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A woman bikes over the Alto-Menlo bike bridge that connects Menlo Park to Palo Alto in May 2018. This year’s Bike Palo Alto event on Sept. 29 features four routes across the city. Photo by Adam Pardee. Palo Alto residents and employees are encouraged to ride their bikes Thursday as part of the annual Bike […]

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California just gave plastic producers until 2032 to make all their packaging recyclable or compostable — the most ambitious deadline in the country. Advocates say it doesn’t go far enough. Producers say it goes too far. At least one of them is threatening […]

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Eleven weeks into the Iran war and a global energy shock, California drivers are paying the highest gas prices in the nation, an average of $6.15 a gallon this week. The pain at the pump is colliding with California’s ambitious push away from […]

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. San Diego County Board Chair Terra Lawson-Remer pitched a plan to reform the county charter by adding an ethics commission, fiscal watchdogs and an open budget process, while giving supervisors longer term limits and more say over senior staff. It aims to improve […]

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Four years ago, Jerome Grayson was arrested on suspicion of shooting another Sonoma County man in the chest. But his mother, Monique Sexton, believed he could avoid prison. Grayson’s father had died of cancer and a forensic psychologist diagnosed Grayson with post-traumatic stress […]