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Last week I wrote about two in-the-works high-rise affordable housing developments, one in Redwood City and one in San Carlos. A reader asked why I haven’t written lately about Redwood City’s Broadway Plaza project and wondered about the affordability of that project’s 520 for-rent apartment…
I’ve spent at least half of every spring semester in high school grounded. Freshman year, it was just the first two, three months until I finally secured an A in English and regained my social privileges. I brushed it off as a fluke.
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I have a fairly good gauge of when the community is under stress based on the outreach I receive. People are angry, upset, they seek justice. They seek blame. Language is heightened, aggressive, urgent.
Over the last half-century, California has had seven governors — counting Jerry Brown twice — who varied widely in temperament, ideology and efficacy.
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Politicians tend to be procrastinators, putting off major policy issues until they can no longer be ignored without political fallout.
When my siblings and I sat down to dinner as kids, Mom would say, “Take what you want, but eat what you take.”
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There have been a lot of bogus promises, failed projections and hopelessly sanguine predictions involving California’s high-speed rail program.
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Silicon Valley loves to romanticize what it takes to survive and thrive here — that hustle life, garage ideas turned into empires, quirky and overly demanding perfectionists in turtlenecks, risk-takers who changed the world. But “Builders of the Silicon Dream” is a new documentary directed b…
The state Legislature delivered a historic win for San Mateo County by passing Senate Bill 63 this past weekend.
I don’t love to admit this, but in fifth grade, my parent-teacher conference was met with concern about my lack of communication in the classroom.
How do Americans find a way to unite around the belief that violence is not an acceptable form of disagreement?
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Writing last week’s column, I imagined what it might be like to live in the 21-story senior housing project proposed for 910 Marshall St. in downtown Redwood City.
Out of all species, humans undergo the longest period of development. While many species become self-sufficient within weeks or even days of birth, the human brain isn’t fully developed until the age of 25.
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On Tuesday, Sept. 9, we marked the 15th anniversary of the San Bruno pipeline explosion and fire, quite possibly the most vivid and impactful story in the Daily Journal’s history. On that night, eight people were killed, 66 injured and 38 homes were destroyed with 70 others damaged in the Cr…
California is one of the nation’s bluest states, and its bluest region is the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.
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By now, no doubt, you have seen the ads in support of Proposition 50, the redistricting measure, which are all Gavin all the time. It is just a taste of what is to come, of course.
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These are desperate times for Christina Corpus. The clock is ticking on her tenure as the sheriff of San Mateo County. Slowly (very slowly) but surely, the county’s Board of Supervisors is on track to vote to remove her from office for a variety of alleged offenses enumerated in reports and …
Conflict between California’s state officials and its nearly 500 cities and counties — especially over money — is nothing new.
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Between January 2025 and last week, ChatGPT’s usage grew from 3.8 billion to 6 billion monthly active users representing one billion queries every single day across 188 million daily visitors. The site now ranks fifth globally, behind Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Which raises a q…
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