By noon on Nov. 1, the line at St. Anthony’s Padua Dining Room spilled out the door as patrons waited for a hot meal from the church’s food distribution center in Menlo Park, Calif. The Dining Room is one of hundreds of organizations in the Bay Area bracing for increased need as funding for the […]
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SAN FRANCISCO — A few hours before office workers would flood the streets of San Francisco during the post-work rush, a smattering of kaffiyeh and goggle-clad protesters dotted a quiet block of Sansome Street on Oct.7. Some clustered around its corners, sitting on the sidewalk as they unwrapped packaged burritos. Others milled around the central-most
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PALO ALTO, Calif. – With the theme of “Messages for the Future,” the 28th annual United Nations Association Film Festival once again bridged global issues to the local community. The festival, which concluded Oct. 26, featured 60 documentary films from more than 50 countries. Screenings were held primarily at the Mitchell Park Community Center in
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PALO ALTO, Calif. — The Super Bowl is returning to Levi’s Stadium and Bay Area NFL fans are preparing for the hoopla. The Peninsula Press spent an NFL Sunday talking to people about the game at The Patio, a sports bar and grill in Palo Alto, Calif. that used its 21 flatscreen televisions to play
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – On Oct. 5, 2025, more than 1,000 people joined the Valley101 Annual Tech Summit. Everything at the summit this year circles back to artificial intelligence. Besides panels exploring AI’s role in different fields, the organizer introduced a startup challenge for the first time. “Many of our followers are entrepreneurs. Over the years,
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REDWOOD CITY — About 580 people, many wearing turquoise shirts that read, “Censorship is so 1984!” gathered on Oct. 8 in downtown Redwood City for the 4th Annual Upscale Pub Crawl event organized by the Redwood City Library Foundation. The crawl took place during Banned Books Week, a nationwide event that has celebrated the freedom to
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In a wide-ranging interview with Stanford Journalism MA students on Oct. 23 at her district office in San Jose amid the government shutdown, Democratic U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) said Congress is doing “almost nothing” right now.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW — Despite property owners’ concerns, the Mountain View Environmental Planning Commission supported a staff recommendation to add 63 new properties to the city’s Register of Historic Resources during a review meeting on Oct. 1. The meeting was one of several check-ins between city staff and the commission during the course of the Historic
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STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford football stopped Florida State at the goal line to secure a 20-13 win on Oct. 18, handing the Seminoles their fourth straight loss. Florida State was the heavy betting favorite ahead of the game at -17.5, and head coach Mike Norvell is on the hot seat following the team’s ninth consecutive
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EAST PALO ALTO, Calif.–The city of East Palo Alto is in the final stages of forming its own youth governing body–a group of students between ages 12 to 18 who would provide guidance to the city about local issues. Members of the East Palo Alto City Council have been pushing for a youth governing body
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PALO ALTO AND MOUNTAIN VIEW— Thousands rallied along major intersections of El Camino Real on Oct. 18, protesting the Trump administration in a second wave of nationwide “No Kings” demonstrations. Nearly seven million people across the country took to the streets in over 2,700 protests, making the event the largest single-day protest in U.S. history,
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OAKLAND, Calif. – According to event organizers, over 10,000 demonstrators poured into downtown Oakland on Saturday for one of the largest “No Kings” rallies in the Bay Area to protest against the Trump Administration. Organizers in Oakland framed Saturday’s march as a patriotic stand for democracy. “This is a ‘Love America’ rally. People are here
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