CRIMES & INCIDENTS San Jose police efforts in East Palo Alto end The efforts of San Jose police to find two men in East Palo Alto who allegedly robbed a liquor store in San Jose Tuesday afternoon and then fled to East Palo Alto are over, ac... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, 1 hour ago There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent 1 hour ago.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Former Woodside coach faces prison Guy Delmar Hayman, former coach of the Woodside High School girls varsity basketball team, pleaded no contest Tuesday to a felony charge of lewd and lascivious conduct on a 14... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, 2 hours ago There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent 2 hours ago.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Town Square Comment Snob https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7115
Can we get one of these for the Town Square?
READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by plugin, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, 2 hours ago There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent 2 hours ago.
AROUND TOWN Sandra Lonnquist resigns as PA Chamber CEO Sandra Lonnquist, who has headed the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce for the past six years, will resign effective Oct. 31, she announced today.
"It's time," she told the We... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, 3 hours ago There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent 1 hour ago.
CRIMES & INCIDENTS Free at last Though it sounds cliched, Rick Walker considers himself a living lesson. He is proof, he says, that the justice system is flawed — that white cops and prosecutors are no... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, 4 hours ago There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent 4 hours ago.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Water prices may double in next decade A snowflake in the high Sierras melts into a stream, flows down hundreds of miles of gravity-driven rivers and pipes and finally pours out a tap in Palo Alto.
Read the full s... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, 5 hours ago There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent 1 hour ago.
AROUND TOWN Grocery store commits to Edgewood Plaza Fresh & Easy Grocer has committed to build a store as part of the Edgewood Plaza neighborhood shopping center in Palo Alto when it is rebuilt, according to Sand Hill Property ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, 5 hours ago There have been 8 comments on this topic, the most recent 3 hours ago.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Barack Obama takes double digit lead 53%-43% in polls The latest ABC News poll shows Obama leading 53% to 43%:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6020160
McCain has been plummeting in the polls ever since he pic... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Greg K, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood, 7 hours ago There have been 8 comments on this topic, the most recent 2 hours ago.
RESTAURANTS cupcakes Excited to try Sprinkles, we swung by on a couple days and encountered a huge line, so we finally went by the new cupcake place at Town & Country Village. The chocolate one w... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Sarah, a resident of the South of Midtown neighborhood, 17 hours ago
RESTAURANTS Piano Lounge/Cabaret Near Palo Alto? I have a friend coming this week who loves the Chicago piano lounge and cabaret scene there, and I am not able to identify something of that ilk on the Peninsula. Several in ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Out of Town Host, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, 18 hours ago
AROUND TOWN Three Stanford students die in Highway 1 crash Three Stanford University Graduate School of Business students died Friday night when their car plunged off a cliff on Highway 1 near Big Sur.
Read the full story here http:/... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, 23 hours ago There have been 9 comments on this topic, the most recent 33 minutes ago.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Simitian launches 'oughta be a law' contest State Sen. Joe Simitian has launched his 6th "There Oughta Be a Law" contest, where people are invited to suggest ideas for new state legislation.
Read the full story her... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Oct 12, 2008 at 1:41 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent 4 hours ago.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Opting out of Yellow Pages I haven't used phone directories for years now that we have the Internet. Yet AT&T and their competitors persist in delivering them to every household whether we want them or... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Dave, a resident of the Professorville neighborhood, on Oct 12, 2008 at 11:12 am
PALO ALTO SCHOOLS & KIDS Pumpkin patches There seems to be fewer and fewer pumpkin paches around. Los Altos and Montain View pumpkin patches are gone. What is left? I do not want to spend hours sitting in traffic on ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Ada, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 12, 2008 at 10:55 am There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent 17 hours ago.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Iran Sets Preconditions for US Meeting Barack Obama may intend to meet with Iran without preconditions (yes, he did say it, no matter how he tries to deny it now), but Iran isn’t granting Obama the same courtesy: I... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 12, 2008 at 10:04 am There have been 10 comments on this topic, the most recent 3 hours ago.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO McCain's Military Record Questioned An article in Rolling Stone looks at McCain's military record in some detail. Everyone knows he was a P.O.W., but there is more to it than that. He finished 894th in a class o... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Very Interesting, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 12, 2008 at 8:44 am There have been 23 comments on this topic, the most recent 1 hours ago.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO AARP: Every Week Thousands of Americans File Bankruptcy Due to Medical Costs AARP, along with other organizations, has launched a campaign called Divided We Fail,
http://www.aarp.org/issues/dividedwefail/ .
You can see video of personal stories of ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Divided We Fail, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Oct 11, 2008 at 3:42 pm There have been 16 comments on this topic, the most recent 1 hour ago.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Editorial: EPA City Council needs new approach It has been said for many years — decades even — that East Palo Alto is a community of much potential but one that is teetering on the brink of its future. Never has that perc... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Oct 11, 2008 at 10:45 am There have been 9 comments on this topic, the most recent 3 hours ago.
BOOKS Sleep needed for memory, scientists find Stanford University researchers have found that a normal cycle of sleep isn't just important for restfulness, but it also may help us remember what we learn.
Read the full st... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Oct 11, 2008 at 10:34 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Oct 11, 2008 at 10:34 am.
SPORTS Rice does it all in big Menlo football victory Menlo School senior Jerry Rice, Jr. made as many new fans as his famous father did on Friday night in the Knights' PAL Bay Division football opener against Terra Nova. If ther... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Oct 11, 2008 at 9:25 am There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent 25 minutes ago.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO "Creative Mortgage", Anyone? The lastest issue of the Palo Alto Weekly saw a significant amount of content on real estate advertisement. One of the articles, apparently by Weekly staff, featured local mor... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Wake-Up, a resident of another community, on Oct 11, 2008 at 8:57 am
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO CT Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban - one more step Another state court sees the light! It will keep happening, state by state.
http://snipurl.com/49h7t
Opponents of gay marriage can only hope that the US Supreme Court w... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by SkepticAl, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood, on Oct 10, 2008 at 11:16 pm There have been 36 comments on this topic, the most recent 48 minutes ago.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO IBD NEWS: Talk Turns To Jive About Ayers Barack Obama now says he knew who Bill Ayers was but thought he was "rehabilitated." And they say McCain is erratic! Where are the fact-checkers when you need them?http://www.... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 10, 2008 at 10:28 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Oct 11, 2008 at 12:54 am.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO William F. Buckley's Son Endorses Obama Quote:
John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Left of Boom, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Oct 10, 2008 at 9:57 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Oct 10, 2008 at 11:57 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing Justice may be served: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/08/politics/p174012D73.DTL&tsp=1 READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Peter, a resident of another community, on Oct 10, 2008 at 5:51 pm There have been 14 comments on this topic, the most recent on Oct 10, 2008 at 10:19 pm.