Spending priorities | Taxing consumers | Health care. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for May 25, 2025.

EDITOR: As a student at Santa Rosa High, I like the school’s decision to install a fence around the campus. I think it will ...

Fix the commercial market so working-age Americans can afford private insurance and preserve Medicaid for those who truly ...

Not everybody can say an idea they had at 23 would lead to a movement that is still thriving more than five decades later, ...

Iran and the U.S. have see-sawed between enmity and grudging diplomacy in the years since, with relations peaking when Tehran ...

Despite San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's claim his policy to arrest homeless people for refusing shelter is meant to connect them to treatment, there isn't a plan for how it's supposed to work.

Vincent O’Bannon was convicted of commercial burglary and sentenced to serve 28 years to life plus four months under ...

Sam Houston Elementary on Throckmorton Street in Oak Lawn, a block from the Cedar Springs bars, will close at the end of the ...

California cities and counties are supposed to work together to help their homeless residents. But those partnerships can be ...

California cities and counties are supposed to work together to help their homeless residents. But those partnerships can be ...

This story was originally published . Sign up for their newsletters. By Ana B. Ibarra,CalMatters California made a huge one-time investment in youth mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic as rates ...

I recently completed the Civic Leadership Academy with the city of Winchester. Led by the city’s Communications Director Kit Redmer, and Public Information Officer Sarah Frey, the program takes place ...