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My jaw didn't drop at news that the new price for the Gilroy

There are those whose accomplishments in life are trumpeted far and wide, and then there are those whose quiet lives pass among us underappreciated, sometimes going almost unnoticed.

If their shameless pursuit of a San Francisco home is a money chase, Warriors co-owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber are doing the right thing.

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors passed the second and final reading of an ordinance that will ask voters to increase the sales tax by one-eighth cent in November, increasing the local tax rate from 8.375 percent to 8.5 percent. The board voted 4-0 Tuesday, with South County’s Supervisor Mike Wasserman absent.

I hate Father's Day. Oh, I love my dad. But Father's Day is such

 The many negative stories represent aberrations, revealing nothing at all typical about public employees in California. But they have turned public opinion against civil servants so severely that it will be difficult to pass any of the current spate of tax increase proposals, no matter who might back them or bankroll them.

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I have made an exciting scientific discovery. Now, the discovery