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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
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State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) announced today his selection of Kepler’s Books and Magazines as the 11th Senate District’s Small Business of the Year. This is the second time Simitian has given the award to Kepler’s.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) was recently honored by a breast cancer advocacy group for championing legislation to improve breast cancer detection in women with dense breast tissue.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), who is leaving office at the end of November due to term limits, will hold a telephone town hall and “exit interview” this Sunday from 11 a.m. to noon.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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On Saturday, State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) and Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) will jointly host an Education Update to discuss school funding,
K-12 legislation, and the status of the California education system. The update, which is open to the public, will be held from 10 a.m. until noon at the Palo Alto Unified School District board room.
Friday, November 09, 2012
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Simitian was recognized for his work championing the cause of early childhood education with the Early Learning Lifetime Achievement Award by the nonprofit advocacy group Preschool California.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
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Police forces and private companies are scanning auto license plates and building huge databases of location information--whether or not the owners of the cars have done anything wrong. WSJ's Julia Angwin reports.
Monday, September 24, 2012
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Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill by Sen. Joe Simitian requiring extra warnings for the 40 percent of women over the age of 40 who have breast tissue dense enough to mask cancers on mammograms.
Last year, Brown had vetoed a similar bill, expressing doubts about whether the warnings were what he termed "a path to greater knowledge or unnecessary anxiety." Since then Simitian amended the bill to make it acceptable to the governor.
"I'm tremendously thankful for the governor's support of this measure and for his willingness to listen to and work with us on this issue over the past year," Simitian, D-Palo Alto, said in a statement.
Monday, September 17, 2012
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In the latest shot against what many say are the abuses of red light traffic cameras, a state senator's bill to clamp down on how the devices are used has landed on the governor's desk for approval.
The bill by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, would prohibit cities or counties from using the cameras purely to raise cash, make it easier to get wrongfully issued tickets dismissed and forbid the creation of so-called "snitch" tickets that threaten drivers with penalties based on sketchy information.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
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In an editorial, the San Francisco Chronicle said:
California's new "transitional kindergarten" program, which is proving highly popular with parents and educators, almost did not happen. Gov. Jerry Brown's 2012-13 budget would have diverted the $223 million to other programs. Fortunately, legislators stood their ground, and the state is moving forward with plans to gradually shift the cutoff date for kindergarten from December to Sept. 1.