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Palo Alto Councilmember Julie Lythcott-Haims, tech entrepreneur Peter Dixon announce bids for U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo’s congressional seat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:12 GMT

Two more Democrats have jumped into the increasingly crowded race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo — Palo Alto City Councilmember Julie Lythcott-Haims and tech entrepreneur Peter Dixon.After nearly three decades in Congress, Eshoo, 80, announced last month that she won’t seek re-election, giving a rare chance for congressional-hopefuls to run for her coveted District 16 seat, which spans from Pacifica in the north to San Jose, Los Gatos and Pescadero in the south.Lythcott-Haims, who was elected to the council in 2022, said that if elected she plans on continuing her advocacy for affordable housing, youth mental health, climate change, workers’ rights, reproductive rights and accessible healthcare.“Our Congressional District is one of the most prosperous communities on the planet, yet so many have been left behind,” she said in a press release announcing her candidacy. “Every year, the cost-of-living outpaces wages and salaries. Our kids do...

Detached house sells in Palo Alto for $3.2 million

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:12 GMT

160 Washington Avenue – Google Street ViewA 1,447-square-foot house built in 1948 has changed hands. The property located in the 100 block of Washington Avenue in Palo Alto was sold on Nov. 15, 2023. The $3,200,000 purchase price works out to $2,211 per square foot. The layout of this single-story home consists of three bedrooms and two baths. The home’s outer structure has wood shake roofing / shingles. Inside, a fireplace adds character to the home. In addition, the home is equipped with an attached one-car garage, ensuring secure parking and storage.Additional houses have recently been sold nearby:A 5,588-square-foot home on the 2100 block of Emerson Street in Palo Alto sold in June 2023, for $10,000,000, a price per square foot of $1,790. The home has 7 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms.On Emerson Street, Palo Alto, in November 2022, a 1,400-square-foot home was sold for $3,300,000, a price per square foot of $2,357. The home has 2 bedrooms 1 bathroom.In December 2022, a 1,131-square-foo...

Abortion opponents push state lawmakers to promote unproven ‘abortion reversal’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:12 GMT

Anna Claire Vollers | Stateline.org (TNS)Anti-abortion organizations are pushing state lawmakers to promote a controversial and unproven “abortion reversal” treatment — flouting the objections of medical professionals who point out it is not supported by science.In the past several years, Republican lawmakers in at least 14 states have passed laws requiring health care providers to give patients information about abortion reversal. Kansas became the 15th state this year. Meanwhile, Democratic-controlled Colorado this year moved in the opposite direction, becoming the first state to effectively ban abortion reversal treatment, designating it as medical misconduct.The treatment involves prescribing the hormone progesterone, used for decades to help prevent miscarriage, to stem the effects of mifepristone, one of the drugs used for medication abortions. Medication abortion already accounts for a growing majority of U.S. abortions, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in recent yea...

Pearl Harbor survivors return to honor those who perished

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:12 GMT

By Audrey McAvoy and Claire Rush | Associated PressPEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor’s uniform and closed his locker aboard the USS Dobbin when he heard a call for a fire rescue party.He went topside to see the USS Utah capsizing and Japanese planes in the air. He scurried back below deck to grab boxes of ammunition and joined a daisy chain of sailors feeding shells to an anti-aircraft gun up above. He remembers being only 140 pounds (63.50 kilograms) as a 21-year-old, but somehow finding the strength to lift boxes weighing almost twice that.“We were pretty startled. Startled and scared to death,” Schab, now 103, said at his home in Beaverton, Oregon, where he lives with his daughter. “We didn’t know what to expect and we knew that if anything happened to us, that would be it.”Eighty-two years later, Schab returned to Pearl Harbor Thursday on the anniversary of the attack to remember the mo...

A California couple bought a house in France for $20,000 without seeing it. Here’s what happened

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:12 GMT

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill | CNNHer fascination with France began when she spent a summer in the European country while working as an au pair back back in the 1970s.From then on, Ellen, originally from the East Coast of the US, made it her mission to travel to France whenever she got the chance to.She met her now husband Joseph, from the West Coast, in the late 1970s and the couple went on to marry and have three children, continuing to travel to the country as a family once every two years or so.“It’s funny, Joseph and our daughter would tease me, because anytime we were planning a vacation, I always wanted to come to France,” Ellen admits.“They liked France too, but they would say, ‘Can we go somewhere else?’ [I would say,] ‘Yes, as long as we stop in Paris first or something like that.’ So, it was a compromise usually.”‘Half house’They completed extensive renovation work on the home over a period of nearly seven years, replacing the floors and walls, as well as the electrics and p...

