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Despite defeat in court, Mountain View's mobile home residents fight to expand rent controlFor years, Mountain View's mobile home residents have waged a legal battle to extend the city's rent control law to its six...
Original post made on Jan. 19, 2021Last comment by OldGuy, 2 hours ago | 2 comments | 1808 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Santa Clara County holds back batch of Moderna vaccine that potentially causes allergic reactionsA specific lot of the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 potentially caused a "higher-than-usual" number of allergic reactions...
Original post made on Jan. 18, 2021Last comment by 7x7native, 10 hours ago | 4 comments | 1401 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Local health care providers reeling from huge spike in demand for vaccineHealth care providers in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are reeling from a massive spike in requests for COVID-19 vaccines...
Original post made on Jan. 18, 2021Last comment by Steven Nelson, 14 hours ago | 2 comments | 2484 Views
OTHER ISSUES
California's new goal: Vaccinate a million people in 10 daysAcknowledging that vaccinations have been too slow, state officials aim to ramp up the pace. But many questions remain about...
Original post made on Jan. 18, 2021Last comment by Tal Shaya, on Jan 18, 2021 at 4:03 pm | 1 comment | 2152 Views
OTHER ISSUES
County inmates report unsafe conditions, go on hunger strike as COVID-19 cases soarInmates in Santa Clara County's jails are on a hunger strike as cases of COVID-19 rage through the correctional system amid...
Original post made on Jan. 18, 2021Last comment by addressing systemic racism, on Jan 18, 2021 at 2:59 pm | 1 comment | 1377 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Santa Clara County ramps up COVID-19 vaccinations amid chaotic federal allocationsSanta Clara County leaders are concerned they won't have enough COVID-19 doses to continue building up their vaccination...
Original post made on Jan. 15, 2021Last comment by Andrea Gemmet, on Jan 18, 2021 at 1:56 pm | 2 comments | 1702 Views
ELECTIONS
Editorial: The menace in the White HouseHopes were high among many going into the new year, buoyed by the beginning of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. But the pandemic...
Original post made on Jan. 17, 2021Last comment by home of elitists, on Jan 18, 2021 at 8:57 am | 3 comments | 853 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
How Mountain View and Los Altos schools are approaching reopeningTwo distinct approaches to reopening schools are playing out in the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District and...
Original post made on Jan. 14, 2021Last comment by Mt View Resident, on Jan 16, 2021 at 6:45 pm | 6 comments | 5830 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Santa Clara County unveils COVID-19 vaccine dashboardSanta Clara County launched a new online dashboard on Friday that tracks the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses received and...
Original post made on Jan. 16, 2021Last comment by SRB, on Jan 16, 2021 at 1:12 pm | 1 comment | 5904 Views
RESTAURANTS
Slice of the pie: How this South Bay pizza shop successfully became a worker-owned cooperativeAs calls for better treatment of restaurant workers have become louder and louder, particularly during the pandemic, A Slice...
Original post made on Jan. 13, 2021Last comment by A, on Jan 16, 2021 at 12:08 pm | 2 comments | 3939 Views
ELECTIONS
'I will vote to impeach this traitor': Rep. Anna Eshoo supports removing Trump from officeGranted only 30 seconds to speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Anna Eshoo did not mince words regarding...
Original post made on Jan. 13, 2021Last comment by Dave Smith, on Jan 15, 2021 at 8:22 pm | 3 comments | 1349 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Santa Clara County works to clear hurdles to vaccinationsOne month after the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Santa Clara County, county leaders are hurrying to fix shortcomings...
Original post made on Jan. 15, 2021Last comment by Tal Shaya, on Jan 15, 2021 at 3:56 pm | 5 comments | 2505 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Supervisors to consider requiring health care systems to provide vaccination plansSeeking to know how many vaccines are being given out, Santa Clara County supervisors will consider requiring large health...
Original post made on Jan. 13, 2021Last comment by Victor Bishop, on Jan 15, 2021 at 2:57 pm | 5 comments | 2243 Views
ELECTIONS
New Mountain View City Council calls for civility amid election protestsMountain View's first City Council meeting of the year stuck to tradition as best it could during unusual times, bidding...
Original post made on Jan. 15, 2021Last comment by Rich Hoemoner, on Jan 15, 2021 at 2:40 pm | 2 comments | 2344 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Santa Clara County opens up COVID-19 vaccines to all residents age 75 and olderAll Santa Clara County residents age 75 and older are eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine effective immediately, vastly...
Original post made on Jan. 14, 2021Last comment by Dave Williams, on Jan 14, 2021 at 4:22 pm | 4 comments | 2321 Views
AROUND TOWN
Sheriff's Office forms task force to investigate right-wing extremistsThe Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has formed a special task force to combat right-wing extremists due to the recent...
Original post made on Jan. 13, 2021There are no comments yet. 1263 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Mountain View police arrest two men following child porn investigationPolice arrested two men in Mountain View on Tuesday after one was found allegedly distributing child pornography over Facebook....
Original post made on Jan. 13, 2021Last comment by It's abuse, on Jan 13, 2021 at 2:58 pm | 1 comment | 2506 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Under assault: data shows Santa Clara County hospital workers routinely attacked on the jobEach year, hundreds of health care workers in Santa Clara County hospitals are punched, kicked, spat on, slapped or worse,...
Original post made on Jan. 12, 2021Last comment by Drew Neckar, on Jan 13, 2021 at 6:36 am | 2 comments | 7021 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Stanford Shopping Center was a hot spot of violations when public health inspectors came callingEighteen stores in the Stanford Shopping Center were fined for violating Santa Clara County COVID-19 health orders over the...
Original post made on Jan. 12, 2021Last comment by Victor Bishop, on Jan 12, 2021 at 3:53 pm | 2 comments | 9839 Views
OTHER ISSUES
VTA plans to run more buses on seven lines, so fewer riders are left behindSanta Clara Valley Transportation Authority is going to run some bus lines more frequently so fewer passengers get left behind,...
Original post made on Jan. 12, 2021Last comment by Bruce Karney, on Jan 12, 2021 at 3:42 pm | 2 comments | 1730 Views
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