Opinion - Mercury News - 2010-06-23 01:12:16.
Mercury News editorial: Schwarzenegger gets pensions turned back in right direction
It's been more than a decade since then-Gov. Gray Davis set in motion California's wild escalation of pension costs.
Opinion - Mercury News - 2010-06-23 01:12:16.
Mercury News editorial: Things are so bad, hardly anybody noticed California budget deadline
California's lawmakers failed to meet their constitutional deadline to pass a state budget by June 15 — again.
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Opinion: Ruben Navarrette Jr.: New grads would be wise to heed Obama's message
Commencement speeches are part lip service and part lip biting. You feel you should tell the graduates how great they are and how the future is full of bright, sunny days.
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Opinion: Friedman: Letter from Istanbul
A series of vacuums that emerged in and around Turkey in the last few years have drawn Turkey’s Islamist government — led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party — away from its balance point between East and West.
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Mercury News editorial: Still time for San Jose union agreements
It was a relief to see one of San Jose's unions, representing the legal staff, reach agreement Monday on compensation cuts to help the city balance its budget without massive layoffs and service reductions.
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Mercury News editorial: San Jose: Olympics town USA?
The Olympic Trials for gymnastics — perhaps the premier Summer Games qualifying event — is coming to San Jose in 2012.
