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[14 May 2013 | Comments Off | ]
Assessing homelessness and following fish on Peninsula Report [PODCAST] Angela Hayes shares the journeys fish take in Palo Alto: Salmon and trout are leaping amongst the millionaire’s houses. And Rob Franklin brings us the story of a local census that gauges where people go when they live on the streets.

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[30 Apr 2013 | Comments Off | ]
Santa Clara County counts homeless, examines costs of cleaning up encampments In May, Santa Clara County will release the results of its Count the Homeless report, which helps the county allocate funds for sheltering homeless people and cleaning up their encampments.

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[23 Apr 2013 | Comments Off | ]
With barrier removal, endangered fish to migrate through San Francisquito Creek [VIDEO] The San Mateo Resource Conservation District is spearheading a project that will remove a concrete barrier from the San Francisquito Creek, making it easier for fish to swim through.

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[20 Mar 2013 | Comments Off | ]
Despite critics, Palo Alto mayor presses on with high-speed internet expansion In his State of the City Speech at Tesla Motors, Greg Scharff, Palo Alto’s new mayor, suggested that Palo Alto needs to invest in fiber in order to become the “Leading Digital City of the Future.”

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[13 Mar 2013 | Comments Off | ]
Building a Palo Alto center that converts waste to energy pits environmentalists against each other Palo Alto’s environmentalists are locked in debate with one another over plans to construct a compost-to-energy facility. Residents are divided over whether the city should use the land to convert organic waste into clean energy.