Stanford psychologists and sociologists dive deeper into the issues underlying a national trend of disproportionate and biased disciplinary actions against black students.
The national trend of criminalization of black school children Read More »
Advertisers who invest in ad spots during the Super Bowl are paying dramatically higher costs year over year, while the number of people they reach by the dollar is steadily decreasing.
Advertisers are spending more money on Super Bowl commercials and reaching fewer people Read More »
The total number of tweets with the hashtag in the month leading up to game day was 1,955. On Super Bowl Sunday, there were 30,715 tweets with the hashtag.
Twitter users bolster #ImWithKap leading up to Super Bowl LIII Read More »
Some commentators are calling it the “most boring game ever.”
The numbers behind Super Bowl LIII Read More »
When President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, backpedaling on a commitment to join 195 other nations in taking on climate change, Santa Clara County launched a campaign to rebuild that commitment — one local government at a time.
Santa Clara County builds coalition to tackle climate change Read More »
Last month, tech writer Kate O’Neill sparked a debate online, with a sarcastic tweet speculating that Facebook’s “Ten Year Challenge” was really a ploy by the social media company to fuel it’s facial recognition machine learning algorithms. Her subsequent
Machine learning explained: How Facebook uses it to learn more about you Read More »
The City of Palo Alto and Youth Community Service honored the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a community celebration filled with activities, performances and music.
Celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Read More »
SAN JOSE – The relocation effort drew spectators. Everyone from former students to retired staff waited from behind caution tape as the house was towed — squeezing between trees and rolling over lawns.
200-ton historic house finds new home across San Jose State campus Read More »
The Wurlitzer family’s company is one of 18 bulldozer vendors contracted by Butte County Cal Fire for extra assistance in combatting an increasing number of wildfires that have strapped the state’s resources. The Camp Fire was the worst that any of them had ever seen.
BAY AREA — Traffic congestion is one of the Bay Area’s most pressing problems. On average, Bay Area drivers spent over 79 hours in traffic jams last year. It doesn’t have to be that way. In the Amsterdam Transit Region in the Netherlands, where around 1.5 million people live, more than 50 percent commute by other means than cars.
Congestion in the Bay Area is at a record high. Amsterdam might have some solutions Read More »
PALO ALTO — Faced with a lack of guidance from their doctors and the possibility that cannabidiol could help their sick children, parents are taking their children’s health into their own hands.
Lacking guidance from doctors, parents lead the charge in treating children with CBD Read More »
LONG BEACH — San Carlos-based civil rights attorney Bruce Nickerson estimates that between 40,000 and 50,000 people in California, mainly gay men, have been arrested in illegitimate police decoy operations since 1979, the year the California Supreme Court redefined lewd conduct to include a question of whether an action was highly offensive to an observer.
How California police departments targeted gay men in sting operations for a century Read More »
