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Pentagon: 1,500 troops will deploy to U.S.-Mexico border
The U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego on Dec. 5, 2024. Photo by Mike Blake, Reuters From’ Wendy Fry:  In a significant escalation of immigration enforcement, the Pentagon said today that 1,500 ...
Palo Alto Weekly2h
As the fire risk fades, Los Angeles is busy piecing lives back together after widespread tragedy
At the Pasadena City College disaster resource center, the long, methodical work of putting lives back together is underway. Residents who have lost everything — most in the Eaton fire that burned ...
Palo Alto Weekly2h
‘Devastating’ layoff notices hit California disabled prison contractors after union dispute
In summary Dozens of disabled workers hired through the nonprofit PRIDE Industries are losing their jobs at a California prison after a union outsourcing dispute. Kathy Hart works five days a week ...
Palo Alto Weekly2h
California is investigating OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit company
In summary The state’s attorney general asked the company how it plans to transfer assets out of its charitable nonprofit. As part of what it described as an ongoing investigation, the California ...
Palo Alto Weekly8h
Trump jumps back into California’s water wars with a pro-farmer decree
It would be impossible to overstate the complexity of water supply management in California. Hundreds of federal, state and local agencies decree who or what is supplied with water, when and how much ...
Palo Alto Weekly9h
Palo Alto schools staff launch effort to bring multivariable calculus on campus
Palo Alto and Henry M. Gunn High School staff hope to offer an on-campus, for-credit multivariable calculus class by the 2026 ...
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Council backs plan for housing on downtown lot
Eager to meet their housing goals, Palo Alto's elected leaders backed on Monday a new plan to construct a seven-story ...
Palo Alto Weekly1d
CA sues Trump administration over ‘birthright’ order
Attorney General Rob Bonta discusses the state’s efforts to protect the rights of immigrants at the San Francisco Public Library’s Bernal Heights branch in San Francisco on Dec. 4, 2024. Photo by Jeff ...
Palo Alto Weekly1d
Will new bond funds be enough to rebuild LA schools — and all of California’s other crumbling schools?
In summary Some schools destroyed years ago in the Sonoma and Butte fires are just now reopening. The long, expensive process of rebuilding in LA may eat up much of the money voters approved in ...
Palo Alto Weekly1d
On-the-job training helps California intern see herself as a future transit CEO
For 18-year-old Viviana Mendoza, internships help young people from low-income backgrounds start to see themselves in high-paying careers. That’s how she began visualizing someday running the agency ...
Palo Alto Weekly1d
With the Trump-Newsom political feud back, the LA fires add a tricky new wrinkle
As Donald Trump this week assumed the presidency for the second time, he rekindled his personal and political feud with California and its governor, Gavin Newsom, while also inflating Newsom’s obvious ...
Palo Alto Weekly1d
‘Keep positive:’ Peninsula cities celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Residents gathered to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and peace ahead of the presidential inauguration.