Redwood City Pulse

Redwood City voters will weigh in on one state office and two House seats in the upcoming November election. Following the June primary, a Democratic and a Republican candidate in each race have advanced to face off in the Nov. 3 general election. Diane Papan, right, and Jabra J. Muhawieh, left. California Assembly District 21 For California Assembly District 21, Democratic incumbent Diane Papan will run against Republican Jabra J. Muhawieh to represent most of San Mateo County at the state level.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Starting next year, Californians who provide legal aid, counseling or other types of assistance to immigrants will be eligible for a privacy program that keeps their addresses confidential and out of public records. Gov.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Companies backing data center construction are flooding Sacramento with cash, hoping to stop or defang seven bills that would regulate the facilities as they head toward approval in the California Legislature this week. The pro-data-center spenders include Big Tech companies like Amazon and AI titan Anthropic.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Democratic California lawmakers are pushing a last-minute bill to ban federal agents from using electric shock gloves, becoming one of the first states in the nation to respond to reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to purchase thousands of gloves next year as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown.

Coming from a family of social workers, I’ve always assumed that charity should be distributed based on need, with those needing the most receiving the most. So, when a friend, Linda Miller, mentioned that, in the past three years, she’d made and then delivered lasagnas to more than a hundred strangers – in other words, people about whom she knew almost nothing – I was incredulous. I was even more taken aback when I learned that she’s far from alone.

An author, an assassin, an activist and France’s deposed queen meet during the French Revolution and imagine a better world in “The Revolutionists” at Los Altos Stage Company. Courtesy Christian Pizzirani.

Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader system has come under growing scrutiny over privacy concerns. Peninsula cities including Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Redwood City and Mountain View have discovered searches or data-sharing practices that violated local policies or state law. Photo by Michael Molcsan.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. Grace Coleman piensa mucho en su crimen, prácticamente todo el tiempo, todos los días. Matar a dos personas mientras conducía ebria la obligó a empezar a verse a sí misma desde una perspectiva de responsabilidad sin filtros.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California lawmakers agreed to a deal that will allow survivors of childhood sexual assault at public institutions to continue to sue the public bodies they say are responsible for their trauma.

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors discussed the county’s juvenile offender program at a meeting on Aug. 25. File photo of a Board of Supervisors meeing on Aug. 13, 2026. courtesy of Alise Maripuu/Bay City News. Numerous community groups and agencies involved in San Mateo County’s juvenile offender programs and services spoke at the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, Aug. 25, in a town hall about the need for coordination between agencies and areas for improvement.