Mark Dinan

The US Administration is poised to announce a new $100,000 tax on international students who work even briefly after graduation. This is not the H-1B tax, it's new and additional. Today @iza.org released my new estimates of the economic effects of that tax —>

Sunset in East Palo Alto Saturday Night

East Palo Alto City Council is scheduled to discuss the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance tonight at our meeting on Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. East Palo Alto needs to recognize that we gave Inclusionary Housing a try and it does not work in our community.

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epasun.org/when-green-t... We have built a regulatory climate designed to halt progress rather than move forward with sensible compromise.

Renters shouldn't have to hire scouts to find a decent apartment in their price range. When you build a lot of new housing, landlords must compete for tenants—not the other way around. (Indeed, it's the only way that rents ever fall!) www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

You actually do not have to apologize to the bad faith assholes who apply the maximally uncharitable interpretation to every single thing you say and do, even if those assholes have marginalized identities.

Housing is distributed by people’s ability to pay. Refusing to build expensive new homes in your neighborhood does not make the rich people disappear or move elsewhere, it just ensures that they’ll outbid current residents for existing homes and renovate them into luxury housing.

East Palo Alto has gone two years without a homicide

East Palo Alto Mayor Webster Lincoln and Midpen Board Member Karen Holman opened up the new entrance to the Ravenswood Preserve on Rutgers Avenue today.

Meanwhile in East Palo Alto: epasun.org/carlos-romer... When I ran for City Council running on a platform of “Make our Streets Safe for Kids” I thought I would be advocating for speed humps, roundabouts, & bike lanes NOT dealing with a councilman who wants to free an accused child rapist from jail

Great seminar at Stanford today on US immigration policy.

www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/05/e... East Palo Alto finished 2025 without a single homicide, marking the second murder-free year in three years and reinforcing signs of a lasting departure from the violence that once defined the city.

East Palo Alto had zero murders in 2025!

Pretty sunset this week in East Palo Alto

East Palo Alto settled a lawsuit challenging its “inclusionary zoning” policy, ruling out — for now — the possibility that a federal court might find it, and similar programs across the country, unconstitutional. bit.ly/4pgJj2k 📝 @frombenc.bsky.social 📸 Mike Blake, Reuters

🎸✨ This Saturday at EPACENTER ARTS! Join me in East Palo Alto for a free afternoon of family music and fun with James Henry! 📅 This Saturday, Nov 22 🕐 1–4 PM 📍 East Palo Alto Bring the family, and sing along! #AndyZ #EPACENTER #FamilyMusic #KidsMusic #FreeEvent

Avec de nouveaux arbres, de la nature et plus de place pour les piétons, Paris change ! La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !

Nuestra Casa from East Palo Alto presenting at Thrive’s Climate Summit on water quality in EPA.

Community for Climate: East Palo Alto Resilience Fair Promotes Sustainability ->M-A Chronicle | #Sustainability #Climate | More from BigEarthData.ai

Introducing our 2nd speaker joining us Sat Oct 11th: Poet and Former East Palo Alto Mayor, Antonio López! Antonio brings incredible knowledge about how to build up our communities and inspire a new generation of leaders! For more info, click the 🔗 below! aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/68c8c...

epasun.org/on-the-front... We have a lot of work to do in East Palo Alto to meet the housing shortage caused by a generation of underinvestment in new housing supply. We must pivot away from a failed housing strategy and move towards one that meets the housing needs of today.

Proper framing. Now do cars.

Fun with Friends at the Silicon Valley Bike Coalition Summit.

Nice walk out the door in East Palo Alto with Miguel and Benny doggo tonight.

ICE raid in East Palo Alto today.

It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.

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Fun housing event last night in East Palo Alto with Jerusalem Demsas and Ben Metcalf of the Turner Center at Berkeley.

“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect

www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-talk-... Jerusalem Demsas in East Palo Alto on May 29

Googlers take Bike to Work Day seriously, as they should. East Palo Alto.

epasun.org/lets-open-up... East Palo Alto City Council has long prioritized community health as a goal of the city. As a Member of City Council, I will be proposing a pilot program where we spend ~$1M per year supporting East Palo Alto families by working with the YMCA to expand memberships.

www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-talk-... East Palo Alto May 29

FYI, East Palo Alto has a life expectancy between 75.8 - 81.3 years. I have recently seen people claiming that EPA has a life expectancy of 62 year, 20 years less than other cities in EPA. This data - which is on the city website - is not accurate.

www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/2025/01/23/b...

Today, the House votes on whether to begin the process of gutting Medicaid, throwing millions off their health care & making it worse for those who remain. Trump says he doesn’t want to cut Medicaid, but he’s letting the GOP push this. As usual, he’s lying. All to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

Who cares if there is a project that can be built with 25% affordable if there are twenty others you've prevented by that preposterous requirement?