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On Deadline blog: Jim Keene feels the pain of spillover parking, or at least knows its impacts
City Manager James Keene feels the pain of "spillover" (or "overflow") parking from downtown Palo Alto.
Or at least he sees its impacts on a daily basis: He resides in "Down... |
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on Jan 24, 2013 at 4:21 pm by paly parent, a resident of the Embarcadero Oaks/Leland neighborhood |
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On Deadline: What would be YOUR top 10 local news stories -- over 50 years?
First of three columns/blogs on my Top 10 choices.
I was at a bit of a loss about what to talk about when I was invited recently to speak at the Palo Alto Rotary Club fol... |
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on Mar 10, 2011 at 6:43 pm by Janice, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Could a quake/tsunami hit Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park? You bet
In the shadow of the double-whammy disaster in Japan (assuming nuclear meltdown doesn't make it a triple) the inevitable question is: Can it happen here?
Well, sure.
I... |
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on Mar 24, 2011 at 7:20 pm by Waves, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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ON DEADLINE: Mayor Yeh: Another soft-spoken big-challenges year for Palo Alto
Palo Alto will speak softly but face big-stick challenges in 2012 as new Mayor Yiaway Yeh puts his stamp on city policies, practices and politics. He is expected to echo 2011 ... |
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on Jan 20, 2012 at 2:46 pm by Howard, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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On Deadline blog: Ellen Fletcher's lesson for all politicians -- local or not
Before the late Ellen Fletcher pedals off to fade into history and anecdote there's a lesson she provided that politicians -- local or national and in between -- might take to... |
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on Nov 30, 2012 at 9:30 pm by Tim Oey, a resident of another community |
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On Deadline blog: Fairmeadow tree doomed by careless digging, tight design -- but triggers new policy
The abrupt removal of a twin-trunk redwood tree at Fairmeadow Elementary School during spring break in early April is generating a new Palo Alto Unified School District admini... |
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on Apr 27, 2012 at 3:24 pm by fairmeadow parent, a resident of the Fairmeadow neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Global Community disappears from Palo Alto
A major component of the Palo Alto area’s history for more than a half century came to an end on New Year’s Eve when the Foundation for Global Community officially dissolved i... |
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on Mar 4, 2011 at 6:26 pm by John, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
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On Deadline: There are many ways to feel 'connected' in school, not all positive
Over the years I have made it a practice to ask adults -- most of them more or less successful in their lives -- if they were straight-A students in high school.
Most just l... |
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on Jul 5, 2011 at 2:25 am by Mr. B, a resident of Menlo Park |
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On Deadline: Citizen watchdogs dig out another 'confidentiality' secret -- but such things go w-a-a-y back
The practice of public administrators sharing "confidential" information with their elected bosses while keeping it from the public has surfaced, with the discovery of numerou... |
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on May 18, 2012 at 2:29 pm by svatoid, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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'World Press Freedom Day' needs courageous journalism, at home and abroad
Thursday, May 3, was designated as "World Press Freedom Day" today (April 30) by the California Legislature, echoing a 1993 action by the United Nations.
But in a world wh... |
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on May 11, 2012 at 5:36 pm by svatoid, a resident of the Charleston Gardens neighborhood |
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On Deadline: For Palo Alto school officials, transparency is as transparency does
Palo Alto school officials right now are wrestling with the question of what constitutes "transparency" -- including whether a series of private memos between the Superintend... |
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on Jun 9, 2012 at 7:43 am by Wayne Martin, a resident of the Fairmeadow neighborhood |
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On Deadline: It's name-calling, fact-enhancing compost season in Palo Alto
When the City Council officially set a special election for next November on the future of a corner of Palo Alto's baylands last week it opened the season of pre-election name... |
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on Mar 30, 2011 at 8:12 pm by Parent, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Cooley Landing at last is about to become a jewel of a park
(Photo -- left to right: Elizabeth Jackson, Shannon Alford, Ruben Abrica, Ashlie Simpson.)
By summer 2012 a new bayfront park will begin to emerge in the Midpeninsula: Cool... |
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on Mar 26, 2011 at 12:25 pm by beautiful park, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Will huge new bicycle plan generate enthusiasm or a revolution?
The single biggest "citizen revolt" in Palo Alto's history wasn't over growth rates, the baylands, crime, even traffic.
It was over bicycles.
Specifically, the resident re... |
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on Aug 17, 2012 at 10:35 pm by Gunn Class of '67, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
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On Deadline, Part the Third: Now for the Top Three of my Top 10 stories
(Continued from Friday, March 11, column/blog.)
My Number 3 top news story: In mid-1966 I was reassigned from the Mountain View bureau of the Times to one of the main "beat... |
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on Mar 16, 2011 at 8:43 am by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus |
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On Deadline: Is 'cheating' ingrained in our schools, or society?
Last weekend hundreds of thousands of American high school seniors -- and some from other nations -- sat down nervously to take the SAT test, that fateful measure of scholasti... |
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on Oct 21, 2011 at 9:11 am by Nayeli, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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On Deadline: 'Sim City' computer game not enough? Try 'Sim Bay Area'
There's a computer game called "Sim City" -- that's with an M, not an N, although the latter might make it even more interesting for some.
Anyone who has spent time with t... |
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on Apr 8, 2011 at 6:18 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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On Deadline blog: Will cities get a voice in high-speed-rail debate? Or just have to keep shouting?
The long-awaited final report giving a "new vision" for the proposed high-speed-rail system for California will become public within the next week or two, unless there is some... |
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on Mar 27, 2012 at 11:36 pm by Evan, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Palo Alto's 'UN store' struggling to survive in a new world
The diminutive United Nations Association store -- a landmark in downtown Palo Alto for more than a third of a century -- is struggling for survival against changes in shoppin... |
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on May 21, 2011 at 8:24 am by Perspective, a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
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On Deadline blog: Major high-speed rail hearing Tuesday night -- who will come?
A major state Senate public hearing has been scheduled next Tuesday evening to hear about possible new directions for high-speed rail in California -- directions that could re... |
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on Mar 11, 2012 at 8:06 am by common sense, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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On Deadline blog: 'Cal Ave' cost overruns may echo past, present and future city projects
The news that the California Avenue beautification project is exploding in its costs should not be a surprise to anyone even a bit familiar with Palo Alto projects -- of the p... |
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on Feb 19, 2013 at 9:45 am by pat, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Audrey Rust never planned on a career saving open spaces
There's something about open land that draws one in, almost like a vacuum.
But when one experiences the spaces along Skyline Ridge, the lower foothills, the baylands and th... |
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on Mar 8, 2011 at 5:28 pm by musical, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
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Lessons Mary Fortney taught me about living one's life
Lessons Mary Fortney taught me years ago came to mind on learning of her recent death, following a period of health problems and increasing frailty.
She was for many years... |
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on Feb 14, 2011 at 4:40 pm by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus |
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Dr. Walter Bortz -- health care visionary or a Dr. Quixote?
On a spring day in early 1982, I bumped into Dr. Walter M. Bortz, II, a longtime Palo Alto area geriatrician, outside the former Palo Alto Medical Foundation/Clinic building a... |
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on Feb 14, 2011 at 11:15 am by More choice, not less., a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Local question -- Was 'Hurricane Irene' news coverage overblown, so to speak?
After watching some days of Weather Channel and other news coverage of Hurricane Irene I found myself wondering, as a journalist, whether the newspeople along the way were doi... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 2:27 am by Alice Schaffer Smith, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood |
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