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San Mateo County, one week out: about 69,500 ballots returned so far, vote centers open, and today’s mail-ballot deadline
As of Friday, San Mateo County had received roughly 69,500 ballots from its 449,447 registered voters. Tuesday is the last day to…
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Bay Area lawmakers make SFO’s airport holding area a recurring oversight stop as CBP defends its procedures
Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Kevin Mullin, Jared Huffman and Aisha Wahab made an unannounced visit to the CBP holding area in SFO’s International…
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John Ternus faces his first earnings call as Apple’s CEO tonight, with memory costs and the iPhone Duo in focus
Apple reports fiscal fourth-quarter results after Monday’s close. Analysts expect revenue of about $113.4 billion, up roughly 11%. Investors will be listening…
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Tesla and SpaceX Form Committees to Weigh a Merger. The Stakes Reach Tesla’s Palo Alto Engineering Base
Elon Musk says independent directors at Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to explore combining the companies, a deal that would…
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Ro Khanna says a Democratic Congress would end Iran war funding ‘on day one.’ What the power of the purse can do, and where a veto comes in
On the eve of the midterms, the Fremont Democrat promised to use Congress’s spending power to end the U.S. war with Iran, citing Vietnam. The White House says the campaign is meeting clear objectives. The 1973 record shows both the reach and the limits of a funding cutoff.
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Alphabet’s numbers, read closely: Cloud revenue doubled, free cash flow went negative, and investors erased about $500 billion in a day
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Anthropic files to go public on Nasdaq as ‘ANT,’ showing $16.3 billion in first-half revenue and a founder-controlled share structure
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Palo Alto’s Broadcom backstops $63 billion in Wall Street financing for Anthropic’s chips. Here is how the deal is built.
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Redwood City’s Measure E, read line by line: a rent rollback, a 5% cap and a fight over who pays
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Ninth Circuit hears Justice Department’s ballot request today as Santa Clara County reviews letter on 902 voters
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Analysis: Who is bankrolling Prop 45, and what its funders stand to gain
The Yes side’s top contributors total $39.6 million against $36.3 million for the No side, per the FPPC’s Oct. 29 tally. A sourced look at the tech, utility and builder money, and what each says it wants.
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Burlingame Opens Its New City Hall at 1440 Chapin on Tuesday, Ending 56 Years at Primrose Road
Burlingame’s city offices reopen Tuesday, Oct. 27, on the third floor of 1440 Chapin Ave., a leased office building the city has agreed to buy for $34.5 million. Council meetings stay at…
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Local Government Peninsula & South Bay Cities Quality of Life Regional Civic Issues Santa Clara CountyPalo Alto Widens Its Overnight RV Ban to 12 Hours Near Homes, Spends $140,000 on Signs, and Hears Caltrain’s Warning About 2028
On a consent-calendar vote Monday, Palo Alto extended its overnight ban on oversized vehicles near residences from four hours to twelve. The same night, Caltrain previewed what hourly trains and closed stations…
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Data Centers & Infrastructure Local Government Megaprojects & Land Use Real Estate Development San Jose City Hall Santa Clara County TechApple Land, a PG&E Substation and Nvidia’s Test Lab: North San Jose Is Being Rewired for the AI Era, One Permit at a Time
In one week, San Jose upheld data center use at an Nvidia-leased building, scheduled a hearing on carving 9.7 acres out of Apple’s North San Jose holdings for a PG&E substation, and…
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Editorial: Vote no on Prop 45. California’s environment is not a billionaire’s permitting problem
Prop 45 would gut California’s bedrock environmental law and could open the door to fast-tracked data centers. Follow the money, and vote no.
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Winchester Mystery House tour guides stage one-day strike as first-contract talks pass the one-year mark
The San Jose landmark’s Teamsters-represented guides walked out Saturday over wages, health care, tour-group caps and likeness waivers. Federal records show an open unfair-labor-practice charge filed this month.
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Justice Department Asks Every California County to Help Check Voters’ Citizenship as Padilla Presses for Its Methods
The Justice Department says more than 20,000 likely noncitizens are registered in California and has asked all 58 counties, including the Bay Area’s, to help verify citizenship and set aside those mail…
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Nvidia defends Jensen Huang’s ties to a Megaspeed-linked executive after reports of a US counterintelligence inquiry; China and Singapore push back
The New York Times reported that US intelligence officials believe Alice Huang, an executive linked to Singapore’s Megaspeed, gathered information for Beijing. Nvidia says Huang’s dealings with her were routine. China called…
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Okta will join the S&P 500 on Wednesday, taking the seat Kenvue vacates in its sale to Kimberly-Clark
S&P Dow Jones Indices says the San Francisco identity-security company will enter the benchmark before the open on Nov. 4. Index funds will have to buy the shares, and the move follows…
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Lofgren, Pallone and Raskin ask frontier AI labs to report safety incidents to Congress within 48 hours, and press NSF on $1.4 billion in unspent research money
Three House Democratic committee leaders asked Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and a fifth company to account for AI misalignment and safety incidents by Nov. 11. Days later, Rep. Zoe Lofgren accused the…
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Sunnyvale’s Proofpoint Bets $6.3 Billion That the Next Security War Is Over What AI Can See
The Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company agreed to buy Varonis for $49.75 a share in cash, a take-private that turns one Valley security firm into a consolidator for the age of AI agents.
