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25 lbs of illegal fireworks and an unregistered handgun in Vazquez Madriz’s room, which he shared with his son, Wagstaffe said.
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Up until this week, Wall Street has generally benefited from the Trump administration’s policies and has been supportive of the president. That relationship has suddenly soured. When President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law in July, it pushed another significant round of tax cuts and also cut the budget of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at times the banking industry’s nemesis, by nearly half. Trump’s bank regulators have also been pushing a deregulatory agenda that both banks and large corporations have embraced. But now the president has proposed a one-year, 10% cap on the interest rate on credit cards, a lucrative business for many financial institutions, and his Department of Justice has launched an investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that many say threatens the institution that is supposed to set interest rates free of political interference.
Economic warning Bank CEOs warned the White House yesterday that Trump’s actions will do more harm than good to the American economy. But in response, Trump did not back down on his proposals or attacks on the Fed. BNY Chief Executive Officer Robin Vince told reporters that going after the Fed’s independence “doesn’t seem, to us, to be accomplishing the administration’s primary objectives for things like affordability, reducing the cost of borrowing, reducing the cost of mortgages, reducing the cost of everyday living for Americans.” “Let’s not shake the foundation of the bond market and potentially do some-
thing that could cause interest rates to actually get pushed up, because somehow there’s lack of confidence in the Fed’s independence,” Vince added. The Federal Reserve’s independence is sacrosanct among the big banks. While banks may have wanted Powell and other Fed policymakers to move interest rates one way or another more quickly, they have generally understood why Powell has done what he’s done. “I don’t agree with everything the Fed has done. I do have enormous respect for Jay Powell, the man,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told reporters yesterday.
Trump holds firm Dimon’s message did not seem to resonate with President Trump, who told journalists that Dimon is wrong in saying it’s not a great idea to chip away at the Federal Reserve’s independence by going after Chair Jerome Powell. “Yeah, I think it’s fine what I’m doing,” Trump said yesterday in response to a reporter’s question at Joint Base Andrews after returning from a day trip to Michigan. He called Powell “a bad Fed person” who has “done a bad job.” With “affordability” likely to be a key issue in this year’s midterm elections, Trump also wants a 10% cap on credit card interest rates in place by Jan. 20. Whether he hopes to accomplish this by bullying the credit card industry into capping interest rates voluntarily, or through some sort of executive action, is unclear. In a call with reporters, JPMorgan CFO Jeffrey Barnum indicated the industry was willing to fight with all resources at its disposal to stop the cap.
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Area doctor faces extradition effort
Louisiana pushed yesterday to extradite a Bay Area doctor accused of mailing abortion pills, setting up a likely test of laws designed to protect telehealth providers who ship abortion pills nationwide. This is the second time Louisiana has pursued an out-of-state doctor under its abortion restrictions, with Republican Gov. Jeff Landry saying on social media that he wants to bring the abortion provider “to justice.” The two criminal cases pit Louisiana, which has some of the strictest abortion laws in the country, against jurisdictions that have enacted what are known as shield laws for providers who facilitate abortions from afar in states with bans. “Louisiana has a zero tolerance policy for those who subvert our laws, seek
to hurt women and promote abortion,” Landry said in a post X announcing he’d sent the extradition paperwork. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment
A man accused of stealing copper from beneath Caltrain train tracks in South San Francisco pleaded innocent, a prosecutor said yesterday. Diego Palomares Sanchez, 24, was arrested Sunday after deputies with the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office saw him allegedly cutting and removing copper wire from the Caltrain train tracks between the South San Francisco and Brisbane stations around 3:30 a.m. that morning.
The Sheriff’s Office previously said that he took 50 feet of copper wire. The cost to repair the damage will be $5,000, prosecutors said. He was arrested and charged with felony petty theft with two prior convictions, and trespassing on state property. He was appointed a private defender and pleaded innocent to both charges. At the time of the alleged copper wire theft, Palomares Sanchez was also on probation for a prior grand theft offense in which he stole thousands of dollars’ worth of construction tools in San Mateo. The case will return to court on Jan. 22. Palomares Sanchez remains in custody and his bail was set at $10,000.
