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BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
Daily Post Staff Writer
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 fees.
The county settled a lawsuit from the employees rather than going to a ...
Santa Clara County property owners have approved a $15.75 annual fee to fund a special district that controls mosquitoes and other disease-causing pests.
The ballots were mailed to voters in mid-March. They were due back with a “yes” or “no” vote by May 19.
In the all-mail election, only 22.7% of property owners returned ballots to be counted, according to...
Early returns tonight indicate that the Palo Alto school district’s parcel tax will fail. A parcel tax needs two-thirds of the vote for approval. The initial vote for Measure B is:
Yes 5,943 — 60.73%
No 3,843 — 39.27%
The tax would have cost $800 a year and raise $14.5 million. However, opponents — including former school board members Todd Colli...
San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa has opened up an 8-percentage point lead in the race for Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder against the second-in-charge in that office, Jim Irizarry.
In the first batch of votes,
Canepa 31,152 — 54.21%
Irizarry 26,316 — 45.79%
While the other members of the board of supervisors supported Irizarry, C...
Second-grade school teacher Chelsea Bonini has a 410-vote lead over county board of education executive director Hector Camacho, according to early returns.
So far, the results show
Bonini 28,151 — 50.37%
Camacho 27,741 — 49.63%
Bonini ran despite lacking the correct credential for the position, as required by state law. When she signed...