Features
BLM Protestors March Through Menlo Park,
Demand end to police brutality in wake of Tyre Nichols’ death. To demonstrators, San Mateo County is just as vulnerable to police violence as Memphis is
Gun Retail Regulations in Redwood City
To attendees of Redwood City’s community forum firearms retail regulations, the minimum 300-foot buffer zone between gun shops and schools is still too close for comfort.
At long last, Palo Alto home under construction for 16 years finished
The uniquely domed project prompted two building ordinances and a decade of neighborhood complaints
Redwood City's first cannabis dispensary
Hordes of cannabis enthusiasts—some wearing tie-dye shirts with “Weed makes me happy” written on them—wrapped around the block of Broadway and Walnut streets in Redwood City on Saturday in keen anticipation of the grand opening of Embarc, the first cannabis dispensary on the Peninsula.
Artist transforms garage into Day of the Dead altar
Packed with pallets, art easels and Mexican skeleton dolls, Virginia Gutiérrez Porter's garage-slash-art studio will soon be transformed into an immersive altar for Día de Muertos. Read here.
Lion dancers, acrobats and unicyclists, oh my!
In front of the drab backdrop of gray clouds, Chinese lion dancers fluttered their vibrant red, yellow and purple furs around Courthouse Square. Children balancing on glowy, red balls rolled in, circling the lions, in the last hurrah of the Lunar New Year festival’s opening ceremony.
Two Education Reports, Two Decades Apart
The Johns Hopkins report describes public education in Providence as dreadful. Dysfunctional. Heartbreaking. Some of the anecdotes presented in the report are astonishing. In one school, raw sewage leaked from the ceiling and onto children’s heads. In another, ESL teachers didn’t speak Spanish, despite being many Spanish-speaking students’ only academic resource. Bullying occurred everyday at lunch in an elementary school, and stealing from backpacks happened frequently. Seeing some of the observed school buildings’ conditions even brought “seasoned members of the [Johns Hopkins] team to tears. Read here.
James Hogue
I revisit the incredible story of James Hogue, who is infamous for posing as a student at Palo Alto High School in 1985 and Princeton University from 1986 to 1988. I covered Hogue’s most recent arrest and spoke to his childhood best friend and past running coaches and teachers. Find here.
Civil Death
I reported on a Rhode Island statute that strips people incarcerated for life of their civil rights. For this story, I spoke to civil rights attorneys, scholars and activists about the implications of the civil death law. Find here.