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Webeck: How Oracle Park stacks up around MLB after visiting all 30 ballparks
A tour of baseball’s cathedrals, from the palatial to the pitiful, is an experience unique unto itself in sports — and in America.
Feds sues Visa, saying company is driving up card costs for businesses, consumers
The complaint says Visa penalizes merchants and banks who don’t use Visa’s payment processing technology to process debit transactions, even though alternatives exist.
Loan for proposed San Jose housing site gets buyer, foreclosure looms
The loan for a San Jose site where a two huge housing towers were proposed — but never broke ground — has been bought by a Texas-based group.
Opinion: Minimum wage hikes are driving surge in youth unemployment
Employers who may have used entry-level labor will move toward older, longer-term workers to justify higher costs.
Gov. Newsom signs bill limiting homebuyer sales contracts to 3 months
The National Association of Realtors settlement made such agreements mandatory for virtually all buyers.
Opinion: Unjust closure of Antioch Amtrak station deserves a closer look
Sudden decision sets a dangerous precedent for all communities, especially transit-dependent, low-income areas of color.
Opinion: Santa Clara County should follow Oakland, Berkeley in ranked choice voting
RCV eliminates spring primaries and increases participation — specifically among young voters and people of color.
Former FTX executive Caroline Ellison sentenced to 2 years in prison for fraud
The judge said prison time was necessary because she participated in what might be the “greatest financial fraud ever …”
Gov. Newsom signs California law banning medical debt from credit reports
It will block health care providers, as well as any contracted collection agency, from sharing a patient’s medical debt with credit reporting agencies.
French: MAGA wants transgression, and this is what comes with it
Trump has molded GOP to support horrific characters like Mark Robinson, and any objections meet only scorn and contempt.