Potential 50-year sentence Physician Remy Coeytaux faces a criminal charge of abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced yesterday. If convicted, the doctor could face up to 50 years in jail and fines, Murrill said. According to court documents, he is accused of mailing mifepristone and misoprostol in 2023 to a Louisiana woman who sought the medication through Aid Access, a European online telemedicine service.
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Train track damage Palomares Sanchez allegedly stole about 20 feet of copper wire valued at $903, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
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A Menlo Park resident was on his way to work when a truck rammed into his yard, he told the Daily Post. The truck’s driver had a medical emergency and drove into the fences of three homes, stopping at 125 Oak Court at 10:25 a.m. on Monday. The owner of that house, Matt Burr, is the neighborhood pizza guy. He sells pizzas at Cafe Zoe at 1929 Menalto Ave. “I opened the front door to a big white truck coming to a stop in my front yard,” Burr said. Loss of consciousness The driver, 75, had started driving his truck down the street, but lost consciousness at a stop sign, said Menlo Park Fire District Fire Marshal Gage Schlice. A city inspector was around the block at the time of the accident and was one of the first responders, according to Burr. One of his neighbors called the police, and medics arrived shortly, Burr said. The truck, a Dodge Ram 2500, destroyed the front side of his fence, his barbecue grill and a few smaller items in his yard, Burr said. The truck also knocked down a post that supports the roof on the front porch of another home, Schlice said. He said firefighters replaced the post as a temporary solution. One of his other neighbors, who was affected and is a customer of his, said he was thankful his dog was inside and not in the yard, Burr said.
CRASH AFTERMATH — A truck is seen after it crashed through the fences of three homes on Monday. Photo by Matt Burr.
Burr took the day off today to decompress and clean up after the incident, he said. “It was a lot of confusion and trying to assess what was going on. Was he having a medical emergency? Was he having a heart attack? Had he died?” Burr said.
The driver was conscious enough to turn off his truck by the time medics arrived, according to Burr. There also was a passenger in the car, said Menlo Park police spokeswoman Nicole Acker, but no one was injured.
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Ex-fire chief sues city for back pay BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
He was one of the highest-paid city employees and made $395,370 last year, pay records show.
Former Palo Alto Fire Chief Geo Blackshire is suing the city for allegedConversations with city ly withholding wages Blackshire allegedly approached from him for years, acthe city numerous times since 2023 to cording to a lawsuit filed express his concerns about the EMT in the Santa Clara Counpremium, including talking to Manager ty Superior Court. of Employee and Labor Relations Tori During his tenure as Anthony and HR representative Sandra chief, Blackshire was supposed to have re- BLACKSHIRE Blanch. Blanch claimed that Blackshire’s ceived a 3% wage premium for his Emergency Medical Technician cer- salary did encompass the EMT pay, tification, the lawsuit, filed on Jan. 7, “despite the complete absence of any states. The premium requirements are EMT payment on his wage statement or outlined in a city compensation plan for payroll records maintained by the City throughout his tenure as Fire Chief,” EMT-certified employees. the lawsuit states. The lawsuit also calls the city’s exPay history Blackshire, who has had his certi- planations for not including the pay fication since 1997, was paid the pre- “inconsistent” with “each excuse conmium during his time as Deputy Fire tradicting the last, revealing a pattern Chief, according to the suit. But in July of evasion.” 2019, when Blackshire was promoted, Damages sought the city stopped paying the premium. The former chief is seeking damag“That omission persisted for years, through multiple compensation plan es for failure to pay wages, inaccurate cycles and payroll periods, without dis- wage statements and failure to produce closure or correction,” according to the employment records in a timely manlawsuit, filed by attorneys Jamon Hicks ner. The lawsuit does not list how much Blackshire is seeking from the city. and Rebecca Brown. The city did not respond to the Post’s Blackshire retired on Oct. 31 after nearly three decades in the department. inquiry about the lawsuit.
