…rope while observing an elephant seal. (Photo by Larry Sokoloff) On a late January visit, the park’s daily elephant seal census listed 155 males in residence. They were vastly outnumbered…
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Spanish the most common language in region after English
…part of Mexico, although historians point to more modern forces such as immigration and family settlement patterns being influential as well. Source: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, Table S1601…
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Survey reveals abortion is most important issue for young women as Election Day nears
…more enthusiastic.” Ashley Kirzinger, director of survey methodology at KFF More than half of U.S. voters have been women in the last two national elections, according to the Census Bureau….
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Farmworkers struggle with high cost of housing
…at the seams. A rough estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau puts 156,000 people living within its perimeter; unofficial guesses by housing and farmworker advocates put it around 180,000. The…
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Volunteers sought for Santa Clara County PIT count of people experiencing homelessness
…snapshot census of people experiencing homelessness in Santa Clara County during a designated 24-hour period. Volunteers will conduct a brief 5-10-minute survey of people experiencing homelessness that will ask for…
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Colossal discovery: Scientists film elusive deep-sea squid alive for the first time
…of the colossal squid was a collaboration between Schmidt Ocean Institute, the Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census, and GoSouth, a joint project between the University of Plymouth, in the U.K., GEOMAR…
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San Mateo County sees improved COVID-19 numbers, increased testing turnout
…state’s new health equity metric, which accounts for test positivity rates in census tracts in the lowest quartile of the state’s Healthy Places Index (HPI). The goal of the new…
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Newsom, AAPI community leaders in SF condemn spike in anti-Asian hate crimes
…Pacific Islander descent, according to 2018 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. “The idea that we are, today in 2021, still having conversations we were having in 1881, a year…
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San Francisco receives first round of COVID-19 vaccine amid unprecedented surge
…said. “If the hospital census keeps rising at the current rate, San Francisco will run out of intensive care unit beds within the next three to four weeks, as the…
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Prop. 50 wins big: California voters pass new U.S. House map to boost Democrats in 2026
…more in Ohio. Congressional district boundaries are typically redrawn every 10 years to reflect population shifts documented in the census. Mid-decade redistricting is unusual, absent a court order finding fault…