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Incumbent Kim faces challenger Lin in first FUHSD Area 3 race
CUPERTINO — For the first time, voters in the Fremont Union High School District’s Area 3 will elect a trustee on their own, choosing between incumbent board Vice President Rosa Kim and challenger Jason Lin in a race shaped by years of declining enrollment and the rise of…
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Palo Alto throws support behind $11.25-billion housing bond
PALO ALTO — Californians will vote on whether to approve $ 11.25 billion in funding for affordable housing in the November ballot, the second bond measure in eight years as the state continues to fall behind in necessary housing construction. On Sept. 29, the Palo Alto Human…
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Bay Area Israelis fly to Tel Aviv to vote in ‘existential’ election
SAN FRANCISCO — At San Francisco International Airport on Oct. 25, passengers lined up at El Al’s check-in counters, pulling suitcases and preparing for the nearly 14-hour flight to Tel Aviv. Among them were many Israelis planning to fly and participate in Tuesday’s national…
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In Half Moon Bay, a consequential vote on farmworker housing
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to move forward with a 40-unit affordable housing proposal for senior agricultural workers, a plan that has divided candidates in three races for the Half Moon Bay City Council. Measure Q asks whether the city should…
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New exhibit celebrates 50th anniversary of Repack Mountain Biking Race
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Peninsula Press (@peninsulapress) The Marin Museum of Bicycling is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Repack Mountain Biking Race, one of the first modern mountain biking races recorded, with a brand new “Klunker” exhibition…
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Kids get hands-on with science at Cal State East Bay event
Science in the Park, a free biennial STEM event that began in 2011, came to Cal State East Bay for the third time this year with 107 booths, its biggest yet. Kids came to build, code and explore, and some already have strong opinions about the role AI should play in their…
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San Mateo County, hit hard with flu, looks to boost vaccinations
San Mateo County recorded its first flu-related death of the season, Public Information Officer Preston Merchant said. The death occurred in late August, but the exact date and details about the deceased were not disclosed. Flu-related hospitalizations are up more than threefold…
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Palo Alto activists join global campaign against Palantir
Palo Alto activists join global campaign against Palantir.
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Housing dominates Cupertino City Council candidate forum
Eight candidates for Cupertino’s city council offered competing plans for the challenges they would face if elected, including building more housing, balancing the budget and preparing for wildfires, at an Oct. 7 forum.
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These three women breathe life into puppets in Northern California
The 19-year-old woman from Nova Scotia had just finished her first year of university. A piano student, she was already sick of sitting in practice rooms for eight hours a day. But after a dishwashing job at a summer camp gave her access to silk screening and photography…
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The hidden game: How former Stanford captain Sam Schwartzstein brings data storytelling to “Thursday Night Football”
Every summer before the NFL season begins, former Stanford football captain Sam Schwartzstein reads “The Hidden Game of Football” — a seminal book from 1988 that pioneered football analytics — to remind himself how far sports data has come. “Stats are things you can see,” he…
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Cocoa, Cultured: Inside the California Startup Growing Cacao from Cells
On the boundary of a West Sacramento industrial strip and some of the most fertile farmland in America, twenty glass flasks sit in rows inside a steel incubator, each plugged with an orange stopper and swirling with a cloudy liquid labeled with blue tape. There are no trees, no…