Politics

Take a look at California’s wild political history on September 2

Just in time for another anniversary of California statehood—and another unusual election season—the Menlo Park Library will take a look at our state’s rich and

How to be politically civil to each other is topic on June 10

How can deliberative democracy survive if we can't even speak to people with whom we disagree? By and large, public opinion is sticky and change

Newest Menlo Park City Council member Jen Wolosin sworn in last night

The newest member of the Menlo Park City Council representing District Three, Jen Wolosin was sworn in last night. Absence the usual pomp, the ceremony

Campaigning During Coronavirus is topic discussed by Carol Mayer Marshall on September 1

How difficult is it to construct an effective campaign effort, in a world where we are unable to knock on doors, or to meet voters

Spotted: Signs-of-the-Times: NOPE

Spotted: Signs-of-the-times: Trump will destroy our country

InMenlo contributing photographer Irene Searles spotted this handrail with a post-it note at a Stanford parking lot.

Peninsula women organize Home Political Salon Series focusing on House and Senate races

A number of women on the mid-Peninsula, including Atherton resident Laura Lauder and Menlo-Atherton High School alumna Cathy Hewitt Podell,  are organizing @Home Political Salon Series

Protesters again gather at Facebook to urge fact checking of political ads

Facebook users, investors, and neighbors gathered outside the Menlo Park-based company headquarters late yesterday afternoon demonstraitng against the company’s refusal to fact-check political ads run

“Voting in the Primaries: What you need to know” is topic on Jan. 18

The Presidential Primary Election is March 3. Get election information, including how procedures in San Mateo County have changed since the last Presidential election on Saturday,

Spotted: Raging Grannies and Trump balloon near Zott’s

Somewhere between 50 and 100 people showed up near the Alpine Inn in Portola Valley yesterday to protest President Donald Trump's appearance at a fundraising