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beginning. “They’ve just finished setting up camp. They have tents that are for storage and tents that are for where The cities of Los Altos and Sunny“While homelessness is a sad situa- they live. So it’s not growing, although vale have been pitted against each oth- mont Avenue. “He wanted us to actualer in their efforts to ban the homeless ly get out of the city,” Gouveia told Los tion, it’s unacceptable to let encamp- it may have the illusion of growing,” Altos City Council on Tuesday. ments take root and flourish at the ex- Rapoza told council. from camping on public property. The encampment started on Valley Fremont Avenue neighbor Cheryl pense of those who have worked hard Homeless resident Michael Gouveia Water property at the border between said a Sunnyvale police officer told Dautel said the encampment has tripled to be here,” Dautel told council. Julia Rapoza, who lives in her car in Sunnyvale and Los Altos, neighhim and his girlfriend to move into Los in size since moving to Los Altos on Altos and showed them a map of where April 6 — averaging one new resident Los Altos, said the same three people bor Ethan Daniels said. Valley Water have lived in the encampment since the they were allowed by a creek off Fre- per week. [See HOMELESS, page 22]
On a map of the next town over
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
Who’s the toughest?
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GERRYMANDERING RULING: The Supreme Court has weakened a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere. In a 6-3 ruling, the court’s conservative majority yesterday struck down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana. The decision opens the door for more redistricting across the country that could aid Republican efforts to control the House. POWELL PLANS TO STAY: Jerome Powell plans to remain on the board of the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends next month “for an undetermined period of time.” Meanwhile, the Senate Banking Committee approved Powell's successor as chair, Trump appointee Kevin Warsh, on a party-line vote. SHOOTER’S SELFIE: The man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and kill President Trump took a picture of himself in his hotel room just minutes earlier.
BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
One of the biggest fights in a San Mateo County jail was over who was the toughest inmate, a prosecutor said yesterday. Ten inmates involved in a fight with about 20 other inmates are now being charged seven months later [See JAIL, page 22]
NEW DOWNTOWN GATEWAY
The Mountain View City Council has approved plans for a new eight-story apartment complex at Castro Street and West El Camino Real. See story on PAGE 11. Rendering from developer GPR Ventures.
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The Menlo Park City Council has decided to abandon a plan to charge local newspapers a fee for dis[See NEWS RACKS, page 23]
District agrees to release records
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failing to support disabled students. The district agreed to fulfill the records request and pay $29,459 in attorThe Palo Alto Unified School Disney fees within 30 days, according to trict has settled a lawsuit with two paran agreement filed in court on April 15. ents who requested hundreds of doc“The requested information will shed uments meant to show the district is BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
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light on educational quality and disparities within the district,” parents William Nee and Wei-Wei Lin said in their lawsuit. Nee and Lin sent a California Public [See RECORDS, page 22]
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