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190 subject lines averaging 28 characters.
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| Sep 9, 2026 9:03 AM | The law catches up with CM Peter Ortiz | 38 | Email Template A Free Speech win: Ortiz’ efforts to silence citizen journalist backfires A… | Sep 9, 2026 9:03 AM · 38 characters. Email Template A Free Speech win: Ortiz’ efforts to silence citizen journalist backfires A… | |
| Sep 8, 2026 8:40 PM | Tell Us Which Way To Go | 23 | Tell Us Which Way To Go Welcome to Opp Now's Very First Reader Survey | Sep 8, 2026 8:40 PM · 23 characters. Tell Us Which Way To Go Welcome to Opp Now's Very First Reader Survey | |
| Sep 6, 2026 9:02 AM | Weekend Reading 9/5 | 19 | Email Template Doan1102 , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Sometimes history changes… | Sep 6, 2026 9:02 AM · 19 characters. Email Template Doan1102 , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Sometimes history changes… | |
| Sep 4, 2026 9:06 AM | Modern-day Luddites? | 20 | Email Template Why AI and new techs can be good news for low income workers Local lefty… | Sep 4, 2026 9:06 AM · 20 characters. Email Template Why AI and new techs can be good news for low income workers Local lefty… | |
| Sep 3, 2026 9:08 AM | The greying of Silicon Valley | 29 | Email Template Demography is destiny: what happens when young people flee? The median age… | Sep 3, 2026 9:08 AM · 29 characters. Email Template Demography is destiny: what happens when young people flee? The median age… | |
| Sep 2, 2026 9:10 AM | Reclaiming accountability | 25 | Email Template SF finally gets serious about managing non profits San Francisco will seek… | Sep 2, 2026 9:10 AM · 25 characters. Email Template SF finally gets serious about managing non profits San Francisco will seek… | |
| Sep 1, 2026 9:05 AM | A problem of SJ's own making | 28 | Email Template Merc ignores inconvenient truths --> This week's dubious assertion: “We do… | Sep 1, 2026 9:05 AM · 28 characters. Email Template Merc ignores inconvenient truths --> This week's dubious assertion: “We do… | |
| Aug 31, 2026 9:03 AM | Merc ignores inconvenient truths | 32 | Email Template Merc ignores inconvenient truths --> The Merc blithely continues its… | Aug 31, 2026 9:03 AM · 32 characters. Email Template Merc ignores inconvenient truths --> The Merc blithely continues its… | |
| Aug 30, 2026 1:01 PM | Perchance to dream | 18 | Email Template SF Muni napping on the job A video appears to show a train operator falling… | Aug 30, 2026 1:01 PM · 18 characters. Email Template SF Muni napping on the job A video appears to show a train operator falling… | |
| Aug 28, 2026 9:02 AM | A letter from the future | 24 | Email Template How SF Standard's coverage of transit tax embodies the most lame kind of… | Aug 28, 2026 9:02 AM · 24 characters. Email Template How SF Standard's coverage of transit tax embodies the most lame kind of… | |
| Aug 27, 2026 9:03 AM | SF Sub-Standard | 15 | Email Template How SF Standard's coverage of transit tax embodies the most lame kind of… | Aug 27, 2026 9:03 AM · 15 characters. Email Template How SF Standard's coverage of transit tax embodies the most lame kind of… | |
| Aug 26, 2026 9:03 AM | Oppo builds against SJ’s pro-tax mania | 38 | Email Template Yesterday’s split City Council vote (6-4 opposing the 2/3-voter requirement… | Aug 26, 2026 9:03 AM · 38 characters. Email Template Yesterday’s split City Council vote (6-4 opposing the 2/3-voter requirement… | |
| Aug 25, 2026 11:02 AM | With “investments” like these… | 30 | Email Template No way to run a transit system Bay Area planners say they’ll use money from… | Aug 25, 2026 11:02 AM · 30 characters. Email Template No way to run a transit system Bay Area planners say they’ll use money from… | |
| Aug 24, 2026 9:06 AM | Don't say the S****** word | 26 | Email Template SJ Merc won't acknowledge what pays for "affordable" housing: Subsidies In… | Aug 24, 2026 9:06 AM · 26 characters. Email Template SJ Merc won't acknowledge what pays for "affordable" housing: Subsidies In… | |
| Aug 21, 2026 3:02 PM | How broad should zoning be? | 27 | Email Template Is a cookie-cutter the right tool? This week's contentious SJ City… | Aug 21, 2026 3:02 PM · 27 characters. Email Template Is a cookie-cutter the right tool? This week's contentious SJ City… | |
| Aug 20, 2026 9:10 AM | Tempests hit transit tax | 24 | Email Template Lawsuit and growing opposition starting to derail Bay Area transit bailout… | Aug 20, 2026 9:10 AM · 24 characters. Email Template Lawsuit and growing opposition starting to derail Bay Area transit bailout… | |
