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The Mercury News - Politics

They said it: Data centers spark backlash

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Latest line: A good week for John Ternus, a bad week for Patti Poppe

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San Mateo County to decide future of guaranteed income program for domestic violence survivors

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US strikes 3 Iranian oil tankers after saying warships were targeted with ballistic missiles

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Trump's super PAC will spend $10 million on Texas Senate race

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Putin meets with US envoys at the Kremlin for renewed talks on ending the war in Ukraine

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Sonoma County Farm Bureau, immigrant advocates clash over stance on ICE reporting

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A new California law will ban watering decorative grass, even in non-drought years, starting Jan. 1

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Judge refuses to block Pentagon from firing Stars and Stripes staffers over CBS interview

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Federal judge extends block on Trump executive order seeking to limit mail voting in the midterms

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Trump and Kennedy's health industry deals haven't been enforced and are at risk of vanishing

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State watchdog fines Matt Mahan $27,500 after $2.3 million in donation disclosures were delayed

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Cash buried in California politician's backyard helped expose huge marijuana corruption scheme

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San Jose just greenlit an affordable housing project for a long-empty lot—but with a strict safeguard against developer delays

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Martinez officials reiterate commitment to marina improvements

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Joffe: Vote 'no' on Regional Transit Measure. It will burden Bay Area's poorest and isn't needed to 'save transit.'

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Why East San Jose hospital is boosting ER beds

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How California plans to be voters' 'first line of defense'

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California lawmakers pass bill allowing people to identify their Jewish ancestry on state forms

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California Legislature withdraws a controversial wildfire liability bill. What now?

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Big Tech's data center boom is igniting a political revolt in the Bay Area

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Schaaf: Vote 'yes' on Regional Transit Measure. We can't afford to let Bay Area transit collapse.

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Opinion: California's top earners are thriving. Prop. 3 asks them to keep paying their share.

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Oda: Birthright citizenship is not a wartime exception

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California's fight against Trump's unhinged war on voting by mail

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Wahab sworn in as first Afghan American to serve in Congress

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