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Redwood City float celebrates Italian American heritage in Fourth of July parade
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (563+ words) When Redwood City's Fourth of July parade makes its way through downtown this weekend, one float will showcase faith, family and heritage, with Italian and American flags, classic American music and a family tradition behind it." Each year, the Peninsula…...
California launches AI job-loss tracker to monitor workforce impacts
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (237+ words) California has launched what state officials describe as the nation's first public dashboard to track potential job losses linked to artificial intelligence, part of an effort to monitor how the technology is affecting the workforce." Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the…...
Dead crow in Menlo Park is year's first case of West Nile virus in San Mateo County
2+ day, 23+ min ago (376+ words) A dead crow near Nealon Park in Menlo Park tested positive for West Nile virus on June 24, marking the first detection of the disease in San Mateo County this year." The carcass was reported through the West Nile virus call…...
The 43rd annual Fountain Blues & Brews Festival brings blues fans to their feet
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (786+ words) Bay Area guitarist Terry Hiatt isn't the retiring sort. Hiatt has been performing for over 50 years, and his genre-bending set made its latest appearance at the San Jose Fountain Blues & Brews Festival on Saturday evening. Plaza de C'sar Ch'vez came…...
Trump wanted to cut the Department of Education into irrelevancy. A new report shows how he did it
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (495+ words) The U. S. Department of Education may no longer be able to fully support students, it says in an internal report that lays bare the full extent of the Trump Administration's first round of government cuts. The report also says that because…...
Redwood City Pulse honored with 16 awards in statewide journalism contest
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (288+ words) The annual contest, organized by the California News Publishers Association, recognizes outstanding journalism by newsrooms across the state. The recognitions reflect the Pulse's focus on local journalism rooted in Redwood City and San Mateo County " stories about residents, public agencies,…...
Redwood City to install heat traffic sensors at 25 intersections
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (396+ words) Active Monitoring Locations " 9 Intersections Redwood City will place up to 25 new thermal traffic surveillance systems within the next three years to improve road safety and flow as part of a routine roadway retrofit. The Redwood City Council approved nearly $730, 000 on…...
What the federal probe of Newsom and the first partner means for his presidential ambitions
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (661+ words) Last week Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed in a video and a social media post that the U. S. Department of Justice is investigating him and his wife, framing it as a political attack by President Donald Trump. "Donald Trump isn't just coming…...
They asked 6, 000 Californians about inequality and learned how we live with it
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (356+ words) In their new book, UC Berkeley sociologists G. Cristina Mora and Tianna S. Paschel set out to understand how we make sense of the difference between the California we see in the movies and the California we see while we're driving our…...
California agencies disciplined officers for biased conduct, but they rarely lost their jobs
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (1668+ words) In April 2023, the FBI discovered that Rafael Silva, an officer with the Delano Police Department in'California's Central Valley, had made violent threats against transgender people on Tik Tok. Yet only about 12% were fired because of their conduct. Silva was not…...