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Taves: JD, it's time to change your name again

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California lacks critical data on water supplies. Here's why it must modernize its systems.

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Letters: Could Newsom's decision end California's death penalty?

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Opinion: Fear politics lost. Voters chose a different future.

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Letters: Scare tactics cost state sound CEQA reform

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Opinion: Flock cameras show that we need a constitutional amendment for information privacy

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Klas: Can we please end these gerrymandering wars now?

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Letters: Newsom's death penalty decision should be copied everywhere

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Calmes: Your parents' Republican Party isn't coming back

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ICE enforcement in Orange County raises red flags for misuse of government databases

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Opinion: The fossil fuel industry follows big tobacco's disinformation

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Cottle: It was time for Susan Collins to go

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Letters: After this divisive midterm, it's time nation comes together

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Letters: After their sweeping victory, Democrats must get to work

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Brownstein: Trump's MAGA coalition just got vaporized

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Barabak: For Trump, Democratic blowout is a stark personal repudiation

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Why your home insurance costs more than your property tax

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Opinion: RFK Jr. is committing 'statistical murder'; he should be held accountable

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Granderson: No magic words will cure the racism that festers in America

8 days ago

Opinion: The US is likely to lose its edge in scientific research because of political priorities

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California adopted a new water plan. It's unlikely to end the state's water wars.

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Letters: Musk's power over life and death in Ukraine should concern Americans

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Feldman: The White House will fail to overturn any elections

9 days ago

Leubsdorf: This election really is the most important in years

9 days ago

We asked the No on Prop. 40 campaign why voters should reject the measure

9 days ago

We asked the Yes on Prop. 40 campaign why voters should approve the measure

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We asked the No on Prop. 41 campaign why voters should reject the measure

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We asked the Yes on Prop. 41 campaign why voters should approve the measure

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We asked the Yes on Prop. 5 campaign why voters should approve the measure

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We asked the No on Prop. 5 campaign why voters should reject the measure

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Letters: Election workers do the hard task of sustaining democracy

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Letters: San Jose should redouble efforts to end homelessness

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We asked the No on Prop. 38 campaign why voters should reject the measure

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We asked the Yes on Prop. 38 campaign why voters should approve the measure

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We asked the No on Prop. 39 campaign why voters should reject the measure

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We asked the Yes on Prop. 39 campaign why voters should approve the measure

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Opinion: Prop. 3 helps my students without raising taxes

10 days ago

Endorsement: Break the 49ers' grip over Santa Clara. Elect these three candidates.

11 days ago

Opinion: Big money is everywhere in California politics. Prop. 4 can curb its influence.

12 days ago

Letters: Schools should provide students with classes for all abilities

12 days ago

Letters: Vote yes on Prop. 43 to set a higher bar for new special taxes

12 days ago

Endorsement: These three City Council candidates are San Jose's best choices

13 days ago

McNerney: Proposition 40 would shatter our financial stability

13 days ago

Endorsement: Elect Michael Melillo to San Jose Unified School District Board of Education

13 days ago

Vinik: Most school shootings start with a gun brought into the home by an adult

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Opinion: Democratic socialism is as American as apple pie. Eugene Debs showed it.

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Letters: Reject Prop. 45 to protect environment

13 days ago

Endorsement: Reject San Mateo Community College District's $848 million Measure V

13 days ago

Letters: Vote yes on Measure N to improve Los Gatos-Saratoga school facilities

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Endorsement: Voters should support the Measure M bond to fix Gilroy schools

14 days ago

Opinion: Muslims have always had to prove our Americanness. Enter Abdul El-Sayed.

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Crisp: A third impeachment? What if there's no choice?

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Opinion: Naturalized citizens have special relationship to voting

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Opinion: Becerra's plan for free midday electricity would be a leap forward

15 days ago

Opinion: Prevent collateral damage from California's new gold rush

15 days ago

Letters: Proposition 40 would impede oligarchy

15 days ago

Endorsement: Yes on Prop. 3. It asks Californians truly living the California dream to keep paying their fair share.

16 days ago

Barabak: With a foot out the door, Nancy Pelosi tries one last flex

16 days ago

Letters: PG&E shutdowns should remind us to come up with a fire plan

16 days ago

Letters: Measure RTM would worsen Bay Area's affordability crisis

16 days ago

Endorsement: These propositions just pump borrowed money into a broken system

16 days ago

Sivas: Prop. 45 will take a meat axe to California environmental protections

17 days ago

Opinion: Donald Trump's actions against Ukraine betray Ronald Reagan

19 days ago

Brownstein: Partisan gridlock may be red and blue states' least-bad outcome

19 days ago

Chabria: Why Trump's attack on California voting is false — and even a bit funny

19 days ago

Letters: Reject Prop. 43, an anti-democratic abomination. Don't let a third of voters negate overwhelming majorities.

19 days ago

Endorsement: Oakland voters should reject Measure EE plan that politicizes administration

20 days ago

Barabak: Despite a blue tide, this Democratic governor is fighting to survive

20 days ago

Opinion: As a thwarted mass shooting in Aurora shows, we can't ignore hate against Hindu Americans

20 days ago

Letters: Don't give billionaires your vote on Props. 40, 41 and 42

20 days ago

Letters: Prop. 45 is only good for developers' wallets

20 days ago

Endorsement: Elect Wahab over Hernandez to represent East Bay in Congress

20 days ago

Endorsement: End Oakland teacher union's chaotic control of the school board

21 days ago

Opinion: Despite having the playbook, LA still failed to command the 2025 fires

21 days ago

Davalos: Prop. 37 would be a bonanza for home builders. But what about California home buyers? TBD.

21 days ago

Endorsement: No on Props. 40, 41 and 42. Reject billionaires tax — and billionaires' attempts to shackle state's fiscal future.

22 days ago

Skelton: CEQA needs reform, but not like this

22 days ago

Opinion: Universal public health insurance is the answer

22 days ago

Letters: Prop. 45 goes too far in blunting CEQA

22 days ago

Voting for San Mateo County Supervisor District 5? Read this first

23 days ago

Before you vote on Prop. 5, read this

23 days ago

Castro: Oakland has its schools back. Now voters face a new challenge.

23 days ago

Barabak: How the Golden State lost its gleam. And what that means for 2028.

23 days ago

Opinion: Free universal after-school is an easy win in a world of problems

23 days ago

Letters: Hernandez's Taliban slur against Wahab must cost her support

23 days ago

Letters: Aisha Wahab's deft handling of Taliban jab shows mettle

23 days ago

How should you vote on Prop. 4?

23 days ago

Endorsement: Back Prop. 43 to restore voter-approved restrictions on local taxes

26 days ago

Chabria: The US is in the death business. Newsom can change that, and win votes.

26 days ago