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Veterans Day for me was marked by the release of a new study that noted California has the highest number – 49,724 - of homeless vets in the nation. While veterans make up 11 percent of the general population, the National Alliance to End Homelessness found through a review of VA figures and census data that they make up 25 percent of unhoused people. A look at the numbers of homeless vets in Santa Clara County is less definitive, as the 2007 homeless census counted bodies and weren't able to get to ask status. However, previous efforts by local advocates to quantify the number of homeless vets in our county revealed the county's 15-20 percent of unhoused people are veterans.

DEAR ABBY: I'm 50 and my boyfriend, "Ray," is 55. We have been together for 11 years. He's divorced with two children. I am single and childless. We owned our own homes until a year ago, when we sold them and bought a house together. We each pay half the bills including the mortgage. We love each other, get along great, have similar values and can't imagine not being together.

A San Francisco real estate developer who was charged with

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Thanksgiving feast: Succulent turkey and savory pumpkin pie are a wonderful holiday treat for human celebrants, but this turkey vulture prefers his pumpkin au naturale, no whipped cream necessary. Because vultures are not vegetarians, the pumpkin was given to Zorro (WERC's non-releasable animal ambassador) for mental, rather than nutritional, enrichment. Just like most of us probably wouldn't enjoy eating meatloaf day after day or watching the same television show over and over, the educational animals at WERC also get bored without variety.

Lately concern seems to be centered on the

Five men and one woman will interview with the Morgan Hill