Palo Alto, LifeMoves Set to Begin Construction on Interim Housing for Homeless

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Fueled by $26.6 million in state funding, the City of Palo Alto and partner organization LifeMoves are charging ahead with their plans for project HomeKey Palo Alto – a large, first-of-its-kind transitional housing site for the city. In a press release, the city said the new HomeKey development will provide “a dignified transitional step for […]

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A mural on the main office building of Los Robles-Ronald McNair academy, a K-5 Spanish/English dual immersion school in East Palo Alto.

‘Cannot quantify the trauma’: pandemic effects add up in San Mateo County schools

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As Principal Alex Quezada began his daily morning walk around Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy in East Palo Alto, a young student stopped Quezada at the playground to ask if there could be a “break time” later in the day. The student offered a relieved smile when the principal readily agreed, and then he skipped off

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Carbon Capture and Removal Companies Could be Boosted by New Federal and State Funds

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Earlier this year, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law 40 climate-related bills that allocate $54 billion to help the state achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. Now, all eyes are turned to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the clean air agency assigned with developing California’s climate strategy. The board is set to vote Dec.

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Woodside High School

“It’s beyond unsettling, it’s terrifying”: At local high schools, the fear of gun violence looms

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WOODSIDE – On the morning of Oct. 12, the SAT and PSAT exams began as usual at Woodside High School. Students sat hunched over their test booklets, filling in answer bubbles in hushed classrooms. All was quiet across the high school’s sprawling 30-acre campus. Then the police cars arrived. The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office

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The transition from prison back to society is hardly smooth. Without resources or job prospects, the formerly incarcerated struggle to reintegrate. However, places like Farming Hope are helping them. The San Francisco based nonprofit focuses on hiring formerly incarcerated and homeless by providing skills to help support this transition. These are the stories of formerly incarcerated individuals merging with society and trying to find their place.

Farming Hope : A Pathway to Reintegration

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The transition from prison back to society is hardly smooth. Without resources or job prospects, the formerly incarcerated struggle to reintegrate. However, places like Farming Hope are helping them.The San Francisco based nonprofit focuses on hiring formerly incarcerated and homeless by providing skills to help support this transition. These are the stories of formerly incarcerated

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Solar Rights Groups Say That the CPUC’s Revised Credit Reduction Proposal Will Kill California’s Rooftop Solar Industry. Not Everyone Agrees.

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SAN FRANCISCO — The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) released a revised proposal to the net energy metering solar tariff. If approved, Californians who install rooftop solar after April 15, 2023 would receive 75% less in credit payments from utility companies than residents who have solar now. If the CPUC votes yes to this proposal

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Raphael Warnock addressed reporters at a rally on Saturday Nov. 26. (Phoebe Quinton/Peninsula Press)

In close election, voting rights activists work to inform formerly incarcerated people of eligibility

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ATLANTA, GA — Ahead of the Georgia Senate election runoff, criminal justice organizations in Georgia have focused on making sure everyone eligible to vote does, including those formerly incarcerated who often mistakenly believe they can’t. “A lot of people have the notion that once you’ve got a felony record, you can no longer vote and

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hallway at Menlo-Atherton

Law meant to help students leaves many grumbling about school start times

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  California legislators thought they had a sure-fire winner in Senate Bill 328. What teenager wouldn’t want to get a little more sleep?  But four months after the state implemented a law built on the belief that later school start times would help sleep-deprived students, there’s a lot of grumbling at two San Mateo County

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Firefighters work on the controlled burn in Soquel Demonstration State Forest.

Cal Fire, seeking to prevent wildfires, conducts historic controlled burn near Santa Cruz

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LOS GATOS— Cal Fire conducted a historic controlled burn Nov. 4 over four acres of Soquel Demonstration State Forest, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The burn came after weeks of work by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) to prepare some 17 acres of the

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