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Menlo Park residents, business owners organize opposition to city’s plan to build housing on downtown parking lots
A group of Menlo Park residents and business owners have organized a movement to urge the Menlo Park City Council to reconsider its plan, up for vote in January, to build affordable housing on three city-owned parking lots in downtown Menlo Park.
Guest opinion: San Mateo County Needs AB 1185 for transparent and accountable governance
Guest opinion: The troubling challenges it faces cannot be ignored, and the Board of Supervisors must act now, and decisively to restore trust and ensure effective public safety for all residents.
Rain in the Bay Area, region’s first precipitation since before Thanksgiving
Light rain is expected late Wednesday into early Thursday, mainly in the North Bay, followed by a stronger system that is forecasted to arrive in the region late Friday into Saturday, bringing up to 3 inches of rain and wind gusts of up to 40-50 mph at higher elevations and along the coast, weather service officials said.
Sound artist Evicshen performs at museum’s Thursday night music series
San Francisco experimental sound artist Evicshen performs Dec. 12 as part of the Cantor Arts Center’s Forms & Frequencies music series.
Federal health care dollars are helping to house homeless Californians. Trump could stop that
Gov. Newsom launched an ambitious program that uses Medi-Cal to help Californians access housing, healthy food and more. Now, its fate is in the hands of President-Elect Trump.
Is Silicon Valley housing market on track to outperform the nation in 2025? This expert thinks so.
Despite high interest rates and a dire inventory shortage, Silicon Valley’s housing market had a tremendous year and could likely outperform the nation as a whole in 2025, according to local sales data that Dave Walsh, former president and state treasurer for the California Association of Realtors and broker manager at the Compass Los Altos and San Jose offices, tracked throughout the year.
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Music: A Chanticleer Christmas
The San Francisco men’s chorus performs their annual holiday show at Stanford Live, featuring a new program every year.
Holidays at Filoli
The Filoli estate’s gardens and historic mansion are decorated for the holidays, with special activities that include private fire pit rentals with warm drinks on the terrace; holiday tea in the Garden House, behind-the-scenes house tours and wreath-making workshops.
TOMORROW
Holiday: Atherton Tree Lighting
The town of Atherton hosts a celebration and tree lighting.
Hillbarn Theatre stages a musical inspired by the animated film that journeys from the waning Russian Empire to the streets of 1920s Paris in telling the story of a brave young woman named Anya on a quest to uncover the mystery of her past.
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