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Palo Alto to bring back traffic-enforcement team
After years of budget cuts and staff freezes, the Palo Alto Police Department is now experiencing an "early thaw" and looking forward to hiring more officers and restoring a m... |
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12 minutes ago by oh well, a resident of the Palo Alto Orchards neighborhood |
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Palo Alto hits the brakes on new housing vision
Palo Alto's official housing vision, already years overdue, will undergo further revisions after residents around Maybell Avenue protested the inclusion of a controversial -- ... |
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17 minutes ago by Sylvia, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Stanford wants to expand undergrad enrollment
Stanford University wants to expand its undergraduate enrollment if it can raise the money to build housing for the additional students, President John Hennessy said Thursday.... |
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32 minutes ago by aaron , a resident of Menlo Park |
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Editorial: A backwards process on Maybell project
Imagine making a substantial family investment in something before determining its value, how other family members felt about it and deciding if it was the best way to meet yo... |
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1 hour ago by Grass Roots, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood |
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Residents irked by change in Palo Alto's 'housing vision'
As Palo Alto nears the finish line in adopting a long overdue housing vision, residents in one neighborhood are rising up to protest a late revision in the document that would... |
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4 hours ago by Grass Roots, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood |
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Palo Alto seeks flickers of hope for fiber network
As local technologists can readily vouch, Palo Alto's journey toward a citywide high-speed Internet network has been anything but high speed. But members of the City Council's... |
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21 hours ago by just thinkin\', a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Palo Alto to beef up sidewalk requirements
In discussing Palo Alto's sidewalk dilemma, Councilwoman Karen Holman borrowed a line from writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who famously said that "architecture is frozen mu... |
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on May 18, 2013 at 4:16 pm by sister madly, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Car campers...time to ban them!
If you have car campers in your neighborhood, it is a lot worse than unfinished homes next to you, although I do agree that unfinished homes are also an issue.
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on May 18, 2013 at 2:20 pm by Gary, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
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Palo Alto bans smoking at all parks
Palo Alto took its strongest stance to date against tobacco on Monday night, when the City Council swiftly passed a law that would snuff out smoking at all local parks.
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on May 16, 2013 at 11:30 pm by Green&Clean, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Palo Alto to further debate manager salaries
Palo Alto's drive to give its group of managers of professionals a 2 percent raise this year hit a speed bump Monday night when the City Council decided that the compensation ... |
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on May 16, 2013 at 4:25 pm by peninsula commuter, a resident of another community |
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Two men attempt robbery in downtown Palo Alto
Two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, attempted to rob three women in downtown Palo Alto on the 700 block of Emerson Street last night at about 10 p.m.
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on May 16, 2013 at 2:22 pm by wally, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
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City has little leeway with unfinished homes
Eight years after construction began, a Barron Park residence remains unfinished, much to the chagrin of neighbors who find it unsightly. Now, residents, through a neighborhoo... |
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on May 16, 2013 at 11:55 am by paly parent, a member of the Palo Alto High School community |
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Matadero bike boulevard meeting tonight
Plans for a bicycle boulevard along Barron Park's Matadero Avenue will be discussed at a community meeting on Wednesday, May 15.
Read the full story here Web Link... |
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on May 15, 2013 at 6:37 pm by Thanx, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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jets overhead -- 7:50am
Anyone know what's up with all the jets flying overhead this morning? VERY noisy! |
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on May 15, 2013 at 1:32 pm by Magic jets!!!!, a resident of the Professorville neighborhood |
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Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ
A recently-published Harvard University meta-analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that children who live in areas with highly fluoridated w... |
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on May 15, 2013 at 1:17 pm by Anonymous, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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The promise and reality of electric cars
While environmentalists are calling for an end to fossil fuel pipelines, and oil company apologists claim that Greens want to force everyone onto mass transit, electric vehicl... |
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on May 14, 2013 at 10:10 pm by Craig Laughton, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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Stanford: treatment delays multiple sclerosis onset in mice
Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine discovered that blocking the expression of a single protein in the brains of mice with a form of multiple sclerosis... |
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on May 13, 2013 at 6:50 pm by Lourdes Water, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Green Building requirements for remodel homes
Hi,
We were recently planning on remodeling our house, which includes significant changes to existing house. Along with all the requirements and rules that the city provide... |
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on May 13, 2013 at 8:30 am by Just Did It, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Palo Alto running out of patience on Mitchell Park Library delays
With the completion of Palo Alto's Mitchell Park Library and Community Center more than a year past due and the project's cost on an upswing, frustrated city officials have is... |
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on May 12, 2013 at 12:46 pm by Not an issue, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
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What is the definition of a park?
Is a park a large green area where we can walk, hike, play sports, picnic, children play? Or is it a tiny green area with no more space than a bench, a picnic table and barbeq... |
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on May 12, 2013 at 9:17 am by palo alto parent, a member of the Palo Alto High School community |
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Mobile-home residents pack school board meeting
About 375 Palo Alto residents -- including more than 100 children in local public schools -- would be displaced by the closure of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park on El Camino Rea... |
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on May 11, 2013 at 2:17 pm by palo alto parent, a member of the Palo Alto High School community |
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Building boom fuels Palo Alto's planning budget
An increase in building around Palo Alto, spurred by large commercial projects, is prompting Palo Alto's Planning and Community Environment Department to request a 23 percent ... |
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on May 11, 2013 at 1:03 pm by long-time resident, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood |
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Palo Alto councilmembers want wider sidewalks
Unpopular developments in Palo Alto come in all shapes and sizes, but they tend to have one irksome quality in common -- sidewalks that many resident believe are far too narro... |
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on May 11, 2013 at 12:26 pm by Fred Balin, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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What are the fireworks for?
10pm Friday night and the dog's are going crazy as there are ton of fireworks going off for a few minutes, what's the reason? |
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on May 11, 2013 at 3:10 am by musical, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
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Palo Alto ponders ways to spend Stanford funds
Two years after Palo Alto approved a dramatic expansion of Stanford University Medical Center, city officials find themselves in a pleasant quandary as they look for ways to s... |
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on May 10, 2013 at 6:23 pm by MIke, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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