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mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton
Climate change authorsmust pick up the tabYour article highlights a growing crisis: disappearing insurance options, soaring premiums, and a future where many Californians may be unable to insure their homes at all. We’re paying for preventable disasters we didn’t cause. Our homes are burning, and floods and drought are crushing small businesses, while insurers pull out and polluters — who knowingly fueled this crisis — rake in record profits.
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1 week ago | 
mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton
Cortese bill on schoolfunding is a startI was shocked to learn that, even in 2025, California’s school funding remains unfair just as it was back in 1971. It is outrageous that a child’s education still depends on the ZIP code where they live. Wealthy districts continue to thrive, while others are struggling with limited resources. This is not equality in education. State Sen.
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1 week ago | 
mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Despite guardrails,school tax a blank checkRe: “School district plan has ambitious goals” (Page B1, April 11). Supporters of the Acalanes Union High School District parcel tax measure (Measure T) have not pointed to any cost-saving efforts by the district. The proposed guardrails are illusory.
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1 week ago | 
mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton
San Jose’s threats areno help to homelessWith the recent news about San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s approach to deal with homelessness, his “common sense” solutions dangerously treat poverty and mental illnesses as criminal offenses. His emphasis on the plan to punish those who refuse the shelter opportunity after three offers within 18 months has raised legal and ethical concerns.
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1 week ago | 
mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Apple’s biggest problemis groveling for TrumpRe: “Tariffs are only adding to Apple’s troubles” (Page A1, April 12). Shortly after this article was published, Donald Trump exempted smartphones and other electronics from some tariffs imposed on Chinese imports. This directly and significantly benefits Apple, which produces many of its products in China.
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1 week ago | 
mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Americans deservebetter than MuskAs a former career Navy officer who has worked with many professional and dedicated civil servants over the years, I find Elon Musk’s attitude toward government employees offensive and ignorant. For instance, saying he would send USAID into a woodchipper reflects disregard for what these employees do in taking care of needy people around the world.
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1 week ago | 
mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered the operator of the Keystone Pipeline to take several corrective actions after a rupture caused 147,000 gallons of oil to spill onto farmland in North Dakota, and the company said its goal is to resume deliveries to refineries on Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton
SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro remained hospitalized with abdominal pain Saturday and was expected to be transferred by medical aircraft from northeastern Brazil to the capital Brasilia, doctors told journalists. Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized Friday morning with abdominal pain while traveling in northeastern Brazil. The pain was caused by a bowel obstruction and was related to long-term effects of being stabbed in the abdomen in September 2018, his doctors said.
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1 week ago | 
mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton
The Marin County Board of Supervisors is considering a $5.2 million loan to support an 80-unit Habitat for Humanity housing project in north Novato, the county announced Thursday. Located at 8161 Redwood Blvd., the development would include 60 homes designated for low-income families, officials said. The proposed loan would help cover predevelopment and construction costs for the $84 million project, the press release noted.
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1 week ago | 
mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton
BART trains on the red and yellow lines were running with major delays on Saturday morning because of an equipment problem. Service on the yellow line between Antioch and San Francisco International Airport (SFO) was initially disrupted at about 6:10 a.m. Passengers were told for more than two hours to travel to the Millbrae station and transfer there. At about 8:50 a.m., direct service had resumed between Antioch and SFO, but with significant delays.
