Saturday March 20, 2010 Updated 12:13 AM PDT

Does America need a national broadband plan?

Score one for science. A national panel waded into California's water wars and sided with salmon and smelt in a politically loaded...
Japan's image is taking a beating over runaway Prius sedans, a problem it's trying to mend with apologies and major recalls. So why...
When the American consumer era of easy credit came crashing to an end in 2008, the federal government stepped into the gaping hole...
In a blow to NIMBYism, an Alameda County judge has invalidated the city of Pleasanton's voter-approved housing cap. Pleasanton boasts...

Regarding your editorial "On a Redwood City Development: Against the bay" (March 4), I am compelled to correct inaccuracies mistakenly...

When writing about charter schools, journalists regularly include some variation of this sentence: "Charters are independently...
As anyone who has visited our schools knows, our kids learn the values of capitalism through an educational model that rewards...
This is Nancy Pelosi's moment. There is no way for the public to know what is going on behind closed doors at the Capitol this week...
Twenty years ago, as mayor of San Francisco, I faced a difficult decision over the fate of the Embarcadero Freeway after the 1989...
In the coming days, the House and Senate will take a critical up-or-down vote on historic health insurance reforms. Tied to them will...

Sunday, March 14, 2010 Edition
These SFGate.com articles and photo collections received the most page views in the week ended Friday morning at 11: Articles 1. Lone...
The ideological gap between California's political parties is vast and deep. The result is legislative inaction on many of the state's...
This month, the U.S. Census Bureau will be mailing out its questionnaire to every household in the country in preparation for April 1...
"Each of us counts and deserves to be counted. This only happens once every 10 years. I want to live in a better community and look...

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By Michael Van Derwood My decision to move to San Francisco was met with laughter and distasteful comments...