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Latest line: A good week for Matt Mahan, a bad week for Elon Musk
Matt Mahan San Jose mayor, who broke with fellow Democrat Gavin Newsom to support Prop 36, a ballot measure to toughen retail theft and fentanyl penalties, is vindicated as a new poll shows 71% of...
View ArticleThey said it: A hardball goodbye
“Since I walked in, it has been super emotional. There were moments throughout the game, moments of realization that it was really our last game. This is it, our last home game. I started crying after...
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Latest line: A good week for Sam Liccardo, a bad week for John Fisher
Sam Liccardo A new USC poll shows the San Jose former mayor with an 11-point lead over Assemblyman and fellow Democrat Evan Low in the closely watched battle to succeed Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, in...
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Latest line: A good week for Buster Posey, a bad week for Pamela Price
Buster Posey Former San Francisco Giants star catcher is named president of baseball operations of the team following the firing of Farhan Zaidi, and will now attempt a return to the playoffs for the...
View ArticleThey said it: What hard-to-handle foster teens have to say
“When you try to be our mommy and daddy, you get a little bit of kickback. We are children that were abused and have not been able to have a voice. We are going to use it now.” — Destiny, one of two...
View ArticleThey said it: San Jose councilman indulging dark fantasies?
“Outrageous fantasy and role play.” — Nelson McElmurry, lawyer for San Jose City Councilman Omar Torres, on the councilman’s alleged text message exchanges with a Chicago man Torres has accused of...
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Latest line: A good week for Adam Schiff, a bad week for Omar Torres
Adam Schiff Leading by more than 20 points in polls in the U.S. Senate race, Democratic congressman bests Republican rival Steve Garvey in their only one-on-one debate and heads for an apparent...
View ArticleThey said it: What open meeting law?
“If I’m not going to jail for violating the Brown Act, I don’t care if I break the law.” — Grace H. Mah, a Santa Clara County Office of Education board member, according to an investigation report to...
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Latest line: A good week for Stanford, a bad week for the Catholic Church
Stanford University The university’s endowment, which pays for most of its programs, grows to $37 billion, the third-largest in the nation behind Harvard’s and Yale’s, and up 8.6% a year on average...
View ArticleThey said it: Former Oakland mayor backs successor’s recall
“I am voting to recall Mayor Thao because Oakland can’t afford another two years of continued damage to our fiscal solvency and our public safety.” — Libby Schaaf, Oakland’s former mayor, on supporting...
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Latest line: A good week for Walmart, a bad week for BART
Walmart Having given $3.6 million, the retail giant is the largest donor to the Proposition 36 campaign, which would raise penalties for theft and drugs. New polls show it heading for a big victory....
View ArticleThey said it: Alameda councilwoman’s police encounter
“I’m good.” — Alameda City Council member Trish Herrera Spencer, in police body camera video made public last week, to Long Beach first responders who found her intoxicated and lying on the ground...
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Latest line: A good week for Hollywood, a bad week for David DePape
Hollywood Gov. Gavin Newsom announces plans to expand state tax credits for TV and movie productions from $330 million to $750 million a year, just as film producers and stars are donating big to...
View ArticleThey said it: Something to cheer for red voters in blue California
“There are enough people saying, ‘what happened to my country in the last four years?’ that they want Trump back as our president.” — Liz Ritchie, of Knightsen, who joined other Contra Costa County...
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Latest line: A good week for Elon Musk, a bad week for Kamala Harris
Elon Musk Tesla CEO who once supported Hillary Clinton endorsed Trump, donated $119 million to elect him and now says he will accept Trump’s offer to oversee efforts to impose major cuts on federal...
View ArticleThey said it: Sheriff here to stay?
“The inquiry was politically motivated, one-sided and filled with lies. . . I am the sheriff of this county, elected by the people of San Mateo County, and I will not be bullied.” — San Mateo County...
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Latest line: A good week for David Valadao, a bad week for Christina Corpus
David Valadao Low-key Republican dairy farmer wins fifth term to the House of Representatives, despite being in a San Joaquin Valley district that Joe Biden carried in 2020 and Democrats spent...
View ArticleThey said it: A young survivor’s sorrow
“We would have gotten out of this together.” — Jude Khammoungkhoune, 13, of San Jose, returning to the Sonoma County coast for a prayer service for his father, Prasong, who was lost at sea after rough...
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Latest line: A good week for the California Apartment Association, a bad week...
California Apartment Association Landlord group wins big as AP calls Prop 34, the ballot measure it funded to block political spending by the LA-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which bankrolled...
View ArticleThey said it: DA lays down law on county hospitals’ gruesome waste disposal
“The county must stop illegally dumping human blood and human flesh. This is not a polite bureaucratic request from one county agency to another. This is the law, and we are enforcing it.” — Santa...
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