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Bullying case heads to trial BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
The Palo Alto Unified School District is headed for a trial against a former student who said he was bullied, and school leaders did nothing to help. The case looks back to September 2021, when Joshua Vasquez was a senior and Charles Cicero was a junior at Palo Alto High School. Cicero allegedly created a fake so-
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Claims officials didn’t help kid cial media account and published false rumors about Vasquez’s sexual activities with underaged girls, Vasquez said in his lawsuit. Cicero also urged his football teammates to physically attack Vasquez, the suit said. Vazquez said he often complained
about Cicero’s bullying and harassment, but the district didn’t step in. Vasquez said he suffered “great and severe” physical and emotional pain. Vasquez stopped going to Paly in October 2021. He transferred to Menlo-Atherton High School and obtained a three-year restraining order against
AI frenzy leads to home sales Here’s another place the AI frenzy is making itself felt: the market for luxury homes. High-income earners, many of them employees at AI companies, are snapping up multimillion-dollar houses in the Bay Area, undaunted by the higher mortgage rates and rising home prices that have prevented many would-be buyers from affording a home. The Bay Area buying spree is the clearest manifestation of a nationwide trend of sales of upper-end properties largely holding up better than sales of less expensive homes. Metro areas such as San Diego, Miami, Detroit, Nashville and Tampa, Florida, are also seeing upper-market homes sell at a faster pace. The hotter market for lux-
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Cicero in November 2021, court records show. Now 23 years old, Vasquez lives in the Modesto area with his parents, attorney Mark Davis said in a statement for the district on Tuesday. Davis said the district won’t offer Vasquez a significant settlement because administrators took appropriate action to investigate and end Cicero’s [See BULLYING, page 18]
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Business permits floated by official blocks away just because there are so many RVs clogging up (the streets),” A Palo Alto councilman wants to sell Councilman Keith Reckdahl said at a parking permits exclusively to busi- meeting on Aug. 24. Reckdahl said the city can copy its nesses as a way to move RVs off the residential preferential parking prostreets. “There are some areas where the peo- gram, which allows residents to gather ple who come have to park three, four signatures from half of their neighborBY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
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