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East Palo Alto nonprofit supplies teachers with a helping hand
Andrea Quezada’s transitional kindergarten classroom at Los Robles Ronald McNair Academy is decorated with colorful posters, a play kitchen, dollhouse, hands-on tools and boxes of toys and nearly all of it was funded by a grant from the East Palo Alto Kids Foundation (EPAK).
Workers at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte weigh joining union
Over 400 healthcare workers at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which operates a clinic in Mountain View, started voting Monday to decide whether to join a local chapter of Service Employees International Union.
California has 6 weeks of gas supply. After that, it gets expensive
Eleven weeks into the Iran war and a global energy shock, California drivers are paying the highest gas prices in the nation, an average of $6.15 a gallon this week.
This Southeast Asian ingredient is leading the next flavor trend in Silicon Valley
A fragrant green leaf is taking over coffee, cocktail and dessert menus along the Peninsula. Pandan – a sweet, grassy and floral ingredient often called the “vanilla of Southeast Asia” – is the latest flavor to go mainstream in Silicon Valley.
Laughing Monk Brewing joins Los Altos’ State Street Market, plans for The Pruneyard
For Sam Ghadiri, Laughing Monk’s pilsner was a staple in his fridge well before he acquired the San Francisco-based brewery. Now, he’s expanding Laughing Monk’s Silicon Valley footprint with a recent Los Altos addition and a Campbell location underway.
Governor YIMBY: In California’s unsettled race, most candidates see eye-to-eye on housing
The crowded race to become California’s next governor may still be unsettled with no clear front runner among a half dozen plausibly viable Democrats and two Republicans, but one clear victor has emerged: The Yes In My Backyard movement.
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