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Chronicle Editorials

In December 2010, the U.S. inflation rate was reported at 1.5 percent. The average inflation rate in the United States from the years...

Here we go again. The impresario of the world's most valuable tech firm is taking sick leave - for the third time in a decade. And...

Gov. Jerry Brown pledged to deliver an "honest budget" without the "smoke and mirrors" that have contained only an illusion of balance...

Gov. Jerry Brown has barely taken office, but he's already presented an audacious plan for the state budget. It's audacious to presume...

Open Forum

The America Competes legislation recently signed into law includes a provision I authored to require the preparation of an updated...

The recent job numbers demonstrated yet again that it's a mistake to assume that happy days are here again. A major reason for the...

Early one morning a few weeks ago, we received an urgent message at Direct Relief's headquarters: "Many people are going to die - and...

Saying the weather hasn't been cold in the Bay Area this winter won't make it true. Saying the political climate had nothing to do...

This is one of the saddest moments in American politics. An innocent 9-year old girl, Christina Green, is dead. Before her parents...

Sunday Insight

Sunday, January 16, 2011 Edition

	No, cities depend on those funds to develop affordable housing
	Yes, if the choice is between money for schools and money for developers
	No, the funds eliminate blight and increase local tax revenues
	Yes, it's corporate welfare we can't afford

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