Bay Area Brainstorms Next Steps After Trump Win
Community organizations are building California-wide initiatives to discuss the political moment and how to prepare for the next four years.
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Japanese Americans in San Mateo continue to nurture their community, just as they have for over a century
San Mateo was one of the locations on the San Francisco Peninsula where the first Japanese immigrants, hoping for better work opportunities, settled around the turn of the 20th century.
How Trump’s Mass Deportation Promise is Already Impacting California’s Undocumented Community
An estimated 1.8 million undocumented immigrants in California who could be impacted by President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to conduct the largest deportation operation in American history.
Startups compete for Silicon Valley investor interest at Bay Area tech event
Company founders from across different industries came together in mid-November to present their businesses to potential investors at an exclusive startup pitching event. Held at Stanford University due to each founder’s connection to the institution and overall difficulty in finding investor backing in the industry, nine entrepreneurs explained how their product or service is
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Shedding light on the need for sun safety in schoolsÂ
California schools don’t all teach students about preventing skin cancer. A dermatologist at Stanford hopes augmented reality technology can change that.
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After wildfires, rising insurance costs cause California homeowners to feel the heat
In the last few years, home insurance bills that have doubled or tripled in cost. And an increasing number of California homeowners are unable to find a private insurer at all.
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Silicon Valley embraces self-driving cars while history shows how slowly the public accepts automation
SUNNYVALE — The Tech Business Expo in downtown Sunnyvale brought together local residents and Silicon Valley tech companies on October 3rd, offering insights into public perception of autonomous vehicles and expert perspectives on the technology’s future.
RCSD law enforcement, schools heightened concerns amid nationwide surge in school threats
REDWOOD CITY — The Student Threat Assessment team at the San Mateo County Office of Education oversees Level Two Student Threat Assessments across the county. Two detectives from the Redwood City Police Department are assigned to the team, according to Clements. Since 2017-2018 school year, the Level Two team has handled 151 cases with 22 occurring this year alone, Henricks said. The highest was in 2022 with 41 cases.
More than $18,000 raised at San Francisco fundraiser for Lebanese Red Cross Â
SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco fundraiser led by two recent graduates of the University of California, Berkeley, brought in over $18,000 for the Lebanese Red Cross. Held at a commercial office space in San Francisco’s Mission Bay, attendees contributed a suggested $20 minimum donation for a home-style Lebanese dinner. Around 50 attendees, most
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Barriers to US suburban Mpox vaccination persist amidst global emergencyÂ
SAN MATEO — As cases of Mpox rise abroad, residents in San Mateo County still face barriers to getting vaccinated. This low uptake comes as a more severe strain of Mpox, Clade IB, surges in the Congo with first confirmed spreading to Germany and the UK last week. There are no reports of any Clade
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AI powers a new era of weather forecasting
Built by government weather agencies alongside tech giants like Google, IBM, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Huawei, and a growing number of startups, new AI systems use machine learning to scan massive streams of real-time weather data and generate faster, more energy-efficient forecasts than traditional methods.
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Scenes from Election 2024
Peninsula Press reporters fanned out across the Bay Area from Santa Clara to San Francisco counties to cover the Presidential Election on Nov. 5, 2024.
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