Golden State no more? California budget deficit balloons to $68 billion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:12 GMT

California faces a $68 billion deficit in its budget, largely as a result of a severe revenue decline in the current 2022‑23 fiscal year, the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office reported Thursday.“The state faces a serious budget deficit,” the analyst’s office said. “We estimate the Legislature will need to solve a budget problem of $68 billion in the upcoming budget process.”Gov. Gavin Newsom must present a proposed 2023-2024 budget early next month.Typically, the budget process does not involve large changes in revenue in the prior year, the LAO said, because prior‑year taxes usually have been filed and associated revenues collected. But because of federal tax filing extensions this year, the Legislature is now gaining a complete picture of 2022‑23 tax collections after the fiscal year has already ended.The LAO said that 2022‑23 revenue will be $26 billion below budget estimates.“This creates unique and difficult challenges — ...

Annual public menorah lighting is back at SF Union Square

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:12 GMT

(KRON) -- The 48th annual public menorah lighting “Chanukah in Union Square” kicks off on Thursday at 3 p.m. The event will have live music for the gathering. At 5 p.m., the first lighting ceremony will commence.  Globally, Mariah Carey is still dominating Christmas The ceremony will take place at San Francisco's Union Square.This lighting ceremony has been happening in San Francisco since 1975 and is open to everyone. The event is sponsored by the Bill Graham Menorah Project. The initial ceremony garnered support from the late rock promoter and Holocaust survivor Bill Graham.     After Graham’s death, Chabad wanted to honor his memory by dedicating the menorah in his name. 

US Soccer Federation to built training center in Lileth, Georgia, outside Atlanta

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:12 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation’s new training center will be built in Triluth, Georgia, about 20 miles from downtown Atlanta and a 30-minute drive from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.The USSF announced the specific site Thursday after saying on Sept. 15 it intended to construct a complex in the Atlanta area. Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United owner Arthur Blank is contributing $50 million for the project. The complex will be more than 200 acres.The USSF said in 2002 that the complex in Carson, California, would serve as its national training center. While that has been used often for winter training camps, the men’s national team has located training ahead of games at sites more convenient for its matches, such as in Florida ahead of games in the Caribbean and Central America and near the venues of home games. U.S. Soccer also opened a national development center in Kansas City, Kansas, in 2018.The federation’s headquarters was in New York, then mo...

Desperation grows among Palestinians trapped with little aid as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:12 GMT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Desperation grew Thursday among Palestinians largely cut off from supplies of food and water as Israeli forces engaged in fierce urban battles with Hamas militants. Strikes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah sowed fear in one of the last places where civilians could seek refuge.United Nations officials say there are no safe places in Gaza nearly a week after Israel widened its offensive into the southern half of the territory. Heavy fighting in and around the city of Khan Younis has displaced tens of thousands of people and cut most of Gaza off from aid deliveries. More than 80% of the territory’s population has already fled their homes.Two months into the war, the grinding offensive has triggered renewed international alarm. U.N Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used a rarely exercised power to warn the Security Council of an impending “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza and urged members to demand a cease-fire.Gutteres explicitly cited Articl...

Michigan State coach Jonathan Smith brings much of his Oregon State staff with him to lead Spartans

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:36:12 GMT

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State hired Jonathan Smith away from Oregon State last week and the coach is bringing much of his previous staff with him.Smith announced his first wave of additions to the coaching and support staff on Thursday, and each person has ties to him and the Beavers.Quickly after Smith left, Oregon State promoted defensive coordinator Trent Bray to head coach.Bray, who also played at Oregon State, had served as the Beavers’ defensive coordinator since midway through the 2021 season.Smith’s first staff at Michigan State will include offensive coordinator Brian Lindgren, who will also coach quarterbacks, and assistant head coach Keith Bhonapha, who will also lead the running backs.The Spartans’ secondary will be led by Blue Adams, Jim Michalczik will coach the offensive line, Legi Suiaunoa the defensive line and Brian Wozniak will serve as tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator.Strength and conditioning coach Mike McDonald, chief of staff...