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After meeting families in Burma who depended upon kerosene lanterns to light their daily tasks, Stanford student Erica Estrada recreated their living conditions in Palo Alto and developed safe, affordable lighting.
The proposed 300,000-square-foot Big Wave Development project near Half Moon Bay includes housing for disabled adults and a large office complex that many say doesn’t belong on the coast.
Coastside split over housing and office park development near Half Moon Bay (VIDEO) Read More »
Freecycle is a website that connects local residents who want to get rid of old furniture and household items with people in the community who will take them. Everything listed on the site is free.
The San Mateo South Bayfront Levee Improvements Project is designed to reduce flood risk for 8,000 local properties. The city’s public works department is working with FEMA to lower insurance rates in the area.
San Mateo to improve levees and lower residents’ flood insurance rates (VIDEO) Read More »
Some Santa Clara employees will begin receiving layoff notices this week, but there is still time to avert job losses.
Santa Clara employees begin receiving layoff notices Read More »
San Mateo’s public works department has proposed taking $1.4 million budgeted for a downtown parking garage and using the money to bolster flood prevention in neighborhoods south of San Mateo Creek.
San Mateo levee project may pull funding from parking expansion Read More »
In San Carlos, employees doing the same jobs have different pensions depending upon when they were hired, and the city is negotiating even leaner benefits for future city workers.
Cash-strapped San Carlos may cut pensions for future workers Read More »
New hybrid buses are gradually hitting the streets of Peninsula communities. Hybrid buses will join line 35, which serves Palo Alto, Mountain View and Stanford, by the end of January.
New hybrid buses arriving in Peninsula communities Read More »
Gail Maderis, president and chief executive officer of BayBio, a South San Francisco-based nonprofit trade association serving the Northern California life science industry, sees collaboration as the secret to success.
Biotech executive lends expertise to nonprofit organization Read More »
