🌱 Norman Mineta + Roe Rage

Good morning, Redwood City-Woodside! Let's get you started this Wednesday with everything you need to know going on in Redwood City-Woodside today.

First, today's weather:

Breezy in the afternoon. High: 79 Low: 49.

Here are the top stories in Redwood City-Woodside today:

1. Redwood City wants county supervisors to set up protest buffer zone outside Planned Parenthood (East Bay Times)
2. Fires Break Out In Redwood City Home, School: None Injured (Patch)
3. Norman Mineta, transportation secretary who helped create TSA, dies at 90 (The Washington Post)
4. Leaked Roe Ruling Deeply Disrespectful To Women: Peninsula Rep. (Patch)
5. MVLA hires principals for MVHS, Alta Vista | Schools (Los Altos Town Crier)
6. Menlo Park City Council member leads in campaign contributions for District 3 Supervisor race (The Almanac Online)
7. Living in a pod? New concept in affordable shared housing emerges in Palo Alto (Palo Alto Online)
8. Triathletes return in perfect coastal conditions | Local Sports News (Half Moon Bay Review)
9. The adventure continues: Longtime toy store owner retiring; shop rebrands under new management (Los Altos Town Crier)
10. European Cobblery closes LA store, sends customers to Palo Alto location (Los Altos Town Crier)
11. Michelin-Starred Rasa To Close, Become 2nd Saffron Location (Patch)
12. Apple claims Mountain View ‘stealth mode’ startup poached engineers who took chip secrets (East Bay Times)
13. Pulmonx Reports First Quarter 2022 Financial Results (Yahoo Finance)
14. Palo Alto 5th Grader Builds Little Free Library, Writes Picture Book (Patch)

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Today in Redwood City-Woodside:

• Burlesque on Broadway! (7:30 PM)
• AP English Literature - Woodside High Performing Arts Center (7:30 AM)
• AP Computer Science A - Woodside High Performing Arts Center (12:30 PM)
• Dance Team Auditions (Tryout Clinic) (3:30 PM)
• ELAC Meeting & Dinner - Carlmont High (6:00 PM)
• Democracy in America: Busy Being Born, or Busy Dying? with Marshall Ganz (7:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• Nextdoor Neighbor, West Roosevelt: "We're getting our first backyard chickens next week. - We have a coop, 17 foot run, and a "free range" area that about 16x6. Everything is covered except the free range area. We plan to mostly only have the chickens in that area when we ..." (Nextdoor)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Bair Island: "@RedwoodCity you had a floating community... - but you wanted to destroy it can continue to do so.... so sad! https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/37427/20220502/un-backed-floating-city-soon-rise-south-korea-2025-help.htm" (Nextdoor)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Woodside: "Lost orange cycling vest - Lost: orange cycling vest. I lost a cycling vest on Canada road, very close to the Canada/84 intersection in Woodside town. It's an orange, sleeveless cycling vest. Brand: Pactimo (size small). Lost on Saturday..." (Nextdoor)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Woodside: "FOR LEASE- 3 BEDROOM/3 BATH HOME IN THE WILLOWS (MENLO PARK) - $8,500/month Beautiful light-filled Tahoe-style unfurnished home on tree lined street in the charming Willows neighborhood of Menlo Park. This two-story, three bedroom, thre..." (Nextdoor)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Stafford Park: "Our washing machine just broke and it's gonna be a couple of weeks before we replace it. - I went to the laundromat in San Carlos today--$6.00 for a normal load (just for the washer, I didn't use a dryer). I have been spoiled for decades..." (Nextdoor)
• County Executive's Office Christa Bigue, County of San Mateo: "May is Mental Health Month! - This year’s theme, adopted from the statewide campaign, is #SMCTakeAction4MH. The theme encourages everyone to take actionable steps to address mental health and substance use matters. Over the past two ye..." (Nextdoor)

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• Hire A Pro To Tackle Mom's To-Do List (May 8)
• Sustainable San Mateo County's 23rd Annual Awards Celebration (May 11)
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Thanks for following along and staying informed. See you all tomorrow morning for another update!

— Michael Wittner

About me: I am excited to be returning to Patch as a Roving Editor, a job that will allow me to find out what's going on in communities all over the country. I worked as a Patch Field Editor from April 2020 to June 2021, covering Agoura Hills, Beverly Hills, Calabasas, Malibu, and Northridge-Chatsworth. Before then I was the Associate Editor of the Jewish Journal, a biweekly paper covering the Jewish community north of Boston. I grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a small, seaside town north of Boston, and graduated from Bard College in New York, and then got my masters in teaching from New York University. Feel free to send any story ideas to michael.wittner@patch.com.

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