Bay Area counties and non-profit organizations are preparing for the 2020 Census by canvassing neighborhoods to make address lists more complete and recruiting “trusted messengers” like priests and community organizers to encourage hard-to-count populations to respond to the census.
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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that he is considering running for President in the 2020 race as an independent, centrist candidate.
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PALO ALTO — Voters across the Peninsula took to the polls to cast their votes on a number of local races and propositions Tuesday.
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PALO ALTO — Palo Alto’s medical cost reduction ballot measure lost in a landslide vote against the initiative during Tuesday’s midterm elections.
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Peninsula Press coverage for the Nov. 6 midterm election. What does Election 2018 look like in your neighborhood?
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PALO ALTO — The Enough is Enough political action committee is focused on six candidates in five states, who have either been accused of sexual misconduct, have voted against measures to aid victims, or have otherwise failed to stand with survivors on the subject of sexual assault.
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ALAMEDA & SANTA CLARA COUNTIES — About one percent of voters in Alameda and Santa Clara counties will cast their ballots on electronic voting machines that have known security vulnerabilities.
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SANTA CLARA — Santa Clara County’s five-term sheriff, Laurie Smith, is facing her toughest re-election battle in two decades amid heightened scrutiny of her record and recent high-profile deaths at the county jails.
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LOS ALTOS – A ballot measure to decide if Los Altos’ residents will have final say over the leasing, selling and development of public land in the town has divided this small peninsula city heading into the Nov. 6 election.
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PALO ALTO – Proposition 7 could result in permanent Daylight Saving Time for California, meaning we will no longer have fall back and spring forward.
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LOS ALTOS — Neysa Fligor, an in-house attorney at Hewlett-Packard and mother, is running for Los Altos City Council this year. But it isn’t her first time. She lost back in 2016 by only six votes.
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PALO ALTO— On Nov. 6, Palo Alto voters will decide whether to increase the Transient Occupancy Tax — also known as the hotel tax — from 14 to 15.5 percent, in a ballot initiative known as Measure E.
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