CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Police hunt for clues in girl's abduction
Palo Alto and Sunnyvale police are still seeking witnesses in the abduction, brutal beating and sexual assault of a 17-year-old Gunn High School student that began about 3:10 ... |
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on Nov 10, 2007 at 12:30 am by Danny, a resident of the Professorville neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Measures M & N easily win
Palo Alto city officials expected Measure M and Measure N to easily win Tuesday night, but the margins of victory were larger than anticipated.
Read the full story here h... |
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on Nov 9, 2007 at 7:17 pm by Realist, a resident of the Professorville neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Anna Luskin's 'legacy' vision of her life
When the parents of Anna Luskin visited her apartment in San Luis Obispo -- where she just completed her second year studying journalism at Cal Poly -- they found a short clas... |
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on Nov 9, 2007 at 6:40 pm by Emma, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Klausner storms ahead in school board race
Barbara Klausner has emerged as a clear victor in the race for a seat on Palo Alto's school board with 8,992 votes, while Melissa Baten Caswell is in second with 6,089, accord... |
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on Nov 9, 2007 at 5:44 pm by OhlonePar, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Victim AND rapist need our prayers
Both the victim and the rapist are young kids. The school age victim should be applauded for her courage and receive our prayers as she begins to heal from this
Traumatic ev... |
Ann |
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on Nov 9, 2007 at 4:00 pm by james, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
California Avenue and Castro Street Design and Use
Dear Town Square Readers,
I am conducting research for a doctoral dissertation on the topic of urban street design and the use of streets through the Institute for Sustaina... |
Joe Kott |
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on Nov 9, 2007 at 2:28 pm by Joe Kott, a resident of another community |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Edgewood Plaza needs to be scraped
Count me as a strong supporter of tearing down the entire Edgewood Plaza center and starting over with an attractivly designed retail/mixed use development or retail only cent... |
Bill T. |
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on Nov 9, 2007 at 1:24 pm by Whats taking so long, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Exciting LEED-certified Design Could Inspire Palo Alto Developers and Citizens
Web Link
Here's a very nice LEED Gold certified mixed-use project in Southern California. Palo Alto... |
Jeremy Loski |
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on Nov 9, 2007 at 9:25 am by John M., a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Caltrain holdup
6:26
As i was driving by on alma, two trains seemed to be together, no one seemed to be injured but people were climbing out of the train. Not sure what happened though...... |
Andrew |
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on Nov 9, 2007 at 8:58 am by UIUIUIUIUIU, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Not the 1st time he's been accused of rape
Todd Burpee was accused of raping a Paly student several years ago, but no charges were ever filed. Maybe people should have believed the girl--she ended up transferring to Gu... |
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on Nov 9, 2007 at 3:52 am by Nora Charles, a resident of Stanford |
AROUND TOWN
Oak Tree dropping too many acorns?
The acorn crop this year surpasses any I have seen on my back deck for 30 years. And they are dropping with such pressure that they make a loud, sometimes explosive, noise. Do... |
Barbara |
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on Nov 8, 2007 at 6:26 pm by Alice B., a resident of another community |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Bush lectures Musharraf
From a BBC news story:
Web Link
"Mr Bush said he told Gen Musharraf it was not right to continue as both president and head of t... |
Chitzpah in DC |
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on Nov 8, 2007 at 6:24 pm by GMC, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Look at So Cal Fires
Hello Folks;
Just wanted for you to see something about the fires that destroyed So Cal. The fires that destroyed so manys peoples dreams and homes.
Go to Sign O... |
Fireman |
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on Nov 8, 2007 at 5:16 pm by Carolyn, a resident of another community |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Editorial: Palo Alto's saga of fear and relief ends
Todd David Burpee's reported admission that "It could have been anyone" that he attacked Oct. 30 added a new element to a horrendous week of trauma for Palo Alto, from the 17-... |
Editor |
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on Nov 8, 2007 at 2:54 pm by dreed, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
Slow should not be the way to go in Palo Alto
Slow motion -- that's the way I would describe the pace at which many things get done in Palo Alto.
Slow to get roads repaired, libraries facelifted, Web sites working -- t... |
Diana Diamond |
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on Nov 8, 2007 at 1:21 pm by Norm, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
City's new Web site slammed by community
Aiming for elegance, the city of Palo Alto's new Web site has been nearly universally decried. But city staff remain convinced that with refinement, the city's Web site, launc... |
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on Nov 8, 2007 at 1:15 pm by Mike, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Kidnapping suspect is arraigned in court
Todd David Burpee was arraigned in Santa Clara County Superior Court this afternoon on charges he beat, kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 17-year-old Gunn High School student... |
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on Nov 8, 2007 at 1:03 pm by Chris, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Espinosa, Burt, Yeh, Schmid lead council race
Greg Schmid slipped past Dan Dykwel Tuesday with a 570-vote margin, grabbing the fourth seat on the Palo Alto City Council -- providing the only unpredicted quirk in a race ma... |
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on Nov 8, 2007 at 12:44 pm by Mike, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
City staff defends maligned Web site
Nearly three months after the City of Palo Alto's debuted its new, widely unpopular Web site, three of the site's managers maintained Wednesday that the new site is an improve... |
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on Nov 8, 2007 at 10:05 am by Cant find, a resident of the Southgate neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Hey, Pingyu! I voted for you!
Whatever the outcome of the election, your candidacy has been victory itself.
I was charmed by your wholehearted gusto as a candidate taking part in the democratic process.... |
Democracy Lover |
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on Nov 8, 2007 at 7:58 am by Palo Parent, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Guest Opinion: Why Rumsfeld doesn't deserve a 'distinguished' post at Hoover
My freshman year at Stanford, I took a humanities class in which the professor, former Stanford University President Gerhard Casper, banned tape recorders during lecture.
Re... |
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on Nov 7, 2007 at 9:10 pm by a, a resident of the Adobe-Meadows neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
I'm almost ready to wonder about school uniforms
I overheard the conversation yet again this afternoon. Elementary school girls were talking about another girl behind her back and putting her down because she is not wearing ... |
Worried Parent |
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on Nov 7, 2007 at 8:02 pm by Terry, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Michael Mukasey
Once again, the Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee failed to fully challenge the nominee for Attorney General (AG), Michael Mukasey. Incredibly, Mukasey defended many o... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on Nov 7, 2007 at 4:26 pm by thanks for catching my own knee-jerk, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Moderate quake near San Jose shakes Bay Area
A moderate earthquake struck the Bay Area at 8:04 p.m. The initial estimate was that it registered 5.6 on the Richter Scale and was centered about five miles north-northeast o... |
Editor |
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on Nov 7, 2007 at 1:32 pm by dude, a member of the Palo Alto High School community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Know a good math tutor?
It's become clear that my child is not going to able to successfully navigate advanced math without a tutor. Apparently, I'm late to understand this and many of the other kid... |
Math-Phobic Parent |
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on Nov 7, 2007 at 1:20 pm by dude, a member of the Palo Alto High School community |
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