Multimedia Editor

Jesse Rogala

We traveled to five grocery stores to inspect their inventories and unscramble this mystery.

A furious debate over algebra in San Francisco public schools prompted two supervisors to take a weeklong trip to Japan. 

What made it onto the California state ballot, and what didn’t? Plus: California signs a record-breaking $308 billion state budget. 

Building Trades, Carpenters’ unions draw increasingly visible lines over housing supply policy


Planners say they’re less fun and less boozy. But there’s still caviar.