January 9, 2026
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Steve Stajich

The Kids Are Alright. But How Are We Doing?:

Near the holiday weekend one of our cable channels offered-up a kind of festival of “Teens-out-of-control!” movies from the 50s and 60s. “Rebel Without a Cause” and “The Blackboard Jungle” made the list of course, […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Needed Prop. 13 Fix at Last Gets a Serious Look:

Ho-hum. Another summer, and on other state budget deficit, another impasse in the Legislature, and once again a major part of the solution stares lawmakers in the face and they do nothing about it. Oops. […]

Brown-Whitman Race May Turn on Populism vs. Business:

When finances turn questionable for a big business, there are layoffs. From General Motors to General Electric and even the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Chronicle, that’s how it’s done. It doesn’t always work: […]

Steve Stajich

I Eat, Therefore I Risk:

Let’s start with the water bottle. Because that’s just such a strange modern mentality to begin with… the notion that something is safer or more pure because it’s in a sealed plastic bottle. But okay, […]

Ted Winterer

Hometown Hero: Ted Winterer:

2010 will be the first time Ted, his wife, the designer Beck Taylor, their children, Eleanor and Steele, and their dogs will join the marchers. For the previous three years Ted was a parade producer […]

Time to Change the Map on High Speed Rail:

Here’s a question for the California High Speed Rail authority: How about cutting out the most expensive parts of your current plan – which also happen to be the most controversial – while leaving its […]