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Gas water heater ban OK’d BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
Bay Area officials decided yesterday that curbing pollution is more important than affordability of water heaters right now. The Bay Area Air District advanced its ban on buying natural gas water heaters, which are $3,500 cheaper than electric water heaters but emit nitrous oxides that cause lung problems, stud-
Regional ban begins next year ies show. The ban will take effect on Oct. 1, 2027. Low-income residents or homeowners spending more than 28% of their income on their mortgage would be exempt. Contractors could also get an exemption for homes that don’t have the space or electrical capacity.
“I am very optimistic about the ability of our grid and our electrical supply to handle this,” Palo Alto Mayor Vicki Veenker said at yesterday’s meeting. Veenker compared nitrous oxides to secondhand smoke. She was one of 10 board members to support the ban, overruling eight board members against it.
Robotics teacher loses suit
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SHELTER OPENING: The city of Palo Alto is having a ribbon-cutting for its $37.2 million homeless shelter east of Highway 101 today. The shelter will have space for 24 families and 58 single adults, with services provided by the nonprofit LifeMoves. TRUMP WELCOMED: U.S. President Trump has arrived in Beijing for a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. His welcome included a military honor guard, a military band and hundreds of Chinese youths waving flags and chanting, “Warm welcome!” Trump and Xi will hold bilateral talks today. The talks are expected to focus on the Iran war, trade and U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. PERRY DEATH: A licensed drug addiction counselor who delivered the ketamine that killed “Friends” star Matthew Perry has been sentenced to two years. LAST TANKER: A tanker carrying approximately 2 million barrels of Iraqi crude has arrived at the Port of Long Beach — the final planned shipment from the Middle East to
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From the Peninsula, San Mateo County Supervisor Noelia Corzo and Mountain View Councilman Chris Clark were in favor, and San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller was against. “This is a historic expansion of the district’s regulatory power,” Mueller said. “Do we want to do this at this current time, with the current administration?” Clark said he’s grateful that [See GAS, page 26]
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
SMALL CRAFT CRASHES
A gyrocopter went off the runway and leaked fuel at the Palo Alto Airport yesterday around 3:30 p.m. The pilot was OK, emergency dispatchers said. Gyrocopters rely on air to spin their rotors for lift and engines to move forward through the sky, according to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Post photo by Braden Cartwright.
A jury has ruled against a former Palo Alto High School robotics coach who said she was bullied, insulted and undermined because she’s a woman and a lesbian. The jury sided with the Palo Alto Unified School District on Tuesday after a trial that looked back at Kathy Krier’s tumultuous nineweek tenure in fall 2018. Krier, 63, complained about a group of parent boosters who raised money for the team and encouraged students to complain about her because she was part of a “far-left social justice warrior agenda.” “A woman can’t do this job,” a booster [See ROBOTICS, page 26]
Senate confirms Stanford’s Warsh
The U.S. Senate yesterday confirmed Stanford’s Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve. President Donald Trump had picked the former Fed governor to replace Jerome Powell, believing that Warsh can deliver the booming
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