Guest View: California will continue to struggle with existential issues in 2024
California enters the new year with its existential issues still unresolved, and a new one—an immense budget deficit—threatens to make dealing with them even more difficult.
California has made very little progress, if any, on narrowing its shortage of housing, its levels of homelessness and...
‘Help Me to Realize that My Days are Numbered …’
New efforts to pass the California Compassionate Choices Act
Voters still turn away
Nearly 29,000 San Benito County adults were registered to vote in the June 5 primary. In neighboring Santa Clara County, the number of registered voters was a record, approaching 850,000. The “turnout”—the percentage of registered voters that actually cast ballots—was considered above average for...
4 letters: Cordoba Center has serious issues being ignored by paper; Islamic Center supporters hope and believe proposal will receive approval;
Islamic Center has serious groundwater and zoning issues being ignored – why?
Pacheco Y traffic plan mothballed
.The latest delay in fixing the Pacheco Y, the dangerous, chronic bottleneck where Highways 152 and 156 intersect in south Santa Clara County is being blamed on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget plan.









