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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...

/ 3 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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Fresno Man Arrested in Fatal DUI Crash on Trimmer Springs Road

Mourners pray during the funeral of a Palestinian killed in what the Gaza health ministry says was Israeli fire near a distribution center in Rafah, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 15, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
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Israeli Military Kills 41 People in Gaza, Medics Say

Bullet holes mark the front door of Minnesota state Senator John Hoffman, who was shot alongside his wife, Yvette, in what is believed to be an attack by 57-year-old suspect Vance Luther Boelter, who is also the lead suspect in the shooting deaths of senior Democratic state assemblywoman Melissa Hortman and her husband, Marc, in Champlin, Minnesota, U.S., June 14, 2025. REUTERS/Tim Evans
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Manhunt for Gunman Who Shot Two Minnesota Lawmakers Enters Second Day

Israelis take shelter at the side of a highway as siren sounds following missile attack from Iran on Israel, in central Israel June 15, 2025. REUTERS/Oren Ben Hakoon
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Israel and Iran Bombard Each Other, Trump Says He Can ‘Easily’ End Conflict

President Donald Trump speaks as he attends a military parade to commemorate the U.S. Army's 250th Birthday, on the day of his 79th birthday, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 14, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
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Trump Vetoed an Israeli Plan to Kill Iran’s Supreme Leader, US Officials Say

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Newsom Wanted To Fast-Track the Delta Tunnel Project. The Legislature Slowed the Flow

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Big Fresno Fair Unveils Second Wave of 2025 Concert Acts

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