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Tour of California coming to Palo Alto
Professional bicycle racers -- and about 50,000 other people -- will congregate in Palo Alto Feb. 17, 2008, for the "prologue" time trials and ceremonies that kick off the Tou... |
Editor |
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on Jul 29, 2007 at 9:54 pm by student, a member of the Gunn High School community |
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Bogus News Reports
The Center for Media and Democracy exposed another major threat to our democracy - a damning report of 46 stations in 22 states using bogus new clips disguised as news reports... |
Jag Singh |
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on Dec 31, 2006 at 2:20 pm by Draw the Line, a resident of Stanford |
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The Derry project
If the multi-story Derry condominium project near the Menlo Park trains station is built and they put a roof garden on top, residents could say, when they're headed for the ga... |
Horace Jakes |
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on Sep 29, 2006 at 7:43 pm by Horace Jakes, a resident of Menlo Park |
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New Rector Debuts Sunday at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
The new rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, the Rev. Michael Spillane, will make his first Sunday appearance at all four services – 8:00 am, 9:10 am (family service), 1... |
Linda Hubbard Gulker |
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on Mar 13, 2007 at 12:46 pm by Linda Hubbard Gulker, a resident of Menlo Park |
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Al Gore's Use of Electricity
I just read this story - curious to see if old Al will have a response. Its funny how the "Warmies" accuse every scientist who casts any skepticism on the alarmism as just a ... |
Silver Bullet |
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on Mar 1, 2007 at 7:44 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Can You Imagine Something This Wonderful Happening In Palo Alto?
Although I never agreed with going to war, it is so nice to see an entire city pull together to welcome home our troops.
You will love this slideshow: Web Link... |
Native Girl |
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on Aug 30, 2007 at 4:29 pm by Carly, a resident of the Palo Alto Hills neighborhood |
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The Peace March in East Palo Alto
I think that the people should have marched to were the people died. Then go around other places were it is starting to happen. Then I think that theyshould have walked to E... |
Vita Talakai |
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on Feb 9, 2007 at 11:17 am by People Have Been Marching, a resident of East Palo Alto |
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Impacts of genetically engineered crops on pesticide use in the U.S. -- the first sixteen years
Genetically engineered, herbicide-resistant and insect-resistant crops have been remarkable commercial successes in the United States. Few independent studies have calculated ... |
pa resident |
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on Oct 22, 2012 at 8:02 am by Resident, a resident of the Charleston Meadows neighborhood |
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Court martial of Ehren Watada
Efforts by the Pentagon to force journalists to testify against anti-war ‘refusniks’ poses a major threat to freedom of speech, the hallmark of a free democratic society. Inde... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 11, 2007 at 7:35 am by Draw the Line, a resident of Stanford |
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ABC's 9/11 docudrama
Well, the White House penchant of distorting the facts to deflect mounting criticism of its abysmal failure to reign in Osama Bin Laden is in full swing. Its late... |
Jag Singh |
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on Sep 16, 2006 at 10:29 am by Draw the Line, a resident of Stanford |
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Condi Rice to student "No, no dear, you're wrong. Alright. You're wrong. We did not torture anyone."
Condi thought she'd just hang at the dorms at Stanford and then the students got all mean and asked her about torture 'n' stuff and OMG, it's all just so unnecessary.
Must ... |
Dr. Ferragamo |
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on May 6, 2009 at 9:57 pm by Outside Observer, a resident of another community |
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IRAQ
The latest Senate Intelligence Committee report – release delayed until after the mid-term elections! - concluded that Hussein had no connection to Bin Laden and the 9/11 att... |
Jag Singh |
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on Sep 16, 2006 at 9:48 am by Draw the line, a resident of Stanford |
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Follow up to Jimmy Carter
This is from the AP:
"ATLANTA (AP) -- A longtime aide to Jimmy Carter has resigned from the Carter Center think tank, calling the former president's new book on Israel and th... |
Schlomo |
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on Dec 7, 2006 at 6:42 am by Draw the Line, a resident of Stanford |
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Condi Rice plans return to Stanford where she will "look back and write books"
This is an article from December 2006:
Web Link
An excerpt:
"Once her tenure as secretary of state is over... |
Robin |
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on Jan 26, 2007 at 7:37 am by Robin, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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Hidden Villa update, please
So what really happened at the Hidden Villa board meeting? And Tom Livermore was somehow replaced by Lee Price? |
Sarah |
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on Jun 28, 2006 at 11:14 pm by Sarah, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Why are we involved in yet another war, in Libya, President Obama?
President Obama,
I voted for you. I believed in you. Why are you starting yet ANOTHER war? Today, it was reported that unmanned planes are shooting bombs at the Libyan peop... |
Karen |
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on Apr 29, 2011 at 10:16 am by The real sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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The Criminal Mind of george Bush
Not "cogito ergo sum," but "I think; therefore it is so."
Let's see now. What was that guy's name, the psychologist whose area of expertise was the criminal personality? I ... |
Senior Blues |
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on Jan 26, 2007 at 9:04 am by Senior Blues, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
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Threads completely deleted concerning Israel
In the last couple of days, two threads started by Jag Singh have been completely removed from this forum.
is there a new policy in effect that any threads dealing with Israe... |
Boaz |
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on Aug 5, 2007 at 9:01 am by Avoid Dante\'s Hell, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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ISRAEL
A new book, Der Krieg im Dunkeln (War in the Dark) by Udo Ulfkotte, formerly a correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, casts a disturbing light on Israel’s world... |
Jag Singh |
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on Nov 1, 2006 at 12:39 pm by Boaz, a resident of the Greater Miranda neighborhood |
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Iraq Study Group
The much hyped Iraq Study Group (ISG), deserve a resounding failing grade for their efforts to provide a fig leaf to extricate George Bush and his advisors from their criminal... |
Jag Singh |
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on Dec 9, 2006 at 7:13 pm by Periwinkle, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood |
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Ask the Economist
Economist Stephen Levy of Palo Alto will be online live to answer your questions about the economic crisis facing the nation and California and its local impacts.
Levy is d... |
Tyler Hanley |
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on Nov 2, 2008 at 8:48 am by Perspective, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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North Korea
Add the Bush administration’s policy of containment of North Korea’s nuclear testing to the litany of foreign policy debacles. As a nation that has actually exploded nuclear b... |
Jag Singh |
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on Oct 14, 2006 at 1:54 pm by Draw the Line, a resident of Stanford |
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Lebanon
A fact-finding delegation has just completed an initial assessment of the damage inflicted on south Lebanon by Israel. A blizzard of cluster bombs, banned by international law... |
Jag Singh |
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on Oct 6, 2006 at 8:45 am by Boaz, a resident of the Greater Miranda neighborhood |
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Internet house shoppers
For our Spring Real Estate special section, I'd like to include a trend story on people who have begun their house-hunting expeditions by going online. What sites have been mo... |
Carol Blitzer -- Asst. Editor, Palo Alto Weekly |
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on Feb 28, 2007 at 11:38 am by Carol Blitzer -- Asst. Editor, Palo Alto Weekly, a resident of the University South neighborhood |
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ISRAEL
Robert Fisk, the renowned Middle East expert working for the London Independent, accuses Israel of committing the most heinous war crimes. In addition to the saturation cluste... |
Jag Singh |
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on Nov 9, 2006 at 9:12 pm by SkepticAl, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |