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Menlo Park District 4 hopeful outraises opponent by over $10K
Singer and communications professional Charlotte Reed is far outraising her opponent in the District 4 race — and all other Menlo Park City Council district candidates on the Nov. 3 ballot — in her bid to succeed Mayor Betsy Nash.
Menlo Park District 1 council candidates aren’t asking residents for donations
Candidates for the District 1 seat on the Menlo Park City Council are largely self-funding their campaigns, in contrast with candidates in other districts who are raising tens of thousands of dollars.
Karl Deisseroth, Stanford’s ‘renaissance man,’ celebrates Nobel Prize
Karl Deisseroth was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for discoveries in optogenetics, a “way of understanding what cells are actually doing in the body.”
St. Francis Center marks 40 years, celebrates funding for inclusive park
St. Francis Center celebrated its 40th anniversary Sept. 26 with a community block party and a ceremony honoring donors who fully funded a planned inclusive park in North Fair Oaks.
‘Evaluators’ are supposed to keep AI from killing us all. No pressure
In a world increasingly concerned about serious risks from artificial intelligence, policymakers trying to mitigate those risks find themselves turning more and more to a new class of professionals: AI evaluators, who audit systems on behalf of the companies that create them.
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Guest opinion: For Menlo Park's Measure P or not for P, that is the questionOctober 4, 2026 11:02 am
