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Developer 8228 Associates filed plans for a 16-story residential tower with 115 homes and 18 affordable units at 8240 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, while Logistics Property Company closed on a 74-acre site at 23960 South Houbolt Road in Joliet, Illinois, to build a 1,279,700-square-foot warehouse with 229 dock doors.
Early Santa Clara County returns show San Jose Councilmembers Peter Ortiz leading District 5 with 56.8% and Bien Doan leading District 7 with 62.8%, while Karen Hardy leads the Santa Clara mayoral contest with 23.8% and Morgan Hill Mayor Mark Turner wins reelection with 50.2%.
San Jose Councilmembers Peter Ortiz (56.8%, 4,645 to 3,532) and Bien Doan (62.8%, 5,316 to 3,145) and District 9 newcomer Genny Altwer (53.6%, 7,104 to 6,133) led Tuesday’s returns while Santa Clara Councilmember Karen Hardy led the 6-way mayoral race with 23.8% (2,919 votes; 2,947 in later returns) over Kathy Watanabe (21.5%, 2,634; 2,648) despite $2.6 million in 2026 49ers PAC spending ($11.5 million since 2020), as Rep. Jimmy Panetta’s SEED Act provided up to $350 in federal tax deductions for TK teachers spending $895 a year, 49ers receiver Brandon Aiyuk filed to report Friday ahead of the Nov. 10 trade deadline, and Billy Evans discussed the documentary You Can See Everything.
Collins Dictionary selected "mogging"—slang meaning to outshine someone—as its 2026 Word of the Year after usage jumped 210% across its 27-billion-word corpus alongside "P(doom)" and "ghost jobs," while Cincinnati Museum Center prepared the 80th season of the 1946 Duke Energy Holiday Trains (featuring 300+ rail cars and 50 to 60 locomotives from November 13, 2026 to January 4, 2027) and North Charleston’s 2nd annual Park Circle Block Party on November 14 backed Rock N Roll Rescue’s music programs for children ages 9 to 14.
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 convenes November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station (with doors opening at 9 a.m. ET, up to $100 single-pass savings, and 15% to 30% group discounts), while indie game studios Studio Daimon (waiting since October 12) and 2 Left Thumbs (delayed nearly 2 weeks) face multi-week Valve Steam review backlogs after October’s Steam Next Fest jumped 65.2% to 7,240 games (with 49.9% of releases since 2024 disclosing AI use) and reverse image searches debunked altered 2023 Jeff Bezos and 2011 Jason Statham photos.
Pleasanton and Dublin voters are casting Election Day ballots on Tuesday, November 3, for Pleasanton Mayor (Jack Balch vs. Julie Testa), Council Districts 1 and 2, PUSD Area 5, and Measure HH’s hotel tax increase to 12% generating $2.8 million annually, alongside Dublin’s first district-based council election, Mayor Sherry Hu’s race, and DUSD’s $144-per-parcel Measure I raising $2.9 million annually—just ahead of the Goodguys 36th Fuel Curve Autumn Get-Together bringing 2,500+ cars to the Alameda County Fairgrounds on November 14–15.
The Livermore Public Library announced a free November 12 Armchair Travelers lecture by veterinarian Randy Lung at the Civic Center Library Storytime Room while the City of Hayward launched a 5-year Active Transportation Plan update combining its Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plans, the American Heart Association recruited adults with a BMI of 25 or higher for its online Healthy Living BEYOND Weight Study, and HHS reminded seniors that Medicare Open Enrollment runs through December 7.
Broadcast confirmations from European grocers—including Sweden’s Coop (7 of 800+ stores) and ICA in Sjöbo, Belgium’s Carrefour (15 of 700 stores) and Delhaize, Ireland’s Musgrave/SuperValu (13 stores), and 17 Dutch Danfoss sites—revealed that the +50°C (122°F) freezer attacks resemble August cyberattacks on at least 6 U.S. military base commissaries under Pentagon investigation, while Belarusian and Ukrainian hackers claimed a 6-month breach of 25,000 computers at Russia’s Rosstat.
