We've been planning them for more than a year. Our goal is to create a more useful newspaper, one tailored for the busy lifestyles of our diverse Silicon Valley readers. The improvements We're introducing a Northern California edition, available in Santa Cruz, Monterey, Merced, Contra Costa, San Joaquin and Sacramento counties. Personal Technology moves from Sunday to Thursday. Saturday's Real Estate section is redesigned to help owners and renters cope with Silicon Valley's extraordinary housing market, including a map and chart that examine price changes ZIP code by ZIP code.
Celebrations remains in that section.
A daily column will run at the bottom of Page 3, featuring job moves of local people. The stock pages will be easier to read, and we've added an extra field to the mutual fund tables that will rotate each day. All these changes will appear in a Mercury News that is easier to read and handle. Over the course of this week, we will narrow the size of the paper, moving to what has become the new industry standard. Until next Monday, the space around the printed area of our pages may vary from section to section or day to day.