SCHOOLS & KIDS
FYI - Mandarin Immersion back on the School Board Agenda
For those not totally exhausted by the Mandarin Immersion (MI) debate, you might be interested to know that the Palo Alto Board of Education is having a special session this c... |
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on May 7, 2007 at 7:55 pm by Resident, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
The MI process is now a farce
The MI process is now a farce.
Late on Friday, after the schools were done for the weekend, parents lucky enough to be in the know learned of a major change in the MI prop... |
Simon Firth |
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on Jan 9, 2007 at 12:40 pm by Lorraine, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Possible Compromise on Mandarin Immersion
Here's a letter I just sent to the School Board. What do people think of the idea?
Simon
Dear Board Members:
Possible Compromise on Mandarin Immersion
The upcomin... |
Simon Firth |
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on Dec 31, 2006 at 12:14 pm by JLS Mom, a member of the JLS Middle School community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
PAUSD Immersion Programs--'Choice' or 'luck'
I'm wondering if we need to stop referring to PAUSD programs like SI and MI as ‘choice’ programs. Wouldn't it be better to call them 'luck' programs? For the many, many pare... |
Simon Firth |
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on Nov 30, 2006 at 6:53 am by curious, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Palo Alto man stalks Marin family from the Palo Alto Apple store
Anyone know John Cannon Singleton? After terrorizing the family for years, he was eventually arrested at the Palo Alto Apple store. Story in the Mercury-News: Web Link... |
Singleton |
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on Apr 5, 2011 at 6:13 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Oct 16th accident?
Did anyone else here all of the emergency vehicals responding late Thursday night? I turned on my police scanner and heard them dispatch a life flight. Does anyone have furt... |
Skeldawg |
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on Oct 17, 2008 at 2:51 pm by skeldawg, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Sex crimes spin?
Stanford reporting more sexual assaults
In this Weekly article (see link below), Stanford Deputy Chris Cohendet is quoted as saying:
"It's not an increase in assaults b... |
skeptic |
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on Oct 31, 2007 at 1:09 am by Patricia, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
CT Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban - one more step
Another state court sees the light! It will keep happening, state by state.
Web Link
Opponents of gay marriage can only hope that the US Supreme Court w... |
SkepticAl |
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on Oct 16, 2008 at 5:33 pm by Marriage Changes, a resident of the Esther Clark Park neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
CA Majority Supports Gay Marriage
Gay marriage has the support of a majority of Californians, according to this poll.
Web Link
The ... |
SkepticAl |
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on Jun 4, 2008 at 9:58 pm by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
US News Rankings Redux
So I actually got around to reading the article we were all commenting on a while back. Some of the highlights....
- The school ranked #11 overall, (#4 among open enrollme... |
SkepticAl |
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on Jan 26, 2008 at 4:40 pm by palo alto mom, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
This is the 100th page in Town Square Forums
Wow - time flies when you're having...?
Have 100 pages of Town Square Forums, going back to May '06, improved our community dialogue, civic discourse, knowledge of ourselve... |
SkepticAl |
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on Dec 24, 2007 at 12:16 pm by Resident,, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Iraq: Best-Case, Most Likely, and Worst-Case
Over the next few days, I'll post a few expert opinions offered to Tim Dickinson (Rolling Stone, 3/22/07) regarding the range of scenarios for Iraq, from best to worst. Let's... |
SkepticAl |
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on Jun 5, 2007 at 9:37 pm by SkepticAl, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Even conservatives want AG out
To hear the conservative voice online here, you'd think that all the fuss about US attorneys and Attorney General Gonzales was politics as usual, just a bunch of liberals tryi... |
SkepticAl |
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on May 17, 2007 at 4:11 pm by SkepticAl, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Locker room talk
In the locker room of my gym at about 5 p.m. today, I was quite disheartened to hear a man I assume to be a member of my community openly using pejorative language and making... |
SkepticAl |
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on Mar 11, 2007 at 3:08 pm by SkepticAl, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Unhealthy Obsession
Post after post after post, thread after thread, we whine and moan and speculate, impugn all of our public servants and insult each other... isn't it about time to consider th... |
SkepticAl |
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on Jan 11, 2007 at 11:14 am by SkepticAl, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Hezbollah abuse and deception
Today's NY Times reports that an Israeli report is coming out with declassified photos and videos demonstrating how Hezbollah drew fire upon civilians, residences, and convoys... |
SkepticAl |
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on Dec 7, 2006 at 1:21 pm by Boaz, a resident of the Greater Miranda neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Public-nonprofit partnerships essential to city's future
Thank you for highlighting the need for public-nonprofit partnerships in your July 5 article "Friends or Foes?" This supports the fact that with the increasing cost of governm... |
Skip Justman |
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on Oct 11, 2006 at 9:21 pm by Ron Lee, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Where can I read up on what/who to vote for?
Haven't had time to study the issues or candidates and cannot vote off of the sample ballot catalog. However, as my duty as a U.S. citizen, I vote. Any links to editorials? Th... |
Slacker |
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on Nov 2, 2010 at 2:17 pm by voted, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Helicopter buzz in midtown at 4am?
A helicopter buzzed our house in midtown at around 4am July 19. It was going low and very slow. So low that we could feel the wind from the rotors blowing into our windows. ... |
sleepless in palo alto |
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on Jul 26, 2009 at 5:18 pm by Anne, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
The plan to imprison millions of Americans in detention centers is known as ENDGAME
"The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees."
The e... |
SMELL THE COFFEE |
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on Mar 1, 2008 at 1:30 pm by perspective, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
fire in southern Palo Alto this afternoon?
Is there a fire in southern Palo Alto this afternoon? We went for a walk near El Carmelo Elementary School and had to turn around because the air was so smokey.
Thankfully,... |
smokey |
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on Jan 2, 2012 at 3:45 pm by smokey, a member of the El Carmelo School community |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
New Documentary: The Great Global Warming Swindle
Anyone who is interested in the theory of man-made global warming should watch this new documentary titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle". Here is a link on Google Video:
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Snowman |
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on Apr 8, 2007 at 1:18 am by JOSEPH SIMMONS, a resident of another community |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Global warming: the bogus religion of our age
Interesting article by Richard Lindzen.
Web Link=
Discu... |
Snowman |
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on Mar 14, 2007 at 9:22 am by Walter E. Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
BattleStar Galactica Comes to Palo Alto
Come discuss the "theology" of Battlestar Galactica, and its perspective on the opposition between Polytheism and Monotheism.
7:30pm on Tue., June 3, Rabbi Ari Cartun will ... |
So Say We All |
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on May 30, 2008 at 8:06 am by Walter E. Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
SPORTS
U.S. World Cup match ruined by ref
It turns out the referee for the U.S. vs Italy World Cup match was suspended after the 1998 World Cup and was barred from refereeing in 2002 for "corruption."
He completely r... |
soccer fan |
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on Jun 20, 2006 at 2:38 pm by coco, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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