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Mercury News Letters to the Editor for June 20, 2024

Michael Nieto most recently worked on a task force comprised of lawyers from the state attorney general's office and the California National Guard.

A year after reassessing its massive downtown San Jose project, Google is moving ahead and boosting hopes of ending the upheaval in Downtown West.

Giants fans of all ages and backgrounds paid respect to Willie Mays at the Giants legend's statue.

Giants baffled by Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks, who took an 8.20 ERA into the game before silencing San Francisco's bats in Chicago's win.

A 43-acre compound in Big Sur reportedly with the region’s only funicular is for sale for $21.5 million.

The Equal Justice Initiative nonprofit invoked the Juneteenth holiday as it dedicated a monument that honors the people who endured and survived slavery. The National Monument to Freedom is the centerpiece of the new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. The monument is inscribed with the surnames that formerly enslaved people chose for themselves after being emancipated at the Civil War’s end. The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative said Juneteenth is a day to honestly confront the brutality of slavery but also honor the people who managed to remain hopeful despite what they faced.

A Black Cultural Zone hub in East Oakland is pushing ahead with a $1 million grant from Wells Fargo Bank.

It's finally happening. After a wait of more than two years, the opening day for Fizz, the East Bay's first Champagne and bubbles bar in Walnut Creek, is set for July 12.

The amount of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere was at mostly good levels Wednesday, according to the air district.