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Emily DeRuy

California, San Jose

Housing Reporter at The Mercury News

Coffee-chugging, travel-loving @mercnews @eastbaytimes housing/economy editor. Profile 📷: Karl Mondon. Reach me at [email protected]

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  • Mar 23, 2025 | mercurynews.com | Emily DeRuy

    “It’s rarely a good thing for a CEO or a brand to become the butt of jokes.”— Sam Singer, a prominent Bay Area crisis-management consultant, on investors urging controversial Tesla CEO Elon Musk to save the electric car company, which has struggled amid Musk’s work inside the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency.

  • Feb 23, 2025 | mercurynews.com | Emily DeRuy

    “They have the votes and we don’t.”— South Bay Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a veteran Democrat, on her party’s lack of power to stop President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans from taking drastic steps to shrink the federal government.

  • Jul 14, 2024 | eastbaytimes.com | Emily DeRuy

  • Jul 7, 2024 | mercurynews.com | Emily DeRuy

    “It’s a little exhausting. I don’t want to say we’re getting used to it. But we’ve all gotten really good at evacuating. The community comes together.”— Trevor Smith, owner of Big Red’s California BBQ in Oroville, where thousands this week fled the Thompson Fire amid windy, brutally hot weather. Butte County has suffered multiple disasters in recent years, including 2018’s deadly Camp Fire.

  • Dec 11, 2023 | mercurynews.com | Emily DeRuy

    A story that ran Thursday, Dec. 7, on the front page incorrectly stated the number of people Hamas terrorists killed in Israel on Oct. 7. Hamas killed about 1,200 people.

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Emily DeRuy @Emily_DeRuy
12 Apr 23

RT @NateGartrell: #NEW: For years, Antioch cops routinely flouted racist views in text groups with other officers, and received laughter, i…

Emily DeRuy
Emily DeRuy @Emily_DeRuy
25 Sep 22

Marisa spent countless hours on this (all while continuing her daily beat reporting). Worth your time.

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Marisa Kendall @MarisaKendall

The Bay Area has invested big in "tiny homes" as a solution to its homelessness crisis. But do they actually help people get long-term housing? I spent 5 months investigating that ? as a @USCAnnenberg @ReportingHealth fellow. @mercnews @EastBayTimes https://t.co/rve6OdIIcK

Emily DeRuy
Emily DeRuy @Emily_DeRuy
21 Sep 22

RT @3rdERH: "Deward Hastings took his time warming up to new people. The opposite can be said about his backyard Berkeley hot tub." Great s…