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January 29, 2014

By Elise Hu

HealthCare.gov's infamous failure to launch has inspired some fresh legislation that aims to organize and streamline the currently scattered — and expensive — approach to multimillion-dollar technology projects built by the government and its contractors.

January 29, 2014
Senate Bill 557 gives Bay Area agencies veto power over four-track alignment

By Gennady Sheyner

Legislation that makes it next to impossible for the California High-Speed Rail Authority to build a four-track rail system on the Peninsula was signed into law Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown.

January 29, 2014

By Carolyn Lochhead

Democrats in the Bay Area congressional delegation and California's House Republicans remain very reluctant to give President Obama authorization to attack Syria.

-- Rep. Jared Huffman, San Rafael: Leans no.

January 29, 2014

By Carolyn Lochhead

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is making the still-not-scheduled vote to authorize military intervention in Syria a vote of conscience for members. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, will be doing the same for Democrats.

January 29, 2014

By Gennady Sheyner

With the U.S. Congress preparing to debate a potential military strike at Syria, Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, and Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, have co-authored a letter laying out the major questions that they say must be answered before they make a decision.

January 28, 2014

By Josh Richman

Three Northern California House Democrats have signed onto a bipartisan letter urging President Obama to seek Congressional authorization for any military strike against Syria.

January 28, 2014

By Karishma Mehrotra

Thirty years ago, the land behind Mountain View's Station 1 was a basketball court for the Police Officers Association. Three years ago, it was just a blanket of tall weeds. "A forgotten land," said Mountain View firefighter-paramedic Mike Robbins.

January 28, 2014

Congresswoman speaks at citizenship ceremony, then hosting community meeting at City Hall.

By Mayra Flores de Marcotte

January 28, 2014
Democrat Anna Eshoo also told them what it was like to hug Bill Clinton and hang with Barack Obama.

By Brad Kava

When Anna Eshoo was in middle school she wanted to be an eye doctor. She didn't know why, but she liked going to the doctor and all the things they did.

But a teacher told her to forget her dream. "Girls aren't good at math," she told her.