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The Editorial Board

The editorial board and opinion section staff are independent of the news-gathering side of our organization. Through our staff-written editorials, we take positions on important issues affecting our readership, from pension reform to protecting our region’s unique natural resources to transportation. The editorials are unsigned because, while written by one or more members of our staff, they represent the point of view of our news organization’s management. In order to take informed positions, we meet frequently with government, community and business leaders on important issues affecting our cities, region and state. During elections, we meet with candidates for office and the proponents and opponents of ballot initiatives and then make recommendations to voters.

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California’s public-employee unions hold an iron grip on the Legislature, which is why — as any perusal of the Transparent California website shows — government salaries and pensions here have reached almost unimaginable levels.

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Public sector union asks for 43% raise

California’s public-employee unions hold an iron grip on the Legislature, which is why — as any perusal of the Transparent California website shows — government salaries and pensions here have...
The number really is shocking: $31.4 trillion — with a “t.” That’s the current debt ceiling for the U.S. government. With the COVID-19 emergency now officially over and the nation not at war, there’s no excuse for raising it even higher unless budget reforms are enacted to bring it down, pronto.

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Get federal spending, debt under control

The number really is shocking: $31.4 trillion — with a “t.” That’s the current debt ceiling for the U.S. government. With the COVID-19 emergency now officially over and the nation...