Emily Hoeven

OPINION: “One of the juiciest lawsuits of the year involving California has nothing to do with the president — it was filed against the state and mostly flown under the radar,” Emily Hoeven...

OPINION: If California can’t agree to build housing in the dilapidated parking lots of wealthy Sausalito, where can it build?

OPINION: Katie Porter just made the California governor’s race a whole lot spicier — and got a lot more people to pay attention. Just not in the way she was hoping, Emily Hoeven writes.

Is it any surprise that young people like me are forgoing moody bars for free books when a glass of wine can set you back $20?

OPINION: San Francisco is “upholding an unfair status quo. Working-class neighborhoods deserve the same protections the city gives wealthier communities,” Emily Hoeven writes.

OPINION: California can’t afford to treat its governorship as a mere launching pad for higher office. And that’s why it would have been a mistake for Kamala Harris to run, Emily Hoeven writes.

OPINION: Allegations of physical violence. Police reports. Stay-away orders. A Bay Area home remodel shows how housing laws have perverted our community spirit. 

Dozens of state prison workers who have disabilities or are service-disabled veterans just lost their jobs. Why? California’s zero-sum politics.  

OPINION: “S.F. doesn’t have much of a future if young people abandon the city. It would do well to help forge strong communities in our most important of places: the home,” Emily Hoeven...

A Bay Area city wants to build 345 units of affordable housing near public transit and businesses on three city-owned parking lots. But this is California, where no good housing deed goes...