Palo Alto is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County,California,United States,in the San Francisco Bay Area,named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
Menlo Park is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County within the San Francisco Bay Area of California,United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east;East Palo Alto,Palo Alto,and Stanford to the south;and Atherton,North Fair Oaks,and Redwood City to the west. It had 33,780 residents at the 2020 United States census. It is home to the corporate headquarters of Meta,and is where Google,Roblox Corporation,and Round Table Pizza were founded. The train station holds the record as the oldest continually operating train station in California. It is one of the most educated cities in California and the United States;nearly 70% of residents over 25 have earned a bachelor's degree or higher.
East Palo Alto is a city in San Mateo County,California,United States. As of the 2020 census,the population of East Palo Alto was 30,034. It is situated on the San Francisco Peninsula,roughly halfway between the cities of San Francisco and San Jose. To the north and east is the San Francisco Bay,to the west is the city of Menlo Park,and to the south the city of Palo Alto. East Palo Alto was founded as an unincorporated community and was incorporated in July 1983. The two cities are separated only by San Francisquito Creek and,largely,the Bayshore Freeway. The revitalization projects in 2000,and high income high-tech professionals moving into new developments,including employees from Google and Facebook,have begun to slowly eliminate the historically wide cultural and economic differences between the two cities. East Palo Alto and Palo Alto share both telephone area codes and postal ZIP codes.
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County,California,United States,part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains,the population was 82,376 at the 2020 census.
El Palo Alto is a coast redwood located on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto,California,a city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The namesake of the city and a historical landmark,El Palo Alto is 1083–1084 years old and stands 110 feet (34 m) tall.
Liz Kniss is an American politician who served as Mayor of Palo Alto,California. Kniss was elected to the Palo Alto City Council in 2013. She also serves on the boards of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the Family Health Plan of Santa Clara County.
Castilleja School is an independent school for girls in grades six through twelve,located in Palo Alto,California. Castilleja is the only non-sectarian all-girls middle and high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. The faculty consists of approximately 70 full-time and part-time women and men. Castilleja is a member of the California Association of Independent Schools and the National Coalition of Girls' Schools.
Madison Nguyen is an American politician from California. She served on the San Jose City Council from 2005 to 2014,representing District 7,and she additionally served as Vice-Mayor from 2011 to 2014. She was the first Vietnamese-American elected to the city council.
The Richmond City Council is the governing body for the city of Richmond,California. The council consists of the Mayor of Richmond and six other city council members,one designated Vice Mayor. The council members are all elected from the whole city;no members are elected by district or ward. The council members are elected to four-year terms,as opposed to the previous six-year terms. They are not all elected at once. The council members meet every first and third Tuesday of the month and,if necessary,hold special meetings on the remaining Tuesdays. Presently the entire city council is Democratic.
Yiaway Yeh is former city councilmember and mayor of Palo Alto,California. He was elected to office in 2007 and was elected to mayor by the city council of Palo Alto on January 3,2012. Yeh is the second youngest mayor in Palo Alto history and the first Taiwanese American to hold the office. He was born in San Francisco,and attended JLS Middle School and Gunn High School in Palo Alto.
Elizabeth Beckman Schaaf is an American politician who served as the 50th Mayor of Oakland,California from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served on the Oakland City Council.
The 2014 San Jose mayoral election was held on June 3,2014 to elect the Mayor of San Jose,California. Councilmember Sam Liccardo defeated Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese in a runoff on November 4,2014.
Barbara Jane Halliday is the mayor of Hayward,California,elected to the office by a plurality in the June 3,2014 California primary election. Halliday was a city council member for 10 years prior to her election as mayor. She follows Michael Sweeney,who declined to seek the office in 2014. Halliday has a B.A. in American studies from Mary Washington College,then associated with the University of Virginia. She pursued graduate work in journalism and urban studies at the University of Maryland. She has worked as a writer/editor for the Cecil Whig in Maryland,and for a California insurance company,retiring from that position in 2008 after 29 years. Her term began in July 2014.
Kay Sekimachi is an American fiber artist and weaver,best known for her three-dimensional woven monofilament hangings as well as her intricate baskets and bowls.
Terry Acebo Davis is a Filipino American artist and nurse based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her art is thematically linked to her family and her origins as a Filipino American.
Marc Berman is an American lawyer and politician who has served as a member of the California State Assembly since 2016. He is a Democrat representing the 23rd Assembly District,encompassing parts of the San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley,including Campbell,Mountain View,and Saratoga. Before being elected to the Assembly,Berman was a member of the Palo Alto City Council.
Sarah Wallis,also known as Sarah Armstrong Montgomery Green Wallis (1825–1905) was an early Anglophone settler in California and first President of the California Woman Suffrage Educational Association.
The 2018 California State Senate elections were held on Tuesday,November 6,2018,with the primary election being held on June 5,2018. Voters in the 20 even-numbered districts of the California State Senate elected their representatives. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices,including for governor and the California State Assembly.
The 2014 Oakland mayoral election was held on November 4,2014 to elect the mayor of Oakland,California. It saw the election of Libby Schaaf,who unseated incumbent mayor Jean Quan.
Sheng Thao is an American politician who is the 51st and current mayor of Oakland,California. She is the first Hmong American mayor of a major city in the United States. She was elected as mayor of Oakland in November 2022 and started her term in January 2023.
