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ing properties and then spent years remodeling the space, according to NYT. The situation also reflects jarring floated a new proposal yesterday that personnel. Such efforts would prevent Stone said residents have expressed wealth disparities among the city’s rescould regulate how local billionaires homeowners from ushering in throngs their frustrations and disapproval for idents that need to be addressed, Stone of construction trucks, hog up prime years, but council hasn’t taken any ac- said. manage their properties. “I’m hoping that the City Council will Goodbye to never-ending home land for personal offices or homes and tion. Complaints notably come from renovation projects that congest neigh- create illegal non-residential conver- neighbors of Mark Zuckerberg, who embrace the framework of what we’re borhood streets. Farewell to finished sions, Stone said in an article by the reportedly spent $110 million buying trying to accomplish,” he said. “And the 11 homes in the Crescent Park neigh- spirit of addressing the greatest struggle dwellings left vacant for months and New York Times. In an interview with the Daily Post, borhood, offered to buy out neighborunmarked private security vehicles and [See COMPOUNDS, page 26]
Official wants to stop compounds Palo Alto Councilman Greer Stone BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
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WET WEEK: The National Weather Service says to expect rain beginning today and lasting for the next week. RECLASSIFYING POT: President Trump has signed an executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. This move could ease regulations and expand medical research by shifting marijuana from a Schedule I drug, like heroin, to a Schedule III substance, similar to ketamine. This won’t legalize recreational use nationwide but may alter regulation and taxation. Former President Biden’s Justice Department had also proposed reclassifying marijuana, but Trump’s order yesterday could speed up the process. N.C. PLANE CRASH KILLS 7: Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife, and their two children are among the seven people killed in a plane crash in North Carolina. The Cessna C550 crashed at Statesville Regional Airport, north of Charlotte. The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known.
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District sued over records request suit against the district on Wednesday, alleging it violated the California PubA Jewish advocacy group is suing lic Records Act by refusing to release the Sequoia Union High School Dis- all materials teachers use in ethnic trict for allegedly withholding public studies classes. This is the second time records related to its ethnic studies cur- the district has been sued for withholding records related to ethnic studies. riculum. Attorney for the group, Mark Javitch, A nonprofit called Jewish Legal News, based in San Mateo, filed a law- said the district provided only 86 pages, BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
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most of which were slide presentations. But he said he knows there are more because there wasn’t enough content to fill an entire semester and the multiple classes that are taught in the district. In a previous public records request, Javitch received what students were learning in October at Carlmont High [See SUED, page 26]
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After a year of jail deaths and leadership turmoil, San Mateo County Sheriff Ken Binder says he is rebuilding the department – starting with accountability. Binder has been in office for a month after being appointed by the Board of Supervisors, following Christina Corpus’ firing on Oct. 14 for retaliation and nepotism. Since his first day, he has hit the ground running, working long hours to address working conditions, rebuilding morale and restoring the environment in the sheriff’s office, Binder said. With a leader who stands for accountability, there is no need for over[See SHERIFF, page 26]
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