Archive for October 2025

Miss the newspaper? The Mercury News and East Bay Times e-editions fit our printed pages on your screens. Halloween amid an immigration crackdown: Bay Area cities are assuring their residents that everyone will be protected as they take their children trick-or-treating and mark Día de Los Muertos. Here’s what police in Antioch, Brentwood, Oakland and San…

 I’m sharing this exclusively with Americans who actually care! Before you and your neighbors see the same Californian mess in your state…I Thank you,

“Money With Wallet” by Chris Potter, CC BY 2.0 SC County residents have already begun voting on a 5/8-cent sales tax increase, which they’re told will be “temporary” and will “save the hospitals.” But are either of these incantations believable? SVBA’s Pat Waite flips through county’s greatest hits: so-called “temporary” taxes that never went away—and underdelivered on what…

The proposed redrawing of districts would put their re-election to Congress at grave risk next November. 

Friend,  We are Charlie Kirk.  That’s the rally cry of millions of Americans — and the message they carry with their “We are Charlie Kirk” wristbands.  We want you to have one. To join the movement carrying Charlie’s legacy forward

Dear John, Thank You, -Team HiltonAuthorized by Steve Hilton for Governor 2026

August 8, 2025 Santa Clara County leaders keep stacking “just a little more” onto the sales tax rate—now eyeing a countywide health-care tax atop SB 63’s potential 0.5% transit levy. With flat population and a county budget that’s tripled since 2012, residents are paying more for the same potholes and emptier buses & trains. Athan…

“Tax Return – 1040” by 401(K) 2012, CC BY-SA 2.0 Taxpayers should demand accountability from their government, said Los Altos Institution fellow Athan Joshi. At a rally against Measure A, the Opportunity Now wunderkind contributor (he’s in high school) reminded his audience that the 5/8-cent sales tax is the latest, but not the last, in a decades-long…

Survey on redistricting measure: Proposition 50 appears likely to pass at the ballot box, with 56% of respondents saying they plan to vote for it, according to a Public Policy Institute of California poll. The move comes on the heels of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unusual message to supporters.  San Leandro official faces federal charges: City Councilman Bryan Azevedo…