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PIA Newsletter December 2009
PIA Newsletter December 2008
PIA Newsletter May 2008
PIA Newsletter December 2007
PIA Newsletter May 2007


Community Development Back to top

The heroes luncheon
The Palo Alto Weekly, 04/28/06

Local clergy lobby for New Orleans
San Mateo County Times, 03/23/06

Praying for food
Palo Alto Weekly, 03/16/05

Vigil: East Palo Alto residents pray for a supermarket - Page 1
Vigil: East Palo Alto residents pray for a supermarket - Page 2
San Jose Mercury News, 03/14/05


Education / Youth Back to top

City urged to use church for teen center
Mountain View Voice, 07/28/09

Teens step up call for youth center
Mountain View Voice, 07/28/09

Teens get activities
Mountain View Voice, 02/06/09

Let teens use senior center
Mountain View Voice, 01/30/09

East Palo Alto youth plea for safer sidewalk
Palo Alto Daily, 07/10/08

City tours teen centers
Mountain View Voice, 06/26/08

Youth urge city to build teen center
Valley Catholic, 06/24/08

Mountain View teen center
Mountain View Voice, 05/22/08

Heightened call for a teen center
Mountain View Voice, 03/07/08

Measure C committee in East Palo Alto
San Mateo County Times, 02/21/08

Youth services climbs rec list
Mountain View Voice, 10/02/07

Local teens want a center of their own
Mountain View Voice, 05/18/07

Slater School to close in June 2006, Board ditches proposal to close Castro
Mountain View Voice, 03/23/05

Mtn. View district to shut Slater School (Castro School saved)
San Jose Mercury News, 03/23/05

Speakers object to school closing; 200 jam auditorium
San Jose Mercury News, 03/11/05


Fiscal Reform Back to top

County adopts budget with extra 1.4M
The Daily Journal, 06/29/06

County approves 1.59 billion budget
The Daily News, 06/29/06


Health Care Back to top

Hundreds cheer health care effort
Redwood City Daily News, 06/19/07

Hospital gets $7M state grant
Redwood City Daily News, 03/31/07

Faith-based groups want children's health care funded
San Jose Mercury News, 03/09/07

Workers cobble together health care
The Daily Journal, 10/20/06

Countywide universal health care study OK'd
The Examiner, 07/02/06

Leaders win health commitment
East Palo Alto Today, May/June 06

Hundreds call for new deal in health care
The Daily Journal, 05/17/06

Faith leaders lobby for adult health insurance
San Mateo County Times, 05/18/06

County called on for health care
Redwood City Daily News & Examiner, 05/17/06

Cigarette tax gets closer to ballot
The Daily News, 04/09/06

Faith groups head to D.C. to lobby for children's health care - Page 1
Faith groups head to D.C. to lobby for children's health care - Page 2
San Mateo County Times, 05/19/05

Thousands rally at capitol for health
The Stockton Record, 04/14/05

Locals advocates rally for Healthy Kids
San Mateo County Times, 04/14/05


Housing Back to top

Belmont signs on to HEART project
San Mateo Daily News 08/14/08

East Palo Alto rent freeze
San Mateo County Times 02/26/08

New Pacifica affordability ordinance
Pacifica Tribune, 04/11/07

County looking to Sacramento for housing aid
San Mateo County Times, 02/08/07

Housing for homeless
December 2006

Progress in Pacifica
St. Peter Church, 2006

Fostering housing in Foster City
Peninsula Sinai Congregation, 2006

San Mateo County HEART for affordable housing
December, 2005

Housing a hot campaign issue
The San Mateo Daily News, 10/31/05

Foster City candidates debate affordable housing
The Examiner Independent, 10/31/05

Mediation effort fails on close vote / Why is mediation a bad word?
Mountain View Voice, 03/16/05

Housing and good gov't
Congregational Church of San Mateo, 06/09/04

10,000 units in 10 years
February, 2000


Immigration Back to top

Workshop to help prospective citizens
San Mateo Daily News, 02/23/09

Promueven ciudadanía
El Heraldo Católico, March 08

Workshop helps prospective citizens
San Mateo Daily News, 02/23/08

Casiano-Miranda contemplates deportation
Mountain View Voice, 01/03/08

PIA supports youth leader arrested by ICE
Valley Catholic, 11/13/07

Church rallies for leader snared in ICE raid
Mountain View Voice, 10/18/07

Gung-ho raids cast too wide a net
San Jose Mercury News, 10/17/07

Church protests ICE arrest
Palo Alto Daily News, 10/16/07

Residentes piden dignidad para sus familias
El Heraldo Católico, September 07

Sheriff Munks agrees to protect immigrants
The Daily Journal, 07/23/07

Sheriff will not aid ICE
San Mateo County Times, 07/22/07

PIA leaders call on congress
Líderes de PIA piden al congreso
East Palo Alto Today, June 07

Group is ice cold toward ICE raids
San Mateo County Times, 05/01/07

No 'politics of fear' in S.J.
San Jose Mercury News, 04/07/07

Religious leaders oppose raids
San Mateo County Times, 04/01/07

Palo Alto family caught in deportation strife
Palo Alto Weekly, 03/30/07

Interpreters: state HMOs set to provide language assistance
Redwood City Daily News & Examiner, 05/17/06


Public Safety Back to top

Church rally draws hundreds
San Mateo County Times, 06/30/06

Hundreds rally in East P.A. to put anti-crime parcel tax on ballot
San Jose Mercury News, 06/30/06

'All the killings...we're going to stop'
San Mateo County Times, 06/06/06