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Federal regulators yesterday told drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to remove label warnings about potential suicidal thoughts and behaviors from their blockbuster weight-loss medications. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said a comprehensive review “found no increased” risk related to suicide among users of the GLP-1 drugs for obesity, including Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Saxenda and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound. A preliminary review in January 2024 showed no link between the drugs
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PALO ALTO JAN. 6 10:59 a.m. — Vehicle accident causes injuries, Lytton Ave. and Cowper St. JAN. 7 7:01 a.m. — Grand theft, 300 block of Lincoln Ave. THURSDAY 11:43 a.m. — Vehicle accident causes injuries, 100 block of El Camino. 3:08 p.m. — Juan Sebastian Castro Grimaldos, 24, of San Jose, and Wendy Paola Leon Ortiz, 25, of San Jose, both arrested for shoplifting and resisting police. Castro Grimaldos is also arrested for narcotics possession. 4:13 p.m. — Hate crime, 1200 block of Harriet St. 4:44 p.m. — Theft, 1300 block of Alma St. 6:23 p.m. — Steve Mark Bucao Andaya, 36, of Palo Alto, arrested on warrants, Town & Country Village. 9:42 p.m. — Vandalism, 100 block of Lytton Ave. 9:52 p.m. — Dante Alberto Amaro Hernandez, 34, of Morgan Hill, arrested on a warrant, El Camino and W. Charleston Road.
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FRIDAY 2:48 a.m. — Rajan Manwani, 39, of Gas City, Ind., arrested for burglary at Walgreens, 4170 El Camino. 11:40 a.m. — Identity theft, Town & Country Village. 12:40 p.m. — Vehicle accident causes injuries, Alma St. and Seale Ave. 1:57 p.m. — Grand theft, 300 block of Ventura Ave.
THURSDAY 8:31 a.m. — Motorist drives away from a gas station with the pump still attached and is stopped by bystanders, 200 block of Cuesta Drive. However, when an employee tries to get the driver’s information for damage purposes, the driver runs to his vehicle and drives away.
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MENLO PARK SUNDAY 12:09 a.m. — Solo vehicle collision, Marsh Road and Constitution Drive. No injuries reported. 7:59 a.m. — Theft from an unlocked vehicle 400 block of Laurel St. 9:23 a.m. — Vehicle tampering, 700 block of Hamilton Ave. 12:43 p.m. — Edelmira Cortes, 41, transient, arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and theft of someone else’s lost property, 500 block of El Camino.
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and have it towed. No injuries are reported. THURSDAY Time not given — Jewelry box stolen from a resident’s apartment, 600 block of Elm St. 5:40 p.m. — Two men get into an argument in a parking lot and one man tells police the other man grabbed him by his neck and pushed him, 1100 block of Old County Road.
BELMONT SATURDAY 3:48 p.m. — Man steals groceries from a store, El Camino. 11:01 p.m. — Woman says her brother hit her, Shoreway Road. SUNDAY 8:48 a.m. — Karina Rose Baquero, 26, cited for shoplifting, 110 block of El Camino. 9:19 a.m. — Burglary, Academy Ave. Jewelry stolen.
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The collapse of ‘Dilbert’ empire It all collapsed quickly in 2023 when Adams, Shifting the power who was white, repeatedly referred to Black people “Throughout history, there have always been times as members of a “hate group” and said he would no when it’s very clear that the managers have all the longer “help Black Americans.” He later said he was power and the workers have none,” Adams told Time. being hyperbolic, yet continued to defend his stance. “Through ‘Dilbert,’ I would think the balance of powAlmost immediately, newspapers dropped “Dil- er has slightly changed.” bert” and his distributor, Andrews McMeel Universal, Other strip characters included Dilbert’s pointysevered ties with the cartoonist. The Sun Chronicle in haired boss; Asok, a young, naive intern; Wally, a midAttleboro, Mass., decided to keep the “Dilbert” space dle-aged slacker; and Alice, a worker so frustrated that blank for a while “as a reminder of the racism that she was prone to frequent outbursts of rage. Then there pervades our society.” A planned book was scrapped. was Dilbert’s pet, Dogbert, a megalomaniac. Adams relaunched the same daily comic strip under “There’s a certain amount of anger you need to the name Dilbert Reborn via the video platform Rum- draw ‘Dilbert’ comics,” Adams told the Contra Costa ble, popular with conservatives and far-right groups. Times in 2009. He also hosted a podcast, “Real Coffee,” where talk“Dilbert” was also known for generating aphoed about various political and social issues. risms, like “All rumors are true — especially if your After Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show on ABC boss denies them” and “OK, let’s get this preliminary was suspended in September in the wake of the host’s pre-meeting going.”
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