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, ...

EDITOR: Jeffrey J. Olson ( “Countercultural values,” Letters, May 7) succinctly hits a point left out in Pete Golis’ April 27 ...

Fifteen incarcerated women are set to graduate on Friday with a certificate in hair-braiding as part of a first-of-its kind ...

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.

Expiring state and federal grants, declining student enrollment and rising operational costs have created budgetary ...

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

Only 14 school districts and county offices of education have begun billing for behavioral health services under the Children ...

Federally recognized tribes say the Trump administration cut the grant money they use to sustain the local libraries that ...