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The Mercury News - Politics

Dow Jones stock index crosses 40,000: Good or bad for California?

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Educators call Gov. Gavin Newsom's slash to school funding 'unconstitutional'

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Trees, not asphalt: The $1 billion effort to build 'cooler' California school playgrounds

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Editorial: About 1,000 passengers could have died at SFO. Finally, Congress has acted

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Walters: How California's budget morphed into a $45 billion deficit in two years

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Doctors saw younger men seeking vasectomies after Roe v. Wade was overturned

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Undergrads are unionizing, in a sign of labor's resurgence

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Bay Area and California add jobs in April - but the gains are puny

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San Mateo County to launch mental health 'CARE Court' to bring homeless people off street

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Sonoma State University president put on leave after announcing agreement with pro-Palestinian group

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Walters: How California's new fixed utility charge got its sneaky start in the Legislature

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Mercedes workers in Alabama vote 56% against union

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Will Biden's Morehouse speech address campus protests? History suggests so

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'Little Melania': New high school graduate Barron Trump is still protected by mom: report

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Their first baby came with medical debt. These parents won't have another

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Paul Pelosi attacker sentenced to 30 years in prison

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Branham athletics saga: Board votes against hearing complaint supporting dismissed AD

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Editorial: In Berkeley, elect Hernández Story for vacant council seat

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'Experience economy' may bolster post-COVID downtown San Jose recovery

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After shocking hate speech incident in front of students, South Bay city may have first-in-the-state Zoombombing solution

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Cupertino adopts housing plan for 4,588 homes, seeks to allow zoning for high-density projects

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Santa Cruz County a case study on pandemic Project Roomkey

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Santa Clara County DA, public defender forewarn trouble from proposed budget cuts

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UC students OK strike over university's response to protests

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Oakland's homeless population rises 9%, Alameda County population dips 3%

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Milpitas seeks to pour more funding for community, public safety resources in upcoming budget

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Opinion: Climate change won't wait for better budget years. Californians need climate bonds now

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Newsom's latest insurance move could help Californians avoid canceled policies - but they'll have to pay

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Walters: Politicians keep shifting blame as California's homelessness crisis worsens

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Letters: Divestment movement | Curtailing fees | Not silent | Peaceful protest | End horseracing

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Walters: 'Digital Democracy' project penetrates California's opaque political processes

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Opinion: Menstrual health isn't part of California sex education. Why that needs to change

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Kristof: From the embers of an old genocide, a new one may be emerging

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Letters: Keep Price | Name change | Help homeless | Farcical debates

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Letters: No blame | Training needed | PG&E's disdain

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Abcarian: The adult film star with a well-deserved place in American history

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Donald Trump attends son Barron's high school graduation

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Ex-Trump lawyer Eastman pleads not guilty to Arizona election crimes

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Elias: A Kamala Harris 2026 run for California governor could make sense

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Report: Upside-down US flag flew at Justice Alito's home in 2021

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DoJ formally moves to reclassify marijuana as less-dangerous drug

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