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San Mateo County Supervisors on Tuesday may get behind a bill to put a measure on the November ballot to raise the county’s sales tax by a half-cent. Supervisor Jackie Speier and County Executive Mike Callagy’s offices have been working with Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, to get San Mateo County included in a bill that would
Would go on November ballot allow for cities and counties in the state to go over the 9.25% sales tax cap. The sales tax increase would bring the tax rate above 10% in most San Mateo County cities, including Belmont, East Palo Alto and Redwood City. The lowest tax rate would be 9.875% in cities such as San Carlos, Atherton
and Menlo Park. The county already has a half-cent sales tax, Measure K, passed in 2016. That tax, which brought in nearly $115 million last fiscal year, ends in 2043. The tax was sold to voters to fund housing and emergency services. Beginning July 1, the board will drop the Measure K fund they’ve used
FINISHING THE JOB: President Trump said yesterday that U.S. forces will “finish the job” in Iran soon as “core strategic objectives are nearing completion,” offering a defense of the war in his first address since the conflict began over a month ago. MOST OIL: President Trump stressed during his address yesterday that the U.S. has plenty of its own fuel stores because of his attitude on domestic oil production, Trump said that the country produces more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Last year, the U.S. pumped over 13 million barels a day, while Russia and Saudi Arabia produced over 9.5 million a day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP: President Trump made an unprecedented apperance during the Supreme Court’s hearing on his restrictions on birthright citizenship. Conservative and liberal justices questioned whether Trump’s order comports with the Constitution or federal law. Trump spent just over [See THE UPDATE, page 4]
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Four astronauts have embarked on the first lunar voyage in over half a century. It’s the leadoff in NASA’s push toward a lunar landing in two years. The 32-story moon rocket blasted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center yesterday, carrying three Americans and one Canadian. The Artemis II crew will spend their nearly 10-day mission flying around the moon and coming home. AP photo.
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Stanford Coin Wash owner Tony Lee says the new bike lanes on El Camino Real in Palo Alto have caused his revenue to fall 25% because customers no longer have convenient parking to bring in their laundry. “It’s becoming difficult week to week,” Lee said in an interview on Monday. Lee is trying to get Caltrans to allow for some short-term street parking again. His petition has gathered 201 signatures, and he’s going to Palo Alto City Council for help. “The best I can do at this point is to make people aware of this problem that we have,” he [See BIKE, page 23]
Man to get six years for fatal punch Logan Winterton, 40, of San Francisco, wanted to take responA member of the Hells An- sibility for the punch that he’ll gels Motorcycle Club who fatal- regret for the rest of his life, his ly punched a man at Shoreline attorney said in an interview. Winterton admitted on March Amphitheatre in Mountain View 25 to assault and involuntary manwill go to prison for six years. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
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on things like meditations in nature and videotaping the local ballet. County officials have been trying to balance the county’s budget due to the state planning to reduce $125 million in funding to the county from the car tax adjustment. A memo from the county’s Chief Legislative Officer Connie Juarez-Diroll says impacts of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” [See TAX, page 22]
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