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Community briefs: sign up for pottery classes at M-A, attend a flea market on Sunday
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Menlo-Atherton High School, at 555 Middlefield Road in Atherton, is hosting a series of pottery workshops this summer. One=day workshops will be held on July 27 and Aug. 3 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. The class on July 27 will focus on mug making but is...
Santa Clara County jail inmate dies by suicide in his cell
A man detained for suspected felonies died by suicide earlier this month at the Santa Clara County Main Jail Complex in San Jose, according to the Sheriff's Office. In a statement Wednesday, the Sheriff's Office said that at 6:41 p.m. on July 5, deputies assigned to the Main Jail Complex found 24-year-old inmate Jose Herrera unresponsive in his assigned cell. Herrera was alone in his cell at the time. Life-saving measures were immediately provided to him through CPR. Around 6:55 p.m., medical personnel arrived and transported Herrera to a hospital, deputies said. Around 2:30 p.m. on July 10, Herrera was pronounced dead at the hospital. "The Sheriff's Office followed standard protocol for an in-custody death by conducting a joint investigation among the Sheriff's Office, District Attorney's Office, and the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office," the law enforcement agency said. According to the coroner, Herrera died due to hanging, with the manner of death being suicide. The Sheriff's Office said he was arrested and booked into the Main Jail on July 5 on suspicion of robbery, possession of a loaded firearm, various other felonies, and several outstanding warrants.
Menlo Ventures and Anthropic Launch $100M Anthology Fund to Accelerate AI Innovation
MENLO PARK, Calif., July 17, 2024 -- Menlo Ventures, a leading venture capital firm, today announced the Anthology Fund, a groundbreaking $100 million initiative created in partnership with Anthropic, the frontier artificial intelligence safety and research company. The Anthology Fund aims to partner with innovative founders to build unique AI-first...
Progressive millennial politician Michael Tubbs runs for statewide California office
A progressive star politician and one of the country’s youngest mayors who received national recognition for guaranteed income programs for the poor but then was booted out of office by voters in his Central Valley hometown announced he was running for statewide office in California. Former Stockton Mayor Michael...
The End Of Fast Food Jobs In California
Gavin Newsom has really blown it this time. The California governor, along with his henchmen in the legislature, arrogantly raised the minimum wage of fast food workers. The liberals proudly proclaimed that the new minimum wage, at least twenty dollars an hour, would allow workers to live like the people they serve. They called it a livable wage.
Palo Alto high schoolers create initiative to educate, promote health equity
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Jaslynn Lee, sophomore at Palo Alto High School, has always been interested in health care– especially after seeing firsthand how a lack of proper care can affect people experiencing homelessness in the Bay Area. So she and Yuyou Zhang, junior at Gunn High...
Heat Dome Returns Over the Bay Area, Expected to Intensify Next Week
Remember that record-breaking heat wave that brought triple-digit temperatures over the Fourth of July? It’s back — kind of — according to the National Weather Service, causing warmer than usual weather across the inland Bay Area over the next few days. “It’s not going to be as...
Empty offices haunt downtown San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco
SAN JOSE — Empty offices haunt the downtown districts of the Bay Area’s three largest cities, a new report shows, an indicator that companies and workers still shun the cores of this region’s urban centers. During the April-through-June second quarter of 2024, office buildings were about one-third...
Apple Invests $50 Million to Address Bay Area Housing Crisis Through Innovative Fund
In a move to combat the escalating housing crisis in the Bay Area, Apple has unveiled a partnership with several philanthropic entities to create the Bay Area Housing Innovation Fund, a project notably backed with a substantial $50 million investment. Apple announced that this collaboration with the San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund, Sobrato Philanthropies, and Destination: Home aims to forge ahead in affordable housing development through offering favorable loans which should streamline the creation of over 400 new housing units in the next couple of years, and Mercy Housing is set to break ground next week on the fund's first project, delivering 145 units of supportive housing in San Francisco's Mission District.
Campaign launched to help Californians take control of their health care
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new California statewide initiative to encourage you to be more proactive about your health care kicks off Thursday. It's called the "How do I…" campaign. The goal of the campaign, spearheaded by the California Black Health Network is to empower a "community of individuals...
Industry Veteran Launches $1.2 Billion RIA In California
Veteran wealth advisor Kara S. Boccella has founded Serenus Wealth Advisors, a Santa Monica, California-based independent RIA whose team oversees $1.2 billion in client assets. Boccella served as a Partner at Certuity since 2014 and has more than 15 years of experience serving high net worth clients. Devon M. Galindo...
California school sues over ban on K-12 schools notifying parents of gender changes
(The Center Square) - California parents and a school district filed a joint federal lawsuit against the state over its new ban on public schools notifying parents of students’ gender change requests. Soon before the lawsuit was filed, entrepreneur Elon Musk announced he is moving the headquarters of X, formerly known as Twitter, and SpaceX from California to Texas in response to the law. The lawsuit, filed by Liberty Justice...
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