The San Jose Mercury News Wish Book has been granting the dreams of ambitious and needy Bay Area residents for 27 years. The series told 25 stories th...
Jane Hamsher | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
How will Loefgin justify giving $108 billion in loan guarantees to European banks while her own state goes bankrupt? How will anybody?
Greg Archer | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
The holy game plan? To ordain female deacons as womenpriests and womenpriests as bishops.
Natasha Chen | Posted 04.29.2009 | Home
Chanting "No peace outside, no respect inside" and "Si se puede," workers filed down East Tasman Dr., where Cisco's tens of buildings line both sides of the street.
Stephen Kaus | Posted 04.28.2009 | Entertainment
The ownership of the Oakland Athletics does not really want fans to come to the ballpark. There is no other way to explain the systematic downgrading of the experience of attending a game.
gas2.org | Written by Gavin Newsom | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green
Last November, I joined Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed to announce a nine-step policy plan for transforming the Bay Area into...
AP | MARIANELA JIMENEZ | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A strong earthquake shook Costa Rica on Thursday, killing at least three people and sending frightened residents running ...
Tom Hayden | Posted 02.09.2009 | Style
Robert Graham's fear has come true; LA leads California, California leads America, and America leads the world, in the population of the incarcerated, most of them young men of color.
Deborah Copaken Kogan | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living
We need government-subsidized daycare. We're one of the only industrialized nations in the world that doesn't meet this most basic need for its working families.
Claire Bidwell Smith | Posted 12.01.2008 | Green
In August my husband and I traveled to Costa Rica for what was supposed to be one of the world's first "Carbon Neutral Vacations." Our 7 day, 6 night trip began with a stay in San Jose.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.10.2008 | Living
Marriage isn't anybody's right. No one has a right to gay marriage, it's not in the Constitution. So under the law, there's no given right. The only time the "right" comes up is when someone tries to take it away.
Forbes | Kurt Badenhausen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
For two years, we have been hearing about the negative savings rate in this country. Americans spend more than we make, so the chorus goes. The govern...
Posted 12.28.2009 | Impact