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On a warm Thursday at the end of September, Michelle Waters Pritchett serves lunch to the homeless men and women at the Opportunity Center, a facility in Palo Alto offering services for the homeless and people in need. Olive skinned, dark haired, and once homeless herself, Pritchett volunteers daily in the kitchen of the Opportunity
After 32 years of climbing the ranks at IBM and Apple, Margie Sanchez has her sights set on growing California Solar Screens into a successful entrepreneurial venture.
The Alameda County Transportation Commission has started funding classes that encourage seniors to exercise regularly and walk or use public transit to get to their destinations.
Palo Alto residents fear high-speed rail will destroy the El Palo Alto “Heritage Tree.”
On Oct. 14, protesters gathered at San Jose’s Terraine Courthouse to protest the arrests of 22 medicinal marijuana delivery people in a Sept. 30 police sting.
Karen Morss, a self-proclaimed “Orchardess,” pilots airplanes, pens children’s books and is inventing an iPad application. Yet few things match her devotion to the Meyer lemon.
As chairman of a Silicon Valley medicinal marijuana advocacy group, Lauren Vazquez splits her time working as an attorney and organizing protests for pot. Related news: Weed on Wheels.
Stanford University economist Alain Enthoven has made a career of fighting wasteful spending in the public and private sectors. Recently, he published a report lining out the financial ramifications of the high-speed rail project, concluding that it will most likely never be profitable.
It’s unclear what’s more surprising: that a Golf & Recreation Division Manager stepped up to front Palo Alto’s major suicide prevention initiative, or that he turned out to be an ideal choice. Related Story: Palo Alto’s Project Safety Net describes suicide warning signs