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No action on bill that would stop corporations that try to avoid taxes by shirking their American citizenship.

Market-based solutions have failed to work. Yet having the government manufacture some of the drugs remains the option that no one considers. Why not?

Lawsuit highlights state's failure to fund K-12 at level agreed necessary in 2007.

Should nurse practitioners continue to supplant doctors in the provision of primary care, despite the substantial additional training that doctors receive?

San Jose’s problems can be solved, but only if structural causes are addressed, including inequities in Silicon Valley, a nationwide tax incentive competition, and California’s restrictions on local revenue.

Decades of inequitable development and intra-regional competition have created a deeply divided Silicon Valley, one where the city of San Jose bears most of the burden.

San Jose's 30-year quest to be an "entrepreneurial city." A single-minded focus on corporate-based redevelopment never paid off for the city's residents.

The current administration in San Jose points to "excessive" retirement benefits for its workers as causing its budget woes. But "blame the workers" doesn't adequately explain San Jose's chronic troubles.

Silicon Valley has starkly failed to deliver on the promise of shared prosperity; the city of San Jose is Exhibit A.

Does continued growth equal regional death?

It's a solvable problem, but Congress is apparently content with adults being stuck struggling at a third-grade reading level or below.