| Aug 19, 2026 9:01 AM | Why they don't listen | 21 | Email Template Because elected officials value more highly the needs of big, organized… | Aug 19, 2026 9:01 AM · 21 characters. Email Template Because elected officials value more highly the needs of big, organized… | |
| Aug 18, 2026 9:02 AM | Orwell smiles | 13 | Email Template I'd like some of that investment, please One of our guiltiest pleasures is… | Aug 18, 2026 9:02 AM · 13 characters. Email Template I'd like some of that investment, please One of our guiltiest pleasures is… | |
| Aug 17, 2026 9:03 AM | Why Entertainment Zones flop | 28 | Email Template Experts say: Subsidies, favoritism, and crime sink efforts to save failing… | Aug 17, 2026 9:03 AM · 28 characters. Email Template Experts say: Subsidies, favoritism, and crime sink efforts to save failing… | |
| Aug 14, 2026 9:10 AM | The case against vast SJ upzoning | 33 | Email Template Opinion: Why citywide upzoning likely to misfire, hurt San José residents… | Aug 14, 2026 9:10 AM · 33 characters. Email Template Opinion: Why citywide upzoning likely to misfire, hurt San José residents… | |
| Aug 13, 2026 9:02 AM | The mendacity of tax measure ballot language | 44 | Email Template Misrepresentations abound Prejudicial and misleading ballot language… | Aug 13, 2026 9:02 AM · 44 characters. Email Template Misrepresentations abound Prejudicial and misleading ballot language… | |
| Aug 12, 2026 9:02 AM | Tax fatigue hits Mtn View | 25 | Email Template MV scraps bond measure Polls showing plummeting support for potential… | Aug 12, 2026 9:02 AM · 25 characters. Email Template MV scraps bond measure Polls showing plummeting support for potential… | |
| Aug 11, 2026 9:06 AM | Why local laptop learning lags | 30 | Email Template Because students start working for the tech, not the other way around "Part… | Aug 11, 2026 9:06 AM · 30 characters. Email Template Because students start working for the tech, not the other way around "Part… | |
| Aug 10, 2026 9:03 AM | Nixing onerous housing mandates | 31 | Email Template SF (finally) cuts affordable housing requirement from 15% to 5%… | Aug 10, 2026 9:03 AM · 31 characters. Email Template SF (finally) cuts affordable housing requirement from 15% to 5%… | |
| Aug 9, 2026 9:01 AM | When you're failing, change the subject | 39 | Email Template CA politicians talk a lot about national issues. But you don't hear much… | Aug 9, 2026 9:01 AM · 39 characters. Email Template CA politicians talk a lot about national issues. But you don't hear much… | |
| Aug 7, 2026 9:03 AM | Pollster says transit tax is a toss-up | 38 | Email Template Lee coasting to Oakland mayor re-election --> Transit tax boosters’ own… | Aug 7, 2026 9:03 AM · 38 characters. Email Template Lee coasting to Oakland mayor re-election --> Transit tax boosters’ own… | |
| Aug 6, 2026 9:03 AM | Dubious consensuses | 19 | Email Template Lee coasting to Oakland mayor re-election With four days until the… | Aug 6, 2026 9:03 AM · 19 characters. Email Template Lee coasting to Oakland mayor re-election With four days until the… | |
| Aug 5, 2026 9:02 AM | The bluntest of instruments | 27 | Email Template Atherton (!) OK’s 30-unit townhomes within city limits --> California’s tax… | Aug 5, 2026 9:02 AM · 27 characters. Email Template Atherton (!) OK’s 30-unit townhomes within city limits --> California’s tax… | |
| Aug 4, 2026 9:02 AM | The present now will later be past | 34 | Email Template Atherton (!) OK’s 30-unit townhomes within city limits The town known for… | Aug 4, 2026 9:02 AM · 34 characters. Email Template Atherton (!) OK’s 30-unit townhomes within city limits The town known for… | |
| Aug 3, 2026 9:04 AM | Some CA cities get more affordable | 34 | Email Template SD median rents drop while SJ’s continue to climb The median rent for a San… | Aug 3, 2026 9:04 AM · 34 characters. Email Template SD median rents drop while SJ’s continue to climb The median rent for a San… | |
| Aug 2, 2026 9:01 AM | Down the transit sinkhole | 25 | Email Template How much, really, have Bay Area taxpayers already blown on transit taxes?… | Aug 2, 2026 9:01 AM · 25 characters. Email Template How much, really, have Bay Area taxpayers already blown on transit taxes?… | |
| Jul 31, 2026 9:04 AM | Temporary housing unfairly criticized | 37 | Email Template Evidence proves homeless benefit greatly from interim shelters Study by the… | Jul 31, 2026 9:04 AM · 37 characters. Email Template Evidence proves homeless benefit greatly from interim shelters Study by the… | |
| Jul 30, 2026 9:03 AM | Debunking the transit tax cheerleaders | 38 | Email Template Expert: encouraging entertainment zone drinking is a dangerous idea for… | Jul 30, 2026 9:03 AM · 38 characters. Email Template Expert: encouraging entertainment zone drinking is a dangerous idea for… | |
