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Newsom Tussles With Local Officials Over Homelessness

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Throughout Gavin Newsom’s governorship, he and ...

Newsom Tussles With Local Officials Over Homelessness

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Throughout Gavin Newsom’s governorship, he and ...

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California’s War Over Charter Schools Rages On in Court

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The decades-long wars among the kingdoms of medieval ...

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Why Did the California Senate Shunt a Cost-Cutting Housing Bill?

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Last month, RAND, a prominent think tank based in San...

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Fresno’s Crime Beat Didn’t Prepare Me for What I Saw on a Ride Along

Anthony W. Haddad The Millennial View For almost two years, I’ve written on the crime beat in Fresno — missing persons, homicides, arsons, D...

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The MAGA Revolution Threatens America’s Most Innovative Place

Science sometimes advances not by design but by happenstance. Thirty years ago a graduate student in chemical engineering at the Massachuset...

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California’s High Living Costs and Rampant Poverty Sharpen Its Economic Divide

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Forty years ago, I wrote a series of 14 articles for ...

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Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat

Nicholas Kristof OpinionOpinion by Nicholas Kristof on May 21, 2025. The question I get most often is: What can we do to take our country ba...

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Test Your Memorial Day Knowledge With This Quiz

Memorial Day is when we pause and honor those who gave their lives for our freedom. Some were famous men who died in battle. Others were unk...

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Gavin Newsom’s Off-the-Mark Budget Numbers Undermine His Credibility Again

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised state budget assume...

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The Trump-Supporting Christians Accusing Jews of Antisemitism

In The New York Times this weekend, Katie J.M. Baker described a fundraising pitch that the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank t...

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A wildfire near State Route 41 and Avenue 11 in Madera County’s Rolling Hills area has prompted evacuation advisories and warnings for residents to prepare to leave if conditions worsen. (Madera County SO/UC San Diego)
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Madera County’s Rolling Hills Area Wildfire Prompts Evacuation Advisories

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Judge Rules Next Fresno County Sheriff, DA Elections Are in 2028

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The Central Unified School District Board of Trustees has announced their intention to appoint Dr. Mark Marshall as the new superintendent. (GV Wire Composite/Paul Marshall)
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Central Unified Trustees Choose Their Next Superintendent

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Demonstrators protest outside the Center for Disease Control, in Atlanta, after the Trump administration began mass layoffs of 10,000 staffers at U.S. health agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services, including the FDA, CDC and the National Institutes of Health, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. April 1, 2025. REUTERS/Megan Varner/File Photo
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Trump Asks US Supreme Court to Allow Mass Federal Layoffs

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