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Should nurse practitioners continue to supplant doctors in the provision of primary care, despite the substantial additional training that doctors receive?

San Jose’s problems can be solved, but only if structural causes are addressed, including inequities in Silicon Valley, a nationwide tax incentive competition, and California’s restrictions on local revenue.

Decades of inequitable development and intra-regional competition have created a deeply divided Silicon Valley, one where the city of San Jose bears most of the burden.

San Jose's 30-year quest to be an "entrepreneurial city." A single-minded focus on corporate-based redevelopment never paid off for the city's residents.

The current administration in San Jose points to "excessive" retirement benefits for its workers as causing its budget woes. But "blame the workers" doesn't adequately explain San Jose's chronic troubles.

Silicon Valley has starkly failed to deliver on the promise of shared prosperity; the city of San Jose is Exhibit A.

Does continued growth equal regional death?

It's a solvable problem, but Congress is apparently content with adults being stuck struggling at a third-grade reading level or below.

A pilot project opens the door to squeezing people into spaces as small as 250 square feet. Beneficial innovation or retrograde lowering of living standards?

In most of New York State, it doesn’t matter what “metal level” you choose: you can’t get an individual or family health insurance plan on the state’s exchange that provides coverage for out-of-network physician care. How did the exchange come to be designed without a requirement of such coverage? That’s what the insurers chose. And some advocates for better health care are concerned.

Both the economy and quality of life would get a boost if U.S. retirees spent as much as old people elsewhere. Why don’t they? The lack of an adequate safety net breeds fear.