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Irene Smith, is the only candidate committed for District #3

☆ How Bay Area media uses fearmongering and hero/villain framing to twist issues (2/2)

Twin brothers Deimos and Phobos—Greek gods of fear and panic—always loyally followed their father, Ares,...
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☆ VTA transit workers may strike. Will anyone notice?

Image by Jim Maurer The threatened walkout of local transit workers causes little concern because...

Taxation without realization

Taxation without realization Forty-five million dollars. That's the shortfall SJ City is facing--and it's why...
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☆ Psychology expert: How common cognitive biases deceive Silicon Valley’s policymakers—and voters (1/2)

Giovanni Domenico Tipeolo: Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy, 1760. Image in Public Domain...
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Here’s something everyone agrees on: Governments are corrupt

Mark Grossman: Political Corruption in America: An Encyclopedia of Scandals, Power, and Greed SJ Mayor...
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Opinion: After Stanford’s latest anti-free speech incident, we should be asking (more) questions

Stanford campus. Image by hdz You can’t make this up: on 2.25, a planned debate...

Could letting really small apartments be built (microunits) dramatically relieve housing shortage?

mage by Wikimedia Commons Fans of microunits (as small as 140 sq ft apartments) claim...
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Death of the Reader

Image by a user on Deviantart 21st century academics have flattened the discipline of literature...

☆ From parks to gardens to little-known trails: All your favorite San Jose reading spots

Portrait of English poet John Keats, oil painting by Joseph Severn, 1821. We'll always remember...