SANTA CLARA COUNTY – As of a week before Election Day, the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters still needed to train up to 500 Election Officers to work at the precincts.
PALO ALTO — Residents of Palo Alto’s Ventura neighborhood say a new affordable housing project under consideration by the city will cause parking problems and traffic congestion and are negotiating with the developer to scale it back.
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PALO ALTO — Representative Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) blasted President Donald Trump for using rhetoric that gives neo-Nazis and white supremacists the idea they have “permission” to operate with “impunity.”
Eshoo says Trump rhetoric contributing to violence, blasts Republicans for inaction Read More »
SAN JOSE – On Sept. 25, The San Jose City Council granted San Jose Stage Company $1 million to purchase stage equipment and furniture following a construction project, which is still being planned.
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PALO ALTO — Palo Alto is collecting taxes on Airbnb rentals in the city even as a zoning ordinance technically prohibits their operation in single-family residential districts.
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PALO ALTO – Palo Alto City Council candidates are pushing for federal and state help to fund the construction of grade separations, which have become urgent in recent years due to increased congestion at the railroad crossings.
Palo Alto City Council candidates tackle grade separations during public forum Read More »
Residents of two Mountain View apartment complexes that developers are looking to replace with luxury housing say they won’t be able to stay in the city if they’re forced out of their homes. Tenants of 2005 and 2310 Rock St. say the relocation assistance that the developer offered them — an equivalent of three months
Mountain View residents push back against proposed housing developments on Rock Street Read More »
CUPERTINO — A Bay Area property company has begun demolishing a parking structure at the Vallco shopping mall, the first step towards construction of a new 58-acre mixed-use development that has divided the community.
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ALCATRAZ— While some Americans were celebrating Columbus Day, hundreds gathered at sunrise on Oct. 8 on Alcatraz Island for a ceremony celebrating Indigenous People’s Day.
SAN FRANCISCO — At 9 a.m. on a recent Saturday, dozens of young, African-American women, ages 13 to 17, stood in a line outside a tall, glass-plaited building to learn the complexities of bitcoin — a digital currency with a market that’s worth more than $100 billion. The event was part of Black Girls Code, a nonprofit groups that teaches technology and coding skills to African American girls.
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PACIFICA — Plastic trifles from bygone days can be found along the coast at Mussel Rock near a defunct landfill, testifying to the persistent problem of plastics in the world’s waterways and oceans.
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PALO ALTO — The Palo Alto University campus was quiet Thursday as students looked forward to the end of their first week of school. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, except one of their professors was conspicuously absent, giving testimony on Capitol Hill.
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