ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Holocaust Survivors Share Stories in Honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day
To truly understand the fear, the pain and the atrocities of the Holocaust, you must listen to those who survived. In honor of Yom Ha’Shoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day, many... |
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on Apr 12, 2013 at 8:59 am by lew697, a resident of the Charleston Gardens neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Palo Alto to amp up recruitment for commissions
Serving on a citizen commission in Palo Alto may look to an outsider like a thankless labor of love, full of wonky public hearings, PowerPoint slides and constant reminders th... |
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on Apr 12, 2013 at 8:20 am by neighbor, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Tenure celebration fetes newly permanent teachers
Forty-two Palo Alto teachers as well as Jordan Middle School Principal Greg Barnes were honored for achieving permanent employment status Tuesday in a tenure celebration at sc... |
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on Apr 11, 2013 at 7:15 pm by Tenure Info, a resident of the Adobe-Meadows neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Palo Alto to revamp public-art program
Will Palo Alto's wave of developments usher in a public-art Renaissance? City officials certainly hope so, and on Monday night they took a step toward making it happen.
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on Apr 11, 2013 at 5:46 pm by Palo Altan, a resident of the Greendell/Walnut Grove neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
School calendar survey: 'benefits outweigh tradeoffs'
The benefits of recent changes to Palo Alto's school calendar outweigh the tradeoffs, high school students, parents and teachers have said in a new survey.
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on Apr 11, 2013 at 5:02 pm by Paly Parent, a member of the Palo Alto High School community |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Palo Alto looks to retain fraud hotline
A hotline that Palo Alto set up on a trial basis last year to give City Hall whistleblowers a tool to report fraud, waste and abuse should be kept in place permanently, a City... |
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on Apr 11, 2013 at 3:50 pm by Anonymous, a resident of another community |
AROUND TOWN
Los Altos Hills Fatal Car Crash
I'm surprised that the cracking news staff on the Weekly hasn't picked up this story.
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on Apr 11, 2013 at 8:50 am by David, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG
What Happens to Former US Presidents?
While I do not view Jon Stewart’s Daily Show or the Colbert Report to be my major news sources, I do admit I enjoy their version of “reportage.”
Former President Bill Clint... |
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on Apr 11, 2013 at 12:32 am by CrescentParkAnon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Palo Alto moves to protect retail on downtown block
Palo Alto officials turned back the zoning clock on an eclectic downtown block Monday night when they passed a law requiring property owners to devote ground-floor space to re... |
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on Apr 10, 2013 at 8:05 pm by liberty, a resident of the University South neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
HSR Corruption - Foreshadowing
California has been using the Chinese High Speed Rail construction as an example of what we can expect here in California. Not surprisingly, the head of the Chinese HSR has b... |
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on Apr 10, 2013 at 4:25 pm by neighbor, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Owner of JJ&F market eyes Miki's Alma Plaza space
Miki's Farm Fresh Market might be closing, but one local grocer is looking at potentially taking over the spot. Joe Khoury, the patriarch of the family that owns JJ&F Market, ... |
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on Apr 10, 2013 at 3:40 pm by keith@klwines, a resident of Atherton |
AROUND TOWN
Palo Alto reboots its dream of a fiber network
For more than 15 years, Palo Alto's drive toward a citywide fiber network flickered on and off like a faulty dial-up connection, with gusts of enthusiasm repeatedly stymied by... |
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on Apr 10, 2013 at 3:34 pm by Toady, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Alleged thief made hotel his home base
A man and woman from Daly City were arrested in Palo Alto on theft-related charges Thursday (Jan. 19) after an alert Palo Alto resident called 911 and police consequently foun... |
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on Apr 10, 2013 at 2:34 pm by Marla, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Fresh Market coming to Edgewood Plaza
The Fresh Market, a North Carolina-based, European-style specialty market will open its first West Coast store at Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center in Palo Alto, a source close t... |
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on Apr 10, 2013 at 12:54 pm by Pete , a resident of Mountain View |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Palo Alto Sea Scouts get new Navy boat
The Palo Alto Sea Scouts' days of rebuilding decks and maintaining four ship engines is about to walk the gang plank. A newer ship supplied by the U.S. Navy will make way for ... |
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on Apr 10, 2013 at 11:10 am by Martha Bowden, a resident of Los Altos Hills |
AROUND TOWN
Shoptalk: Samyama is a lavishly adorned yoga studio
Palo Alto's Midtown neighborhood is about to become home to one of the city's more unusual projects. Spanning two floors at almost 7,000 square feet, Samyama is a notably larg... |
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on Apr 10, 2013 at 1:52 am by Eagerly Anticipating, a resident of the South of Midtown neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Menlo Park cop caught with prostitute keeps job
Hearing a knock at the Motel 6 door, a prostitute wearing a black catsuit answered, $20 bills stashed in her cleavage. In the bathroom, Sunnyvale police officers found a veter... |
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on Apr 9, 2013 at 8:30 pm by dano, a resident of Mountain View |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Gunn student, teammate, share $10K science prize
A Gunn High School sophomore and her science-project teammate won $10,000 over the weekend in the Washington, D.C. finals of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technol... |
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on Apr 9, 2013 at 6:05 pm by Not an issue, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Example of housing insanity
If the editor will permit me, I want to illustrate the level of PA real estate craziness by comparing two homes for sale at the same price, one in Old Palo Alto, and one in La... |
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on Apr 9, 2013 at 4:40 pm by Silly valley, a resident of Menlo Park |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
The Iron Lady Passes
Margaret Thatcher was a great leader. She joined Ronald Reagan in defeating the socialist thrust, including the victory in the Cold War.
The leftists hated her, and that ... |
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on Apr 9, 2013 at 1:10 pm by Hmmm, a resident of East Palo Alto |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
East Palo Alto house fire suspicious, fire officials say
A suspicious one-alarm house fire displaced five residents in East Palo Alto Monday morning, according to fire officials.
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on Apr 9, 2013 at 1:08 pm by Hmmm, a resident of East Palo Alto |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Legal demand shuts down Edgewood Eats
An attorney's letter citing several City of Palo Alto ordinances has shut down the popular food-truck event Edgewood Eats.
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on Apr 9, 2013 at 8:21 am by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Plastic bag ban: A health issue?
In view of the upcoming plastic bag ban, I thought that recent findings from a study might be of interest to our community. Quoting from Reason:
A new study finds that plas... |
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on Apr 9, 2013 at 12:25 am by Whats the problem, a resident of the South of Midtown neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
The New Urbanism and Palo Alto
I'm not sure when it happened, but, clearly the City Council and Planning Commission have tried to embrace "The New Urbanism". I actually like the New Urbanism in general, wh... |
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on Apr 8, 2013 at 10:04 pm by A Walker, a resident of the Fairmeadow neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
New elementary school proposed for Palo Alto
The Palo Alto school district should open a new elementary school at the site of the old Peninsula Day Care Center at 525 San Antonio Road combined with the adjacent Greendell... |
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on Apr 8, 2013 at 9:53 pm by OhlonePar, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
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