22+ hour, 47+ min ago   (405+ words) When is 16% not 16%? When the Sonoma County Fire District wants to avoid an audit that would shine sunlight on the ambulance provider’s books. County supervisors should refuse and demand a thorough public vetting. The district won an exclusive contract to…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1093+ words) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon leave office without gaining the support of fellow Californians for his most ambitious climate project: the banning of new gas-burning car sales by 2035. Newsom issued an executive order in 2020 taking new fossil-fueled passenger…...

21+ hour, 43+ min ago   (674+ words) By EDITH M. LEDERER U.N. member nations rejected a U.S. proposal to delay the vote until the end of next week as well as a Russian proposal to extend Türk’s term just until the end of the year. The vote in the 193-member…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1321+ words) “There was this emptiness to it,” recalls Myers, of Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh. He turned to the biblical Book of Psalms — its hymns, poetry and prayers covering “the entire spectrum of human existence and emotion, from elation to…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (796+ words) By PATRICK WHITTLE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Jackson, a progressive Democrat, is a former president of the state’s Democratic-controlled Senate who has been a fixture in Maine politics for many years. He’s also a fifth-generation logger from a rural, heavily Republican…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1718+ words) After more than two years and tens of thousands of formal complaints pleading for relief from the sound of roaring jet departures overhead, residents of western Sonoma County got a temporary reprieve this month, reporting a dramatic reduction in flight…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (772+ words) By HOLLY RAMER and ROBERT F. BUKATY David and Sara LeBlanc had a rotating display of the roughly 6-foot-tall ornaments decorating their Ogunquit lawn until officials in the small coastal town deemed them to be impermissible advertising for their attached restaurant,…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (401+ words) Some Democrats are squaring off with President Donald Trump’s administration over one of the most potent political issues in the country ahead of this year’s midterm elections: Social Security. The social safety net program that financially supports more than 70 million…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1753+ words) Rep. Jared Huffman witnessed the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, up close, from his office on Capitol Hill. These were not gentle, Sermon on the Mount-style expressions of faith. “The MAGA Christian nationalism Trump stoked,” Huffman, a seven-term Democrat from San Rafael…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (690+ words) Request for more world news Editor: I want to let you know that I completely and totally agree with the letter wanting more grown up news, instead of the trivia childish news that we are served daily in your newspaper…...