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Palo Vol. XXXVI, Number 18 Q February 6, 2015 Alto Survey highlights Silicon Valley’s uneven prosperity Page 5 www.PaloAltoOnline.comw w w. P a l o A l t o O n l i n e. c o m More than 50 years on, a cappella thrives at Stanford PAGE 24 Pulse 15 Transitions 16 Spectrum 18 Eating Out 34 Movies 35 Puzzles 59 QSeniors Music penetrates the fog of dementia Page 20 QHome Chocolate, camellias and more at Filoli opening Page 38 QSports Stanford football signs another top class Page 61 Get Heart Happy with Us Having a healthy heart is important, but so is being heart Give a heart happy card to someone in your life that you care about: happy. In recognition of American Heart Month, Stanford 01 Fill in the blank on the card below, then cut Health Care wants to remind you to stop and cherish the card out. the special moments and important people in your life. 02 Take a selfie with the person who makes you heart happy and the card. 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Venture capi- to proclaim that this kind of growth steadily losing share in the middle. rising growth, gaping inequality tal investments spiked in 2014; the is “a thing to celebrate, surely.” “It’s as if the economy has lost its by Gennady Sheyner number of patents filed continues Yet the report also emphasizes spine, and this has important impli- to rise; median household income the region’s rising inequality, which cations for the kind of community ueled by a sizzling tech sec- dents, between its men and women and average wages both increased; pertains not just to different job sec- we become,” Hancock said. tor, strong population growth and between its white and black housing prices are on the rise; and tors but also to gender and ethnic- So what does a strong economy F and low unemployment, the residents, according to an annual the job growth rate of 4.1 percent ity. Black residents continue to lag with a fractured spine look like? Silicon Valley economy has grown report released Tuesday by the non- is the highest since 2000. These behind other ethnic groups when it According to the new report, it rapidly since the doldrums of the profit Joint Venture Silicon Valley. factors prompted Venture Silicon comes to income, and the gap be- means heaps of freshly minted but 2008 recession. So, however, have The 2015 Silicon Valley Index Valley CEO Russell Hancock to de- tween women and men also grew unevenly spread wealth. In many the income gaps between the re- presents a largely positive picture clare in his introduction to the Index in 2013. Hancock noted that even gion’s wealthiest and poorest resi- of the regional economy, with San that “the world’s hottest regional as the Valley is “proliferating high- (continued on page 10) ELECTIONS Jump in mail-in ballots caused election-count woes Evolving voter habits, outdated equipment contributed to slow counts by Sue Dremann ast November’s election- lots returned to polling stations, count troubles were mainly rather than sent through the U.S. Ldue to changing voting hab- Postal Service, grew from 30 per- its, with 50 percent of mail-in bal- cent in 2008 to 50 percent in 2014. lots returned in person at polling Simitian said he has heard anec- places on Election Day, Santa dotally that more voters wait be- Clara County Registrar of Vot- fore casting their ballots because ers Shannon Bushey said during they want to be fully informed. a special hearing by the county Bushey said that tabulating votes Finance and Government Opera- hits an inevitable bottleneck when Veronica Weber tions Committee. ballots must be physically removed Bushey delivered a report to the from envelopes and fed through committee on Jan. 28 outlining voting machines. No existing tech- the problems that occurred during nologies are capable of automating the Nov. 4 election and some po- the mail-in system, she said. That’s entertainment tential remedies. The committee, Last year’s slow returns were Mary Hill takes a close look in the dressing room mirror as she adjusts her wig before going chaired by Supervisor Joe Simi- not new. The registrar’s office fin- onstage as Bobbi Jean Piper in the performance of “Junie B. Jones” at the Palo Alto Children’s tian and vice-chaired by Supervi- ished tallying vote-by-mail ballots Theatre on Feb. 4. The musical, which is based on the children’s book series, runs through Feb. 8. sor Ken Yeager, wants to prevent by Nov. 9. The five-day time frame the same problems from marring was consistent with past elections, the June 2016 presidential pri- Bushey said. Vote-by-mail ballot homework load and the long-term mary and following November’s counting was completed in eight EDUCATION goal of collaborating to avoid giv- election, the supervisors said. days in November 2012. ing tests on the same day. Logistics, under-staffing and Provisional ballots were com- Gunn is working on extending outdated equipment also contrib- pleted in 13 days in 2014; in 2012, High schools take action to hours at its test center this semes- uted to the slow reporting, Bush- it took 15 days, she said. Provi- ter so that students can make up ey said. Rumors that the abrupt sionals require that signatures and tests before and after school, rath- resignation of a key information- addresses be cross-checked by ease student stress er than the current options of do- technology manager a day before hand for validity to ensure that the ing so during lunch or a prep pe- the election caused the slow re- person did not vote twice.
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