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Opinion: CalPERS pension fund should divest fossil fuel holdings
Engagement efforts with Shell, Chevron, Exxon Mobil have failed to produce meaningful change to slow climate change.
Opinion: California’s struggle with homelessness needs congressional help
During the 1980s, federal investments for affordable housing dropped 75% and never recovered.
Opinion: PUC’s narrow approach endangers universal broadband success
California regulators are considering an expensive fiber-only strategy but fixed wireless offers a cheaper alternative.
Opinion: My grandmother escaped Nazi Germany; I think of fleeing the U.S.
Should I, the first American-born in our Jewish family, plan an escape from antisemitism too?
Opinion: Meat industry’s dubious claims of sustainability at COP28
The inconvenient truth is that animal agriculture, particularly beef production, is a major source of...
Opinion: Why I, a doctor constantly confronting death, love Christmas
Just as surely as caring for patients with cancer makes me suspicious of sunny optimism,...
Opinion: Don’t destroy historic Bay Area neighborhoods to solve housing crisis
Without preservation we would have no Palace of Fine Arts, Alamo Square, Tonga Room, Alcatraz...
Opinion: Christmas gifts turbocharge our trash problem. How I cope
By one estimate, we generate more than 25% of our annual waste during the holidays.
Opinion: Office holiday parties return, bringing sexual harassment risk
Unfortunately, in-person gatherings involving alcohol can dangerously blur the lines between workplace and leisure.
Opinion: Stop scapegoating CEQA for California’s affordable housing crisis
The law allows community members to raise critical issues and demand proper environmental review and...
Opinion: Women’s groups have stayed silent too long on Hamas’ violence
The healing process for the survivors of the Oct. 7 assaults begins with being heard...