At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges.  

Dynamics have shifted dramatically in California's Capitol since Gov. Jerry Brown returned two years ago -- both fiscal and political dynamics. The two are intertwined.  

Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge.  

Doctors worry that Angelina Jolie's courageous decision to go public with her preventive double mastectomy will prompt more women than necessary to opt for the radical procedure.  

Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government's large capacity for misbehavior.  

The unfunded liability at the California State Teachers' Retirement System is perhaps lawmakers' most difficult fiscal challenge. Yet Gov. Jerry Brown, who claims he wants to reform pensions and brags about retiring state debt, ignores the elephant in the room.  

The woes in Hercules' dysfunctional city government have been well detailed in these pages during recent years.A witch's brew of gross financial mismanagement, breathtaking incompetence and rampant corruption pushed this lovely bayside community to the brink of financial ruin and placed it in a  

While the shake-up of the Oakland Police command staff has left officers and residents unsettled, it provides a long-overdue opportunity to restore order within the department and on the streets.  

Overseas factory workers should be helped to organize  

This paper's editorial board wants to stop California's Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) (Editorial, "Bay Area can't afford to lose Delta water fight" May 3).  

The first time I held a gun I was 11. It was heavy and silver, a revolver. My older cousin was a pretty black girl in Oakland coming of age during the crack epidemic.  

Since U.S. News & World Report began ranking colleges 30 years ago, that magazine has discovered a niche in the ratings industry. USN&WR ranks careers, hospitals, businesses and world leaders, but the magazine's biggest market has been its rankings of everything having to do with education  

As the clock ticks toward the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage, one benefit of equality under the law is often overlooked: health. We know stable relationships and family ties are cornerstones of health, but what does research say about how denying gay and lesbian Americans marriage is  

University of California Berkeley Professor Dacher Keltner, an expert in social psychology and well-known author, discusses how kids could react to the recent Boston Marathon bombings.  

University of California Berkeley Professor Dacher Keltner, director of the Greater Good Science Center and author of "Born to be Good" and other related books, talks to the Bay Area News Group about how people cope in the post-9/11 era.  

Center for Catastrophic Risk Management Founder Karlene Roberts has studied how errors have led to some of the largest disasters among major projects. She expresses her concerns about the Bay Bridge eastern span project, which is targeting Labor Day 2013 for completion despite the presence of  

Medical cannabis advocate and Harborside Health Center (Oakland, Calif.) Director Steve DeAngelo believes the California Supreme Court's vote to allow cities and counties to ban dispensaries forces patients into the black market for marijuana.  

Harborside Health Center (Oakland, Calif.) cannabis dispensary director Steve DeAngelo sees "no good reason" why marijuana should continue to be illegal to possess.  

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