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San Mateo County Supervisor Jackie Speier addresses a crowd of roughly 200 at Fire Station 9 in Redwood City to call for a solution to the state’s Vehicle License Fee backfill dilemma. Photo by Miranda de Moraes

More than $1 billion that San Mateo County and its 20 cities are counting on over the next decade may never make it home due to what local officials say is a broken state Vehicle License Fee funding formula. 

At a Redwood City press conference on April 7, county and city officials urged the state to release money it says it’s owed and to permanently fix the Vehicle License Fee (VLF) mechanism that has left San Mateo County among the few counties excluded from funding. […]

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Miranda de Moraes is a Brazilian-American So-Cal native, who earned her bachelor's at U.C. Santa Barbara and master's at Columbia Journalism School. She’s reported up and down the coast of California...