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If you have been in an airplane, you should know what to do in an emergency. Something along the lines of “put your oxygen mask on first before helping anyone else.” Flights are unpredictable. It is a prayer before takeoff and hoping for the best situation.
In California, state leaders often speak about fairness between communities. Yet when it comes to a key funding commitment to local governments, San Mateo County is being treated differently than almost every other county in the state.
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A couple of years into being a parent, I became a dad. Not that I wasn’t a dad from the day my first child was born, but as soon as my oldest was able to open doors, flip switches and turn on faucets, I realized that I had become a “dad”: a guy who constantly went around the house closing ca…
This week, I have been traveling around Italy with my classmates in the Italian program at Burlingame High School. Never having been to Italy, I expected the biggest shock to be surrounding the food, architecture or fashion, but what I didn’t expect was the fulfillment of trying to communica…
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The town hall held at the Jockey Club to allay concerns about a proposed treatment center at 101 N. El Camino Real was an embarrassing spectacle, and beneath the typical community engagement San Mateo residents should expect.
Nine months into the 2025-26 fiscal year, state tax revenue is running several billion dollars ahead of projections in the budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed last June.
Up and down the Peninsula this Saturday (and across the nation) people will be participating in the latest round of “No Kings” events.
Water in San Mateo County has always been about power. In this context, I facilitated a workshop on March 11 as part of Skyline College’s State of Water exhibit where students crafted lyric lines drawn from real-time observations and placed them alongside legal instruments (i.e., the 1879 Ca…
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Gas prices are rising. We all know why. War in the Middle East is once more the culprit, made even worse by California’s high gas taxes and restrictive refining rules, among other anti-petrol factors.
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By tomorrow, some of this may change, who knows. News cycles are moving too fast for everyone, but here we go.
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To maintain strict operational security (OPSEC) during a time of war I won’t tell you what time I usually take our dog, Holly, out for a walk.
What if you learned about a state initiative that takes cars off California’s congested roads, cuts fuel consumption, and lowers carbon dioxide emissions — all backed by years of data and requiring no new technology or infrastructure? What if it saved taxpayers a quarter-billion dollars annually?
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Stanford’s growing presence in Redwood City has been fascinating to watch. Stanford’s first foray into the city began with the purchase in 2005 of four four-story buildings between Broadway and Highway 101, buildings that had been constructed as the headquarters for ISP/web portal Excite@Home.
I recently realized more than half the songs on my current in-rotation playlist were recorded before 2000. As someone born in 2008, this statistic briefly shocked me, but it’s not out of line with general Gen Z trends.
Last week’s news that Peninsula Lively Arts, formerly known as Peninsula Ballet Theatre, will be shutting down in June calls into question our community’s commitment to the arts.
California is not only the nation’s most populous state; it’s also the nation’s most economically, ethnically, culturally and even geographically diverse state.
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Take a look at the website for Connect Bay Area, the organization pushing for regional sales tax increases to pay for transit systems, and this headline pops up: “Stronger Muni for All.”
Last year, I wrote to the Glendale Unified school board urging a bell-to-bell ban on smartphones.
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It just kept coming, showing utterly no sign of halting whatsoever. The Waymo vehicle appeared to be on a collision course with our aging Honda sedan. It was more than a bit unnerving.
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