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Join us to say NO TO FLOCK cameras in Milpitas

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Written by: Karen Friedman on behalf of We ARE the People  Milpitas PD uses Flock Safety cameras (Automatic License Plate Recognition or ALPR) for criminal...
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The Milpitas Beat hereby prohibits the use of AI writing

Eric Shapiro -
For a while, we thought the following would go without saying, but alas the day has come when we have to say it: The Milpitas...
Opinion

The climate solution we’re overlooking starts at home

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Written by: Ethan Pham What if we can fight climate change not by waiting for new inventions, but by building affordable homes near public transit?...
Opinion

Authoritarian language wants to keep us indifferent

Eric Shapiro -
One way the authoritarians win is by muting your feelings. One winter wave of ICE killing innocent Americans, you might feel raw, potent outrage. A...
Opinion

Feeding Milpitas shouldn’t cost market rate

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Written By: The Board of the Milpitas nonprofit “Hope for the Unhoused”, Inc In a city defined by massive tech corridors, bustling retail centers,...
Opinion

Milpitas City Council vote will raise rents and housing costs

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Opinion Written by: Joseph Weinstein  Late this past Tuesday night, I received an outraged call from a friend whose kids cannot afford to buy a...
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I asked AI to explain “The Godfather: Part II” to me. It couldn’t.

Eric Shapiro -
I don’t always watch movies lately. I think people think I’m always on it, but the ritual ebbs and flows. I’ll watch five movies...
Blog

MUSD Career Fair links job seekers with regional opportunities

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The 2026 Milpitas Unified School District Spring Career Fair, in partnership with Milpitas Economic Development, connected hundreds of potential job candidates with key local...
Opinion

The ballad of Alex Pretti

Eric Shapiro -
Of all things, as I beg your patience, I am going to preface my remarks about Alex Pretti with a memory about my mother. We...
Opinion

Milpitas is paying the price while billionaires don’t

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Written by: Seema Kanani There’s a simple truth most people agree on: when times get tough, everyone should do their fair share.  In Milpitas, we’re living...
Opinion

Is It Fascism Yet?

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Written by: Robert Means From the start of the Trump administration’s term, experts have warned that we are on the road to fascism. Fascism isn't...
Opinion

Don’t get tyrannized by all the little details

Eric Shapiro -
Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother of three from Minneapolis, was fatally shot yesterday while behind the wheel of her car attempting...
Opinion

Living in the aftershock

Eric Shapiro -
Culturally and historically, the only precedent I can think of for the brutal murders of filmmaker-actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Reiner this...
Opinion

A Muslim American woman’s reflection on 9/11 & patriotism

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As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches, I feel a deep sense of responsibility to reflect on what loyalty to our nation truly means. For...
Opinion

Milpitas homeowners can comply with water heater rule without getting sunk by costs

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A new rule established by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) back in March, 2023 might make Milpitas homeowners take another look...
Opinion

Trump’s grand, disturbing spectacle

Eric Shapiro -
He’s doing it. Donald Trump is doing it. He is deploying 1,700 National Guard members to 19 states, largely Republican-led, so as to free up...
Opinion

What ChatGPT told me about Trump’s tariffs…

Eric Shapiro -
I was talking to my good friend ChatGPT when I decided to ask it about Trump’s tariffs… It was resolute in its position that the...
Opinion

A note on the inarguable importance of Free Speech in America

Eric Shapiro -
The Milpitas Beat’s editorial staff wishes to sound a note of alarm around the recent arrest and detainment of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish doctoral...
Opinion

We were eating dinner at Milpitas’ Great Mall when hundreds of people started running…

Eric Shapiro -
I was in one world before everybody started running, and in another world one second later… In the first world, over the course of some...
Opinion

The Milpitas City Council’s fiscal mismanagement is hurting our residents

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The Milpitas City Council’s primary responsibility is to set policy, ensure the policies are followed, and to implement the will of the people they...
Opinion

Why don’t City Managers ever last at Milpitas City Hall?

Eric Shapiro -
What’s going on at Milpitas City Hall? There’s so much we can’t know. Indeed, we can’t know anything. Most of us don’t work there. What...
Opinion

It’s Trump’s world, we’re just living in it

Eric Shapiro -
He’s only been president for two weeks now, and already multiple people have said to me, “It’s already so terrible. How are we gonna...
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