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Today's riddle: What do you call a paper airplane that can't fly? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Board Directs County Health to Develop Plan for Commercial Insurance, Local Lab Services on the Coast (smcgov.org) — San Mateo County supervisors have ordered a detailed plan to let Half Moon Bay's Coastside Health Center accept commercial insurance and add a local lab collection option, potentially saving residents long trips for basic tests. The roadmap must protect services for Medi-Cal, Medicare and uninsured patients while identifying at least one near-term lab solution open to all Coastside residents.
2. San Mateo, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties are state's priciest housing markets, but not its least affordable (paloaltoonline.com) — San Mateo County homebuyers now need about $578,400 in annual income to afford a median-priced $2.27 million house, underscoring how extreme local housing costs have become. While only 19% of households can buy at that price, the county still mirrors California's broader affordability crunch, where high prices and rising mortgage rates continue to squeeze would-be owners.
3. Election results 2026: South Bay voters supportive of school tax measures in early vote returns (mercurynews.com) — Peninsula voters appear receptive to new school funding, with early results showing strong support for San Mateo County Community College District's $848 million Measure V bond, which would upgrade roofs, pipes and classroom technology without raising current tax rates. The measure, alongside two Alum Rock taxes and a Gilroy bond, reflects districts' efforts to address aging facilities and budget pressures.
4. Portola Valley Measure N looks headed for approval (almanacnews.com) — Portola Valley's Measure N, which would make the town a charter city and add a real property transfer tax, is leading with about 64% of the vote. If it passes, the new revenue would help close a growing deficit and fund storm drains, vegetation management, wildfire prevention and continued policing from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.
5. TSV call: Guingona wins Area 2; Measure V ahead (theskylineview.com) — San Mateo County voters appear to be keeping Mike Guingona on the Community College District board, with early returns showing him well ahead of challenger Jason Holt. Measure V, which would extend a property tax and authorize $848 million in bonds for the district, is also comfortably above the 55% threshold, shaping the future of local college funding and facilities.
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