Neil Chase

Neil Chase is the Chief Executive Officer of CalMatters. He was formerly Executive Editor at The Mercury News and the East Bay Times and has worked as a journalist at the San Francisco Examiner, Arizona Republic, CBS MarketWatch and The New York Times.

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Fighting for air, saving the Amazon, Trump judges, an ethnic studies do-over, and ‘public charge’

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A photo of a row of red lockers. Photo by pablohart, Istockphotos.com

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