ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Spare the Air alert issued for New Year's Day
The Bay Area will ring in the new year with a Spare the Air Day on Tuesday, Jan. 1, air quality officials have announced.
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 9:29 pm by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
How did horses get on Interstate 280?
Why and how four horses from Webb Ranch got onto Interstate 280 on Saturday, Dec. 29, is unclear. Three of the horses were struck and killed by a car on I-280 north of Alpine ... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 9:06 pm by Neighbor, a resident of Los Altos Hills |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
2013: The Year of the Future
With the post-recession triage now in the past and local sales-tax revenues climbing, 2013 promises to be a year of regrouping, soul-searching and looking far into the future ... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 9:03 pm by Boring, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Fiscal cliff: estate tax opinions?
Can someone who thinks the estate tax is a good thing tell me why they think so? As I'm examining fiscal cliff impacts, the estate tax exemption falling to $1M and the tax goi... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 8:07 pm by Anon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Positive comments about Palo Alto here please
We are constantly criticized here for being a town of whiners, which I don't think is true, but we definitely have opinions and like to share them - justified or not.
Let's... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 7:44 pm by Anon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
World Peace - Is It Possible
World Peace? You may declare, why bring this up?
The answer is, world peace is everybody's responsibility. You may say, isn't that somebody else's responsibility? I submit,... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 1:14 pm by bru, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Baylands buildings - old becomes new and new left to rot?
Why, I wonder, at the Baylands have they just redone the old Scout building and opened it as something new and special and let the old building with the boardwalk close and de... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 12:35 pm by Anon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG
Ad Libs: My top 10 arts events from 2012
Some of my favorite arts moments and events this year came from unexpected places. An impromptu piano concert overheard through a door, for instance. Or a phenomenal acting pe... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 11:14 am by LaurieN, a resident of the Charleston Meadows neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Palo Alto police arrest three people for burglary
Three people from Albania were arrested Thursday, Dec. 27, on commercial burglary and conspiracy charges at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, the Palo Alto Police Dep... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 9:34 am by Hmmm, a resident of East Palo Alto |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Midtown Palo Alto liquor store robbed at gunpoint
Two men armed with handguns robbed a liquor store in Midtown Palo Alto on Saturday night, Dec. 29, and absconded with alcohol and cash, Palo Alto police said.
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 7:45 am by Local, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG
Make University Avenue a Pedestrian Mall
I have written about this idea before, and it is worth bringing up again.
Driving home after a long Parks and Recreation Commission meeting, I thought about the Pearl Stree... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 1:13 am by Anon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Caltrain board elects new officers
The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (JPB), which owns and operates Caltrain, unanimously elected Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager as board chair Thursday.
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on Jan 3, 2013 at 9:40 pm by Wondering?, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
San Francisco Airport Incoming Flight Patterns and Noise Pollution
Is it my imagination or have the incoming flight patterns changed such that more flights into San Francisco Airport are brought in directly over Palo Alto? Are planes flying l... |
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on Jan 3, 2013 at 9:38 pm by Anon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
SPORTS
Stanford's Debniak has become a quiet force
Alex Debniak is not your average Stanford student-athlete. Peel back the layers, and you discover what an extraordinary journey he made to The Farm.
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on Jan 3, 2013 at 9:07 pm by Nancy, a member of the Jordan Middle School community |
AROUND TOWN
Chi-Chang Kao named new director of SLAC
An associate laboratory director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has been named as the lab's fifth director, Stanford University President John Hennessy announced Wedn... |
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on Jan 3, 2013 at 6:07 pm by Hmmm, a resident of East Palo Alto |
AROUND TOWN
New safe-driving laws take effect in California
Texting while driving, red-light cameras and party buses are among the targets of new driving-related laws that took effect in California Tuesday, Jan. 1.
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on Jan 3, 2013 at 5:46 pm by Don\'t Drive with gadgets, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
$22M verdict against PAMF in malpractice lawsuit
The Palo Alto Medical Foundation was hit with one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in Santa Clara County history Monday, March 19, after a Menlo Park woman suffered... |
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on Jan 3, 2013 at 3:27 pm by John Gruver, a resident of another community |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Train horn noise
We recently moved to Palo Alto, we live 1200 ft away from rail tracks. On most nights, we wake up because of extremely loud train horns. We initially thought it was caltrain, ... |
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on Jan 3, 2013 at 1:09 pm by Joseph E. Davis, a resident of Woodside |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Palo Alto's top projects of 2012
Palo Alto's effort to reinvigorate the charming but neglected commercial strip of California Avenue sped ahead this year despite speed bumps of opposition from area merchants.... |
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on Jan 3, 2013 at 1:04 pm by Local roots, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Do we need that large number of Police Officers Patrolling Palo Alto?
Do we need that large number of Police Officers Patrolling Palo Alto?
here is what happened today: i placed an old computer for sale on Craigslist because I just purchased ... |
Old homewoener |
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on Jan 3, 2013 at 12:48 pm by fake 911 calls, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Some details may remain unknown about crash that killed three horses
With at least two routes to the northbound lane of Interstate 280 north of Alpine Road, the management at Webb Ranch in Ladera may never know exactly which route four mature h... |
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on Jan 2, 2013 at 11:47 pm by DDee, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
SPORTS
Stanford wins Rose Bowl over Wisconsin, 20-14
Usua Amanam's interception with 2:03 left in the game and two field goals by Jordan Williamson carried Stanford to a 20-14 victory over Wisconsin in the 99th annual Rose Bowl ... |
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on Jan 2, 2013 at 9:08 pm by Peter Cao, a resident of Stanford |
AROUND TOWN
First Person: A conversation with the Stanford Tree
Stanford grad Jonathan Strange talks to Lisa Van Dusen about what it takes to be the Stanford Tree, mascot of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band, in anticipat... |
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on Jan 2, 2013 at 7:57 pm by Boooring!, a resident of the Esther Clark Park neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
CHP arrests 208 for DUI over New Year's weekend
The California Highway Patrol is reporting that it made the same number of DUI arrests in the Bay Area over the holiday compared to the same period last year while fatal colli... |
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on Jan 2, 2013 at 6:27 pm by musical, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Top five trends of 2012
If there is one trend that has shaped Palo Alto's most fervent debates of 2012 it's the city's push to encourage dense development near major transit stations -- namely, downt... |
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on Jan 2, 2013 at 5:41 pm by dan, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
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