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California’s heat wave crisis: Report reveals costs, health impacts
A recent report from the California Department of Insurance has highlighted the staggering economic and health impacts of extreme heat in California, totaling over $7.7 billion in the last decade. Released amidst a heat wave, with temperatures soaring past 120 in Palm Springs, the report underscores a growing crisis. “Extreme...
‘Forced outing’ parental notice policies banned in California
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law on Monday banning schools from passing policies requiring parents be notified if their child decides to change their gender identity. The law prevents school staff from “outing” a student to their parent or anyone else without their permission. Proponents held up the measure as a…
US Rep. Schiff warns of big Democratic losses with Biden atop ticket-NYT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Representative Adam Schiff, a California Democrat who is running for the Senate, warned donors in a private meeting that his party was likely to suffer major losses if President Joe Biden continued his reelection campaign, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two unnamed sources.
Newsom sends Trump security reinforcements at RNC: ‘Public safety transcends party lines’
As the Republican National Convention welcomed former President Donald Trump on Monday, dozens of security officers from deep-blue California were among those guarding the MAGA leader. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was responsible for reinforcing the GOP’s security forces with 61 officers from his state. “Public safety transcends party lines,” the Democratic governor said Monday. His […]
L.A. homicide rate higher than rest of state, lower than other major cities: report
More than 300 people were murdered within the city of Los Angeles in 2023, creating a homicide rate that is higher than the state as a whole and most other major cities in California. But a new report released by the California Attorney General’s Office, alongside Los Angeles Police Department data, shows that L.A. isn’t […]
La Colectiva serves up Latin American fare at Ava’s Market in Mountain View
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three years ago, Cindy Valderrama and her husband Roberto launched a Venezuelan catering company based out of Mountain View. Since then, the couple has traveled up and down the Peninsula selling traditional Venezuelan foods at farmers markets, but they’ve never had the opportunity to serve customers in Mountain View until now.
The Spongebob Musical in Los Altos
There are many reasons to see The SpongeBob Musical that have nothing to do with the fact that Tony Award-winning Ethan Slater played the (Tony award-winning) role of SpongeBob on Broadway before he hooked up with Grammy winner Ariana Grande, whereupon they both wrecked their marriages, leaving Slater’s now ex-wife with a newborn baby (whew!). No homes will be wrecked in this production staged by the Los Altos Youth Theater, as it promises a night of appropriate for all ages hilarious fun that audiences have come to expect from a singing sponge living in a pineapple under the sea. Runs through July 28.
Officials investigate Coggins Fire in La Honda
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On July 12, firefighters responded to a fire in La Honda which engulfed a manufactured home, multiple outbuildings and three trailers, according to a Cal Fire social media post. Fire officials call the incident the Coggins Fire and stated that flames did not spread toward nearby wildland and no one was injured.
CAPE Analytics and EagleView Embark on Long-Term Imagery Collaboration
(Image source: Eagleview website.) CAPE Analytics (Palo Alto, Calif.), a provider of AI-powered property insights for insurance and real estate risk, has announced a collaboration with EagleView, a provider geospatial technology, to bolster access to current and historical, high-quality, high-resolution, aerial imagery. The long-term joint initiative between CAPE Analytics and EagleView expands the coverage, recency, history, and resiliency of CAPE’s market-leading property analytics across the United States for use in insurance underwriting and rating, as well as real estate lending, according to a statement from CAPE.
Helm.ai launches VidGen-1 generative video model for autonomous vehicles, robots
Training machine learning models for self-driving vehicles and mobile robots is often labor-intensive because humans must annotate a vast number of images and supervise and validate the resulting behaviors. Helm.ai said its approach to artificial intelligence is different. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company last month launched VidGen-1, a generative AI model that it said produces realistic video sequences of driving scenes.
Exclusive: Santa Clara Co. Office of Education under investigation over misuse of Head Start funds
At 8:50 a.m. on Monday, a half dozen Office of Head Start (OHS) officials arrived at the Santa Clara County Office of Education on Ridder Park Drive in San Jose, Calif. to continue their review of the county office. OHS is an office of the Administration for Children and Families....
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