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The Quarter of the Mega-Round: Silicon Valley’s Venture Boom Is Getting Narrower, Not Smaller
Third-quarter venture totals fell from 2026’s record pace, but the money is pooling into fewer, larger checks, and the Bay Area still captures roughly a quarter of it worldwide. The bigger question…
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Reading the WARN Notices: Santa Clara County’s Layoff Ledger Since July Is More Industrial Than You’d Think
Thirty state layoff filings since July cover 2,280 Santa Clara County workers. The biggest single notice isn’t from a software giant but from a San Jose manufacturing plant, and manufacturing accounts for…
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The Reported Table: Luna Mexican Kitchen, the Bib Gourmand favorite on The Alameda, marks Día de los Muertos with a sold-out dinner
Jo Lerma-Lopez and John Lopez built Luna on nixtamalized masa, Rancho Gordo beans and Niman Ranch meats. Michelin keeps listing it, and its $195 Día de los Muertos dinner in Campbell sold…
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The Reported Table: Adega, Little Portugal’s Michelin comeback story, where a $125 tasting menu meets a 500-bottle Portuguese cellar
San José’s first Michelin-starred restaurant closed in 2023 and reopened on Alum Rock Avenue in November 2024. Here is what its posted menus and policies say, who runs it, and where it…
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The Reported Table: Selby’s, Atherton’s Michelin-starred supper club, where a $130 prix fixe meets a 20,000-bottle cellar
Selby’s fall dinner menu is a $130 three-course prix fixe with supplements of up to $65 for prime cuts. Michelin calls the room old-school Hollywood, and Wine Spectator gave its cellar a…
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Two days before Election Day, federal courts have set the rules for the Justice Department in California. Here is what they allow and what they bar
A San Francisco federal judge on Friday barred federal officials from threatening or pressuring California election workers, the same day the Ninth Circuit rejected…
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Ro Khanna backs three ‘new generation’ challengers against fellow House Democrats, including Mike Thompson and Doris Matsui
In the campaign’s final week, the Fremont congressman endorsed Eric Jones against Rep. Mike Thompson, Mai Vang against Rep. Doris Matsui and Angela Gonzales-Torres…
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Pelosi phone-banks for Connie Chan as Scott Wiener holds a polling lead in the race to succeed her
In San Francisco’s open 11th District, the former speaker is making calls and showing up at rallies for Supervisor Connie Chan. State Sen. Scott…
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Election night in the Bay Area: when results come in, which delegation races to watch, and why the count takes weeks
San Mateo County posts its first results at 8:10 p.m. Tuesday and Santa Clara County at about 8:05. Here is the schedule, the four…
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If Prop. 45 passes: what would change for South Bay housing, transit and power projects, and when
The CEQA overhaul on Tuesday’s ballot would not approve a single project. It gives developers an optional fast track, with a 365-business-day limit on…
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About one in four South Bay voters have already cast ballots. Here is where, when and how to vote before polls close Tuesday
State figures through Oct. 30 show 24.1% of Santa Clara County’s registered voters and 27% of San Mateo County’s had returned ballots. Santa Clara…
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Santa Clara County’s assessment roll hits a record $760.1 billion, but Prop. 8 reductions nearly triple
The county’s taxable property base grew 4.7% for 2026-27, driven by home sales. Beneath the record, the assessor placed 24,727 properties in decline-in-value status,…
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Palo Alto Built Zero Below-Market Ownership Homes in the 2010s. An Audit Says That Gap Is Now Coming Due
A City Auditor review of Palo Alto’s below-market-rate ownership program counts 247 active units, most built before 2000, and flags hidden HOA costs, aging…
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The County Becomes the Anchor Tenant: Santa Clara Signs On for 30 Years in Two Empty Ex-Qualcomm Towers
A KKR-backed partnership paid $75.5 million for North San Jose’s Skyport Plaza and lined up county government as its tenant through 2059. It is…
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Ten Years, $38 Million, 34 New Grantees: Inside the Chan Zuckerberg Fund Behind San Mateo County’s Small Nonprofits
In the same week Mark Zuckerberg pledged to keep living in California, the family’s local grantmaking arm is marking a decade in San Mateo…
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The Last of the Orchard-Era Dealmakers: Bill Draper’s Atherton Life and the Family Business That Helped Invent Venture Capital
William H. “Bill” Draper III, who knocked on doors in Santa Clara Valley orchards before “venture capital” was a familiar term, died at his…
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Three Galas, One Saturday: What the South Bay’s Giving Class Is Funding Tonight
Tonight, Oct. 17, the Hispanic Foundation Ball, Unravel’s 10th Glitter Gala and a sold-out CAIR-SFBA gala honoring Ro Khanna show what Silicon Valley’s donors…
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Weekend roundup: Curry leads a 25-point Warriors comeback over the Lakers; Stanford, San José State and the Sharks all lose; 49ers rest on their bye
The Warriors beat the Lakers 112-95 after trailing by 25. Stanford fell 52-24 at Louisville, San José State lost 21-16 to unbeaten-in-conference New Mexico,…
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Weekend roundup: 49ers’ unbeaten run ends in Atlanta, Stanford holds off NC State, San José State stalls in Reno
The 49ers lost for the first time, 29-20 at Atlanta, and head into the bye at 6-1 with Christian McCaffrey nursing a mild hamstring…
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Stanford Edges NC State 31-28, San José State Seeks First Win in Reno Since 2000, and the Unbeaten 49ers Head to Atlanta
Davis Warren threw four touchdown passes as Stanford beat NC State late Friday. San José State plays at Nevada this afternoon chasing its first…
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