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Newsom’s State Budget Takes a Page From Shohei Ohtani’s $700M Deal

■California’s budget relies heavily on deferrals, similar to Ohtani’s contract. ■Gov. Newsom’s budget includes at least $1...

Newsom’s State Budget Takes a Page From Shohei Ohtani’s $700M Deal

■California’s budget relies heavily on deferrals, similar to Ohtani’s contract. ■Gov. Newsom’s budget includes at least $1...

/ 1 year ago

California’s Most Wanted Sea Otter Bites Back

By AGGRESSIVE SANTA CRUZ OTTER, as told to JOE MATHEWS Joe Mathews Opinion Who are you to be calling me aggressive? Yes, I’m the 5-year-o...

/ 2 years ago

California’s Most Wanted Sea Otter Bites Back

By AGGRESSIVE SANTA CRUZ OTTER, as told to JOE MATHEWS Joe Mathews Opinion Who are you to be calling me aggressive? Yes, I’m the 5-year-o...

/ 2 years ago

Will Political Reality Shape a Mighty Morro Bay Wind?

Do we care if climate projects benefit the communities they impact? That question is posed by the first-ever auction for leases to create of...

/ 2 years ago

Why San Diego Is Fast Becoming America’s Greatest College Town

Who needs ivy-covered walls, Palo Alto farms, or Telegraph Hill when you could study in America’s Finest College Town? Joe Mathews Opinion...

/ 2 years ago

How Aunt Fern’s Dust Bowl Migration Lifted up My Family and California

“They had qualities of humor and courage and inventiveness and energy that appealed to me. I thought that if we had a national character and...

/ 2 years ago

Los Angeles Is the Capital of America’s Democracy Crisis

  If the crisis in American democracy had a capital, it would be Los Angeles. Joe Mathews Opinion This may be news to Americans who,...

/ 3 years ago

Sen. Feinstein, Justice Breyer Hold California Hostage by Not Retiring

San Francisco stubbornness is holding the republic hostage. The hostage takers — U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and U.S. Supreme Court Justic...

/ 4 years ago

We Need State Commission to Investigate School Closures: Opinion

If America needs a 1/6 Commission, then California certainly must have a 3/13 Commission. When an irreplaceable foundation of our free socie...

/ 4 years ago

Will Amtrak Joe Save California’s Troubled High-Speed Rail Project?

Dear Joe, I should call you Mr. President, but there’s no time for formalities. You better move fast if you’re going to save California’s hi...

/ 4 years ago

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