| Jul 29, 2026 9:02 AM | More booze=more danger | 22 | Email Template Expert: encouraging entertainment zone drinking is a dangerous idea for… | Jul 29, 2026 9:02 AM · 22 characters. Email Template Expert: encouraging entertainment zone drinking is a dangerous idea for… | |
| Jul 28, 2026 4:02 PM | Another large local gathering turns deadly | 42 | Email Template Chaotic Morgan Hill party leaves one dead On the heels of downtown SJ World… | Jul 28, 2026 4:02 PM · 42 characters. Email Template Chaotic Morgan Hill party leaves one dead On the heels of downtown SJ World… | |
| Jul 28, 2026 9:02 AM | Plenty of tax revenue as it is | 30 | Email Template Transit scheme pushes these two Bay Area cities past 11% sales tax rate -->… | Jul 28, 2026 9:02 AM · 30 characters. Email Template Transit scheme pushes these two Bay Area cities past 11% sales tax rate -->… | |
| Jul 25, 2026 9:05 AM | And they still want more | 24 | Email Template Constant: Transit agencies have been dishonestly squeezing Santa Clara… | Jul 25, 2026 9:05 AM · 24 characters. Email Template Constant: Transit agencies have been dishonestly squeezing Santa Clara… | |
| Jul 24, 2026 9:03 AM | Valley voices of fiscal refrainment | 35 | Email Template Pefley: Knowing when to say "no more" "Real leadership starts with the… | Jul 24, 2026 9:03 AM · 35 characters. Email Template Pefley: Knowing when to say "no more" "Real leadership starts with the… | |
| Jul 23, 2026 9:03 AM | Pandora's upzoning box | 22 | Email Template Neighborhood group warns of hidden risks in SJ's high-density upzoning… | Jul 23, 2026 9:03 AM · 22 characters. Email Template Neighborhood group warns of hidden risks in SJ's high-density upzoning… | |
| Jul 22, 2026 9:01 AM | SJ not so livable | 17 | Email Template Report: SF most livable CA city, SJ in bottom half San Francisco has been… | Jul 22, 2026 9:01 AM · 17 characters. Email Template Report: SF most livable CA city, SJ in bottom half San Francisco has been… | |
| Jul 21, 2026 9:03 AM | Reimagining our dead downtown | 29 | Email Template Thinking outside the downtown box In a thoughtful Merc op-ed , former… | Jul 21, 2026 9:03 AM · 29 characters. Email Template Thinking outside the downtown box In a thoughtful Merc op-ed , former… | |
| Jul 20, 2026 9:06 AM | Media bias backfires | 20 | Email Template SF Standard publicly humiliated for trying to tip the scales in favor of… | Jul 20, 2026 9:06 AM · 20 characters. Email Template SF Standard publicly humiliated for trying to tip the scales in favor of… | |
| Jul 19, 2026 1:04 PM | Ignore costs at your peril | 26 | Email Template Smith: Focusing only on rent increases ignores economic realities… | Jul 19, 2026 1:04 PM · 26 characters. Email Template Smith: Focusing only on rent increases ignores economic realities… | |
| Jul 17, 2026 9:06 AM | Welcome to Pravda | 17 | Email Template On its front page yesterday, The Merc complained that Newsom’s latest… | Jul 17, 2026 9:06 AM · 17 characters. Email Template On its front page yesterday, The Merc complained that Newsom’s latest… | |
| Jul 16, 2026 9:03 AM | Retire the Gilroy diesel extension? | 35 | Email Template SJ median rents up 5+% in first half of 2026 --> Rather than hike taxes in… | Jul 16, 2026 9:03 AM · 35 characters. Email Template SJ median rents up 5+% in first half of 2026 --> Rather than hike taxes in… | |
| Jul 15, 2026 9:07 AM | SJ housing getting even more expensive | 38 | Email Template SJ median rents up 5+% in first half of 2026 City officials crow… | Jul 15, 2026 9:07 AM · 38 characters. Email Template SJ median rents up 5+% in first half of 2026 City officials crow… | |
| Jul 14, 2026 9:07 AM | Sales taxes railroad Bay Area’s poorest | 39 | Email Template Transit scheme pushes these two Bay Area cities past 11% sales tax rate -->… | Jul 14, 2026 9:07 AM · 39 characters. Email Template Transit scheme pushes these two Bay Area cities past 11% sales tax rate -->… | |
| Jul 13, 2026 9:07 AM | Nonprofit noncompliance | 23 | Email Template Why aren't local nonprofits treated like lobbyists? SF District 6… | Jul 13, 2026 9:07 AM · 23 characters. Email Template Why aren't local nonprofits treated like lobbyists? SF District 6… | |
| Jul 12, 2026 1:00 PM | Tipping point for Bay Area taxes? | 33 | Email Template Leaders from all Bay Area counties join to oppose unnecessary transit sales… | Jul 12, 2026 1:00 PM · 33 characters. Email Template Leaders from all Bay Area counties join to oppose unnecessary transit sales… | |
| Jul 10, 2026 9:08 AM | 5 failed arguments for the transit tax | 38 | Email Template More World Cup mayhem, shootings in downtown SJ --> The Merc’s been working… | Jul 10, 2026 9:08 AM · 38 characters. Email Template More World Cup mayhem, shootings in downtown SJ --> The Merc’s been working… |
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