PALO ALTO — Palo Alto’s medical cost reduction ballot measure lost in a landslide vote against the initiative during Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Palo Alto voters reject Measure F, which would have regulated healthcare costs Read More »
Peninsula Press coverage for the Nov. 6 midterm election. What does Election 2018 look like in your neighborhood?
Election 2018 in the Peninsula Read More »
PENINSULA — Two years after California legalized recreational marijuana, pot laws on the Peninsula remain a patchwork.
Cracks emerge in Peninsula prohibition on dispensaries Read More »
PENINSULA — Stories about the 2018 midterm elections.
SPECIAL REPORT: Peninsula voters to decide local races, ballot measures in Election 2018 Read More »
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.
California doesn’t need better voting machines — it needs better audits, experts say Read More »
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.
Los Altos divided over ballot measure to regulate how city develops public land Read More »
PALO ALTO – Proposition 7 could result in permanent Daylight Saving Time for California, meaning we will no longer have fall back and spring forward.
If Proposition 7 passes, California could have permanent Daylight Saving Time Read More »
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.
After defeat two years ago, Neysa Fligor tries again for Los Altos City Council Read More »
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.
Palo Alto voters to decide if hotel guests should pay more in taxes Read More »
PALO ALTO – Eager new phone bankers arriving at the Democratic Volunteer Center on San Antonio Road in Palo Alto are greeted with a big smile and a question: “Who would you like to make calls for today?”
California volunteers mobilize in 2018 midterms to support Democrats across the country Read More »
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 — 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 »
