CEQA was enacted at a time when new highways and highway expansion was destroying communities, and a big part of the reason to create CEQA in the first place. Prop 45 would roll out the red carpet for...

Key findings of the PPIC Statewide Survey include: Democrat Xavier Becerra maintains a wide lead over Republican Steve Hilton in the governor’s race. Likely voters are somewhat divided on a billionair...

After more than a decade of designing, debating and dreaming of grade separation at three local rail crossings, Palo Alto’s elected leaders are preparing to narrow their scope and focus their energy o...

The candidate for insurance commissioner has campaigned on a platform of smoke and mirrors: big talk, little respect for the facts, and at times outright falsehoods.

A developer that proposed the largest housing development ever in this San Francisco neighborhood is more than doubling the number of homes at the site and adding three stories to the project.

Parsing what we can actually say based on the evidence

A bill to exempt the proposed shipyard from environmental analysis is doing the time warp again.

Take action to demand that Governor Newsom and our legislators reject a last-minute bill favoring California Forever and bypassing environmental laws for industrial shipbuilding plans in Solano. Read ...

A proposed bill could speed California Forever’s Solano shipyard plans while leaving its housing and manufacturing ambitions for later.

An informal mixer to meet candidates running across Alameda County this fall. Grab a drink, ask questions, and get a feel for who's on your ballot.