadership

9 days ago

Will AI kill us all in 10 years? Probably not.

3 days ago

Goldman: Meta's $5 billion deal with the state AGs to take down its rivals

10 days ago

Walters: Sacramento Bee slashes staff as Gov. Newsom weighs state aid for news outlets

10 days ago

DePetris: The Trump administration is claiming success in drug strikes. Not so fast.

10 days ago

Schrager: College costs are due for a correction, not a crash

10 days ago

Barabak: California's recall system is a mess. Voters can do something about it.

11 days ago

Westly: Vote 'yes' on Prop. 41 to ensure real accountability for every tax dollar spent

11 days ago

Shackelford: Nepal's disaster is today's terrifying climate change reality

11 days ago

Letters: Yes on Prop. 43 is a vote in favor of accountability

11 days ago

Letters: Nuclear power is a more reliable option than solar

11 days ago

Opinion: California can't fix housing affordability until it fixes algorithmic collusion

12 days ago

Skelton: Wildfire bill flameout sad for California

12 days ago

Texas is red, California blue — but for how much longer? A Lone Star toss-up will tell.

12 days ago

House: Silicon Valley owes America more than its weapons

13 days ago

Millions face court alone. California can change that.

13 days ago

Corporations with big pay disparities have been silent as ICE detains their workers

13 days ago

Capitolo: Vote 'yes.' Prop. 45 changes construction timelines, not our standards

16 days ago

Grimes: Vote 'no.' Prop. 45 isn't pro-affordability. It's a ruse handing shortcuts to polluters disguised as relief.

16 days ago

Letters: Without accountability, transit tax is another empty promise

16 days ago

Letters: The ultra-rich are driving state's affordability crisis

16 days ago

Ellenberg: Vote 'no.' Prop. 43 gives 34% of voters the power to defeat 66%.

16 days ago

Opinion: Sept. 11 hasn't yet found its meaning

17 days ago

Opinion: Newsom should sign legislation bolstering newsrooms — and democracy

17 days ago

Stephens: 25 years after 9/11, life has proved stronger than death

17 days ago

Hiltzik: Medicare for All is back on the political front burner. A Democratic majority could pass it.

18 days ago

Opinion: At $40 trillion in debt, Washington is stealing from younger generations

18 days ago

Abcarian: Women can thank Gloria Steinem for so much we take for granted now

18 days ago

Letters: Alameda County sheriff falls short on Flock transparency

18 days ago

Letters: The question we should ask is, 'Why so few affordable homes?'

18 days ago

Taves: California's Legislature just took on monopolies. Your turn, Gov. Newsom. Sign the COMPETE Act.

18 days ago

Opinion: Voters, beware. California governors can do (almost) anything. Choose wisely.

19 days ago

California's political hopefuls remain silent on state's job losses, unemployment

19 days ago

Granderson: Michigan race tests whether voters care more about issues or identity

19 days ago

Letters: Reject Howard Jarvis Taxpayers' hypocrisy, vote against Prop. 43

19 days ago

Letters: Cal and Stanford should quit the college football circus

19 days ago

Opinion: Online or in our neighborhoods. Hatred has no place in Silicon Valley.

20 days ago

Rubin: Trump has started a dumb trade war with Canada that threatens US jobs and security

20 days ago

Opinion: What 'affordability' really means to working-class voters

20 days ago

Opinion: Of course Flock cameras are being attacked. Congress has failed to regulate them.

23 days ago

DePetris: Six months of war with Iran, and what exactly have we achieved?

23 days ago

Letters: Aisha Wahab's swearing-in is a reason to celebrate

23 days ago

Schaaf: Vote 'yes' on Regional Transit Measure. We can't afford to let Bay Area transit collapse.

24 days ago

Joffe: Vote 'no' on Regional Transit Measure. It will burden Bay Area's poorest and isn't needed to 'save transit.'

24 days ago

Opinion: A stronger Oakland starts with stable housing that supports stronger families

24 days ago

Chabria: Sheriff Chad Bianco can't catch a break. That's a good thing.

24 days ago

California's fight against Trump's unhinged war on voting by mail

24 days ago

The 'war on fraud' is targeting the wrong crimes

25 days ago

Opinion: Prop. 43 closes a loophole that's draining California taxpayers dry

25 days ago

Forget about COVID-19's origins. Focus on preventing the next pandemic

25 days ago

Opinion: Your 'kids, students and neighbors' are powering the AI boom for low wages and no safety net

25 days ago

Klas: A voter enthusiasm gap is steering the midterms

26 days ago

Opinion: AI is making human connection more valuable than ever

26 days ago

Letters: State AGs must ensure that Meta enacts and follows new rules

26 days ago

Letters: Courageous cop injured in gunfight deserves highest honor

26 days ago

The real reason moderates keep losing to progressives

27 days ago

California's political battle over key environmental law brews on two fronts

27 days ago

Abcarian: Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks 'Woke 1' was crazy

27 days ago

Jarvis: A cancer vaccine is closer than ever

30 days ago

Opinion: How to prevent future US attorneys general from being subservient attack dogs

30 days ago

Two good ideas from California Republicans dead on arrival in state's Democratic Legislature

30 days ago

Letters: Reject lawsuit targeting Islamic culture

30 days ago

Letters: Supreme Court's decision on voting by mail is clearly political

30 days ago

Opinion: California's top earners are thriving. Prop. 3 asks them to keep paying their share.

30 days ago

Oda: Birthright citizenship is not a wartime exception

1 month ago

Calmes: Trump's reputation for corruption is doing Democrats' work for them

21 days ago

Opinion: At airports, ICE snatches people who are following the rules

1 month ago

Leubsdorf: Democrats show GOP's socialist warnings are misplaced

1 month ago

Battenfeld: Is Trump 2.0, burdened by war and defections, winding down?

1 month ago

Five California propositions ask the same question: Who should pay billions in taxes?

1 month ago

America's digital supremacy depends on our ability to upgrade the power grid — quickly

1 month ago

Drucker: Democrats' greatest divide isn't race or money

1 month ago

Math's AI crisis has a lesson for the rest of us

1 month ago

Letters: State should pass bill to mitigate East Bay coal pollution

1 month ago

Letters: SAT won't bar diversity, just students unable to do the work

1 month ago

Feldman: Trump's expansion of executive privilege would invite more corruption

1 month ago