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families, I imagine that in a moment where everyone is talking about affordability, when you’re seeing all of your Parcel taxes for schools in Palo Alto expenses go up, it makes you less inand Redwood City are failing because clined to voluntarily give more of your affordability is on every voter’s mind, a strapped,” Menlo College professor both well short of the two-thirds need- money to the government.” political scientist said yesterday. Sales taxes on the November ballot “While folks want to support schools Melissa Michelson said in an interview. ed to pass. The Palo Alto Unified School Dis“Yes, there’s a lot of folks in Palo could do better because more Demoand understand these local tax measures are really needed, there’s only trict’s parcel tax has 61% support, and Alto school district, other local school crats tend to show up in higher-turnout so much pain that voters are willing the Redwood City Elementary School districts, who are affluent and comfort- general elections, Michelson said. The [See TAXES, page 18] to take when they’re already feeling District’s parcel tax has 58% support — able,” Michelson said. “Even for those
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It was a good night for normie Democrats, a bad one for self-funded campaigns, a mixed bag for state legislators aspiring to higher office and another electoral reminder of President Donald Trump’s dominant role in our politics — even in deepest blue California. At the top of the ticket, Republican former Fox News host and British political adviser Steve Hilton and longtime Democratic politico Xavier Becerra hold the top two spots needed to progress to the November election for governor. Tom Steyer, the billionaire former hedge fund manager turned left-leaning political donor, is holding a distant though technically viable XAVIER BECERRA at an election night event in Los Angeles on Tuesday. [See TAKEAWAYS, page 18] AP photo.
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Santa Clara County has agreed to pay $192,783 to three employees who lost their jobs because they refused to take the Covid vaccine, court records show. The employees want the county to
pay another $2.1 million in attorney The employees said they were un$200,000? fees. comfortable because vaccines were The county settled a lawsuit from the tested on fetal cells from abortions, and employees rather than going to a jury they believe abortion is murder. trial on Monday. The case was filed by “Some (employees) also have sinnurses Maria Ramirez and Elizabeth cerely held religious beliefs, rooted in Baluyut and air conditioning mechanic Scripture, that their bodies are temples [See VAX, page 18] Tom Davis.
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