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Disneyland?
We are trying to put together an impromptu trip to Disneyland over the summer for the little ones. What are your tips/tricks to maximizing the experience? What would you never... |
Palo Parent |
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on Jun 15, 2007 at 6:59 pm by Parent, a resident of Another Palo Alto 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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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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Oh My God - I sound just like my mother !!
When we were growing up, like most kids, we *hated* veggies .. our mother used to come up with tricks every other day to make us eat our share of veggies (no, french fries wer... |
OhMyGodIAmMyMother |
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on May 13, 2007 at 9:35 am by Carolyn, a resident of another community |
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Jimmy Carter
President Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and architect of the Camp David Accords, is to be applauded for his moral courage exposing the apartheid policies of Israel. Carte... |
Jag Singh |
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on Dec 7, 2006 at 12:06 pm by Draw the Line, a resident of Stanford |
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Definition of Asian
It has occurred to me recently from reading some of these threads and from elsewhere, that we all define the term "Asian" as something different. For example, is someone from ... |
Curious |
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on Mar 21, 2007 at 9:09 am by Indian, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Three people killed in East Palo Alto
Three people were shot to death Wednesday night as they sat in a parked car in the driveway of a house at 2367 Dumbarton Ave. in East Palo Alto -- the 11th, 12th and 13th homi... |
Editor |
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on Oct 23, 2007 at 10:10 am by William S. Barretta, a resident of East Palo Alto |
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New Dollar Coins - Will we use them
We now have another attempt at getting us to use $ coins instead of bills. Will we do it. I doubt it unless we are forced to.
I remember in Britain when the first Pound coi... |
Interested |
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on May 31, 2007 at 5:36 pm by bruce, a resident of the University South neighborhood |
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Immigration Raids Adversely Affect Children
The recent immigration raids caused enormous trauma for some of the local children whose parents were taken away by immigration authorities. To get some insight into what took... |
Henrietta J. Burroughs |
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on Apr 8, 2007 at 12:14 pm by Henrietta J. Burroughs, a resident of the Charleston Meadows neighborhood |
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Christian Oppression in Bethelehem by Hamas/Fatah
Here is another news story that our Middle Eastern correspondent Jag Singh seems to have missed.
This appeared in today's SF Chronicle:
But for many Christians in Bethle... |
Boaz |
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on Dec 24, 2006 at 2:25 pm by Boaz, a resident of the Greater Miranda neighborhood |
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Baylands still spared from oil spill
Palo Alto's Baylands remains oil free, Senior Ranger Daren Anderson said Wednesday afternoon, minutes after he had completed a six-hour kayak tour of the shore.
Read the full... |
Editor |
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on Nov 13, 2007 at 9:44 pm by joe, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
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It's Been a Good Year for Bush
The surge worked. The economy is good. Congress is blocked.
Web Link
M... |
Gary |
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on Jan 22, 2008 at 11:49 am by Gary, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood |
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Bush's Private Army
Largely ignored in the ongoing debate of planned troop escalation is the role of US private security firms such as Blackwater. Since its founding in 1996, Blackwater has bec... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 27, 2007 at 9:00 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Colonialism and Israel
Prior to the onset of European colonization a century ago, generations of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Palestinians cohabited in the Holy Land with little or no conflict. Zio... |
The Cohen Brother |
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on Jan 26, 2007 at 8:33 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Attention Palo Alto cycling enthusiasts
You are on notice: Los Altos Hills is not your gym. People live there. Yes, the streets are public. That doesn't mean they're your playground, it means they're open to peop... |
Terrified driver |
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on Feb 28, 2009 at 11:56 pm by Outside Observer, a resident of another community |
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Bay Bridge maze replacement
Governor Arnold Swartzeneger April 29, 2007
Caltrans needs to ask the Union Pacific for advice on putting trestles back into service. The record they made in Sacram... |
Walter_E_Wallis |
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on Apr 29, 2007 at 10:36 pm by anon., a resident of the Greater Miranda neighborhood |
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ISRAEL
There has been extremely disturbing reports that Israel has dramatically expanded its ethnically cleansing of the West Bank and Gaza by effectively denying the return of natio... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 29, 2007 at 7:00 am by Batman, a resident of the Southgate neighborhood |
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The Party of Brown Shirts
Neoconservatives have turned the Republican Party into a Brownshirt Party.
Look at the evidence. While real patriots flee the party, the remaining supporters cling to power... |
The Cohen brother |
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on Apr 21, 2007 at 7:33 pm by Draw the Line, a resident of Stanford |
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Al-Qaeda on the run in Iraq?
I didn't notice this on the front page of the papers, so I am posting it for an FYI. Encouraging.
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Draw the Line |
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on May 30, 2007 at 7:18 am by Draw the Line, a resident of Stanford |
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Jimmy Carter
Norman Finkelstein, professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago latest article, titled "The Ludicrous Attacks on Jimmy Carter's Book" (posted on Counterpunc... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 11, 2007 at 7:12 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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East Palo Alto tenants to protest rent increases
Many East Palo Alto apartment tenants, possibly hundreds, have received rent increases of "18 percent, 20 percent or 25 percent" that may violate the city's Rent Stabilization... |
Editor |
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on Dec 19, 2007 at 6:39 am by mean ol\' landlord, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Agony Of Victory
An article in todays Chronicle deals with life after football for the SF 49rs Super Bowl winning roster. Almost all of the players willing to be interviewed suffer from very s... |
green |
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on Jan 23, 2007 at 11:58 pm by SkepticAl, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
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Gerald Ford
It is customary to look favorably on the life of a demised public figure. Thus, the accolades accompanying President Ford come as no surprise. Documents made public after his ... |
Jag Singh |
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on Jan 3, 2007 at 8:25 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Fire at Romic burns worker's ears
The old adage that burning ears mean someone is talking behind one's back took on a new and painful meaning for one employee at Romic Environmental Technologies.
The employee... |
Editor |
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on Oct 3, 2007 at 3:11 pm by Bob Sales, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Horses need to be banned on peninsula trails
I did a couple long runs in Huddart, Phelger and Wunderlich parks this week and almost twisted an ankle a couple times in the hoof shaped mud holes. There are mosquito ridden ... |
Bret |
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on Jan 22, 2007 at 6:06 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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