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Max Taves

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Covers:  Politics and economics of the Bay Area, particularly Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, as well as California-wide issues.
Doesn't Cover: UFOs, gremlins, the Kardashians, yacht sales and traffic jams.
Editorial page editor & columnist at Bay Area News Group's @mercnews & @eastbaytimes. Columns in 25+ US dailies. Ex-columnist @WSJ & @CBSi-@CNET & @LAWeekly.
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Taves: Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is paving California's road to hell

Taves: Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is paving California's road to hell

The Mercury News — A new state insurance regulation, expanding homeowners' coverage in the most flammable areas, greases the wheels of California's suicidal building machine
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Why Men Need To Rethink Their Budding Bromance With the GOP

Why Men Need To Rethink Their Budding Bromance With the GOP

DCReport — The gender gap widens, as men shift toward the GOP and Trump while women increasingly support Democrats and Harris.
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Immigrants from Central America aren't stealing jobs. They're running for their lives | Opinion

Immigrants from Central America aren't stealing jobs. They're running for their lives | Opinion

The Sacramento Bee — "The immigrants, whom Americans fear most, have fled failed states torn apart by gangs armed with American guns fighting to supply Americans drugs."
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Immigrants from Central America aren't stealing jobs. They're running for their lives | Opinion

Immigrants from Central America aren't stealing jobs. They're running for their lives | Opinion

The Sacramento Bee — "The immigrants, whom Americans fear most, have fled failed states torn apart by gangs armed with American guns fighting to supply Americans drugs."
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Here's what Turkish President Erdoğan and Alabama's Tommy Tuberville have in common | Opinion

Here's what Turkish President Erdoğan and Alabama's Tommy Tuberville have in common | Opinion

Fresno Bee — "The far-from-virtuous few continue exploiting institutions requiring unanimity to delay, disrupt and deny the will of the righteous many."
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Why Confidence in Republican Economic Competence is Misplaced | DCReport.org

Why Confidence in Republican Economic Competence is Misplaced | DCReport.org

DCReport — Democrats face economic confidence decline as recent polls show Republicans' surging advantage, per a new Gallup poll.
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Why do Republicans hate higher education? Here's the sinister reason | Opinion

Why do Republicans hate higher education? Here's the sinister reason | Opinion

Yahoo News — Instead of changing their policies to appeal to the educated, Republicans are changing education to make their policies appealing.
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Pro-Life? Republican States Have a Dying Problem | DCReport.org

Pro-Life? Republican States Have a Dying Problem | DCReport.org

DCReport — Republicans claim to be pro-life, although according to data, their states have the biggest dying problems.
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Here's what Turkish President Erdoğan and Alabama's Tommy Tuberville have in common | Opinion

Here's what Turkish President Erdoğan and Alabama's Tommy Tuberville have in common | Opinion

Kansas City Star — "The far-from-virtuous few continue exploiting institutions requiring unanimity to delay, disrupt and deny the will of the righteous many."
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President Biden's broadband plan favors Republicans who voted against him | Opinion

President Biden's broadband plan favors Republicans who voted against him | Opinion

The Modesto Bee — President Biden's federal broadband plan falls into a familiar pattern: favoring Republican states and disadvantaging liberal Californians
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Critics predicted California would lose Silicon Valley to Texas. They were dead wrong

Critics predicted California would lose Silicon Valley to Texas. They were dead wrong

The Sacramento Bee — Despite media reports to the contrary, California's economy did not lose out to Texas last year, nor did the state lose its Silicon Valley technology empire.
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Why 'Hank the Tank' isn't the only bear on a collision course with California's humans

Why 'Hank the Tank' isn't the only bear on a collision course with California's humans

The Sacramento Bee — California's bears and mountain lions are its newest climate refugees, reluctantly migrating toward our cities as we recklessly building toward their mountains.
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Taves: Suicidal policies jeopardize Silicon Valley's AI dreams

Taves: Suicidal policies jeopardize Silicon Valley's AI dreams

The Mercury News — President Trump's attacks on universities and immigrants sabotage the Bay Area's - and America's - tech ambitions.
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Taves: 'Capitulation wrought by fear,' top Silicon Valley executives mum to Trump's extortion

Taves: 'Capitulation wrought by fear,' top Silicon Valley executives mum to Trump's extortion

The Mercury News — Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Meta and Alphabet CEOs silent as president forces companies to share equity and profits.
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