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RESTAURANTS
Cafe LA Tosca
E-mail this topic. Print this topic. HI !! There's a good looking restaurant on Laurel St San carlos called "Cafe LA Tosca " Has anyone eaten there yet? I'd lov...
 
Tiffany
 
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on Jun 12, 2007 at 1:34 am by Tiffany, a resident of Menlo Park
AROUND TOWN
ReaderWire
Wrong time to cut 88 Read the full story here Web Link
 
Editor
 
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on Jun 12, 2007 at 12:55 am by Mike, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood
AROUND TOWN
Soap Box Derby - kids racing - today and tomorrow!!
The Palo Alto Elks' Soap Box Derby races are TODAY and TOMORROW (6/9-10) at the 100 block of Dana Street in Mountain View. Kids, including our daughter from Juana Briones sch...
 
Renata Stachura
 
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on Jun 11, 2007 at 5:24 pm by joe sparaco, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Anti-panhandling effort set for Saturday
Palo Alto Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto and other city officials will be part of an effort Saturday afternoon and evening to convince people to not give money to downtown panhandlers...
 
Editor
 
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on Jun 11, 2007 at 4:27 pm by Norm, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Ground beef recall
This latest outbreak of E-Coli in ground beef shows it is past time to require all ground meat and poultry in interstate commerce to be irradiation sterilized, then hermetical...
 
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on Jun 11, 2007 at 3:09 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Modern nomads
A camel and a 4x4 truck. Cantor Arts Center director Thomas Seligman likes to use this improbable pair to illustrate the world of the Tuareg people of West Africa. Read the f...
 
Editor
 
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on Jun 11, 2007 at 1:15 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Spoilt Palo Alto kids?
What is the criteria for saying a Palo Alto kid is spoilt. When I was growing up we used to think that if someone was an only child they were automatically spoilt and that was...
 
Parent
 
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on Jun 11, 2007 at 12:32 pm by yet another parent, a member of the Escondido School community
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Boyarsky out as North County supervising DA
Jay Boyarsky, the supervising deputy district attorney for northern Santa Clara County for the past 5.5 years, is being reassigned to an undetermined job under a rotation move...
 
Editor
 
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on Jun 11, 2007 at 12:15 pm by Mary Ann Parker, a resident of Mountain View
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Blocking of El Camino Sidewalks
Many merchants along El Camino block the sidewalk with signs and merchandise. Some of the worst offenders are the sandwich shops and the florists. Barron Park Florist blocks t...
 
Wheelchair User
 
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on Jun 11, 2007 at 11:05 am by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Modern nomads
Exhibit shows Tuareg people of West Africa holding onto traditions, but moving with the times
A camel and a 4x4 truck. Cantor Arts Center director Thomas Seligman li...
 
Editor
 
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on Jun 11, 2007 at 9:18 am by Paul Rankin, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Powell Calls for Closing Gitmo
Powell calls for closing Guantanamo Bay and using the normal legal system because Gitmo is undermining faith in the rule of law in America. After six years only one person h...
 
Anonymous
 
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on Jun 11, 2007 at 8:29 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Woman's death in fire is ruled accidental
The death of an elderly woman in a Palo Alto house fire on Wednesday afternoon has been ruled by the Santa Clara County Coroner's Office to have been accidental due to smoke i...
 
Editor
 
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on Jun 11, 2007 at 3:40 am by Jacques & Beatriz, a resident of another community
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Are your teens getting enough sleep?
Three local high schools are beginning to look at the significance of sleep for teens as part of the fight against stress. Would you support a later start time for high school...
 
Editor
 
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on Jun 10, 2007 at 7:50 pm by Fred, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Palo Alto Residential Streets on Google StreetView
In Google Maps' new feature "StreetView", every single Palo Alto *residential* street is covered. While I am quite proud of how our city looked, I cannot help but wonder: did...
 
Anonymous
 
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on Jun 9, 2007 at 8:19 pm by RS, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Lets Move On: Rectifying Sloppy Choice Policy
Yes, I agree. Lets move on now. I believe the next order of business is to prevent the board from slinking away from the table and pretending the whole thing didn't happen. ...
 
Neighbrhood School Proponent
 
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on Jun 9, 2007 at 3:50 pm by OhlonePar, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Public Transport Think Tank needed
Due to the possible demise of route 88 and the accident on the overcrowded cross town shuttle, it seems reasonable that a Think Tank should be set up to deal with local public...
 
Resident
 
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on Jun 9, 2007 at 2:27 pm by Grandma, a resident of the Charleston Gardens neighborhood
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Bush Admin. Visits to Silicon Valley Very Few
There are many Republicans and Democrats here in Silicon Valley. Recently Google as been hosting Presidential candidates from the Democratic side, I don't know what their pla...
 
A Boomer
 
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on Jun 9, 2007 at 11:20 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
PALO ALTO ISSUES
JLS Middle School responds to tragedy
Two counselors at JLS Middle School in Palo Alto have been available to meet with students following the highway crash death of a mother of a sixth grade student on Tuesday. <...
 
Editor
 
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on Jun 8, 2007 at 9:36 am by JLS Parent, a member of the JLS Middle School community
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Over 90% of our money is "magically" created by banks loaning money to us...
Want to delve into the specific mechanics of money creation in the USA? Here's a 47-minute video explains our perverse money system: Web Link...
 
You Won\'t Believe It
 
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on Jun 8, 2007 at 7:35 am by Another Citizen, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby gets heckled as he departs sentencing (short video)
"You should go right to jail, Libby... a bunch of criminals in the whole damn administration, got us into this war... Big Liar, Go to jail, go to jail, that's where you belong...
 
Jewish Crook
 
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on Jun 8, 2007 at 6:45 am by Just Askin\', a resident of Stanford
AROUND TOWN
Future bleak for deported family
With no job and no possibilities, Isabel Aguirre and Pedro Ramirez and their four children are clinging to a two-room shack in the mountains of central Mexico as their only re...
 
Editor
 
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on Jun 7, 2007 at 12:44 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
The Security State is a Good Thing
The recent neutralzing of the of the Islamist planned attack on JFK airport in NYC is only one of several foiled attacks on the U.S. in recent years (pre- and post- 9/11). ...
 
Jim
 
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on Jun 7, 2007 at 9:15 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
Have we misplaced our community priorities?
Watching the Palo Alto City Council talk last week about a proposed rebuilding and modernization of the Stanford Medical Center made me wonder if we have misplaced priorities ...
 
Diana Diamond
 
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on Jun 7, 2007 at 5:57 am by Not so fast, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Kids and a sense of community, Palo Alto vs. LAH
Playing pickup ball and roaming the neighborhood with the kids who lived nearby are some of my fondest memories from childhood, and I always thought that our own child, who no...
 
Peninsula Dweller
 
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on Jun 6, 2007 at 7:44 pm by KCM, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Declassified documents emerge: Was Israel's 1967 surprise attack on Egypt really necessary?
Web Link Little-noticed details in declassified U.S. documents indicate that Israel's Six-Day War may not h...
 
Oh Oh
 
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on Jun 6, 2007 at 1:52 pm by Sarlat, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood


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