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Opinion

Opinion: Newsom Sees Huge Changes 

May 14, 2018

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May 14, 2018

  (One in a series of interviews with significant candidates for governor of California). Picture a California where it’s illegal...

Opinion

Opinion: Why The Polls Are Wildly Variable This Spring

May 9, 2018

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May 9, 2018

Modern life may have caught up with political polling. Just as they have shaken up industries and activities from newspapers...

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Opinion: ‘Janus’ Could Change CA Politics

May 7, 2018

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May 7, 2018

    Few California primary elections in non-presidential election years have been so anticipated as the one that starts soon,...

Spring onions are now available at local farmers’ markets.
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Opinion: This ‘Resistance’ Legal Action On Pesticide Is Vital

May 3, 2018

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May 3, 2018

It is, quite simply, not within California’s power to rid its own food and fields – let alone all of...

Alex Soto (left) and Tom Bagamane (right) of The Giving Spirit present a homeless man with one of the kits.
Opinion

Opinion: Housing Answer Must Help Many

May 1, 2018

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May 1, 2018

  Scott Wiener, the ultra-liberal Democratic state senator from San Francisco appeared surprised the other day to learn the truth...

Opinion

Top 4 System Could Revive State’s Republicans

March 28, 2018

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March 28, 2018

By Tom Elias Imagine for a moment that California now had a top four primary election system instead of the...

Opinion

Congress Must Temper Trump’s California Vendetta

March 15, 2018

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March 15, 2018

By Tom Elias This has all the symptoms of a classical political vendetta: At every opportunity, President Trump does whatever...

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Gas Tax Boost Key to Trump Infrastructure Cash

March 1, 2018

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March 1, 2018

By Tom Elias Strong ironies are playing out today as California’s 14 Republican members of Congress support President Trump’s announced...

Opinion

Zoning Nullification: The End of Local Control?

February 26, 2018

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February 26, 2018

By Tom Elias Gov. Jerry Brown, a former mayor of Oakland who often griped about state government’s interference with local...

Opinion

If Undisciplined, GOP Won’t Make Fall Ballot

February 22, 2018

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February 22, 2018

By Tom Elias It’s well established that the California Republican Party has been almost without influence in the state’s public...

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