Special Olympics athletes overcome obstacles through basketball
Meet the Ravens, a Special Olympics basketball team in Northern California.
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Special Olympics basketball team builds family bonds
The Ravens, who practice at Gunn High School in Palo Alto, are one of eight Special Olympic basketball teams in Santa Clara County.
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Palo Alto homeless shelter celebrates a decade of transformation
The Opportunity Center in Palo Alto is celebrating a decade of providing affordable housing, medical services and other amenities to the area’s homeless and near-homeless community.
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Sportswriter Jessica Luther investigates the troubling pattern of sexual assault in sports
Though Austin-based freelance investigative journalist Jessica Luther focuses on sports, she writes not at all about home runs or touchdowns; rather, she investigates sexual assaults committed by athletes.
Behind the scenes of ‘At Bay,’ a web TV show based at Stanford
Students Katie Adams and Jay Moon have released four episodes of “At Bay,” a web series that takes place at Stanford.
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San Francisco approves an installation for a comfort women memorial
A comfort women memorial in San Francisco will recognize women who were coerced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
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Redwood City’s Peninsula Roller Girls roller derby league empowers women, both on and off the rink
Roller derby is surging in a period of rebirth: its reputation as a feminist sport holds new prominence in an age of mixed emotions towards feminism and the struggle to achieve equal opportunity for women.
Trump’s move to cut public art grants criticized as unprecedented by a U.S. president
If Trump’s FY 2018 budget proposal passes, the National Endowment for the Arts would lose all of its federal budget support — nearly $148 million, the equivalent of 45 cents per American.
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TJ Johnston – Street Sheet’s mild-mannered star reporter – takes on San Francisco’s homeless crisis
A San Francisco journalist seeks to dispel misconceptions about homelessness. His other big challenge: being homeless himself.
Indigenous activists march through San Francisco in solidarity with Standing Rock
Bay Area activists marched in solidarity with the Native Nations March happening on the same day in Washington D.C.
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Unlikely faith in Silicon Valley
Vive is not your typical church. Peninsula Press visited this unique place of faith to explore why it has taken off against the odds in Silicon Valley.
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Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo prepares for expansion
The Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo will be renovated, expected to be finished in 2020.
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