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PALO ALTO ISSUES
Webcast: Debate over SB 50Palo Alto Vice Mayor Adrian Fine and Greer Stone, vice chair of the Santa Clara County Human Rights Commission, join Weekly...
Original post made on Mar. 30, 2019Last comment by Palo Altans Against Further Development UNITE!, on Mar 30, 2019 at 2:47 pm | 5 comments | 8023 Views
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Bay Area's largest real-estate firm? It's a New York startupCompass, the venture-funded real-estate startup that launched its first office in the local market just over two years ago,...
Original post made on Mar. 22, 2019Last comment by Same Old Story, on Mar 30, 2019 at 8:27 am | 12 comments | 17956 Views
MOVIES
'Dumbo' takes flight under Tim Burton"Dumbo" is a strange beast, indeed. I don't mean the character of an elephant born with ears so big he can flap them and...
Original post made on Mar. 29, 2019Last comment by like, really smart, on Mar 29, 2019 at 2:02 pm | 3 comments | 16480 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Unlicensed East Palo Alto masseur sentenced to 13 yearsA 57-year-old man who pleaded no contest to charges he sexually assaulted women while posing as a massage therapist was sentenced...
Original post made on Mar. 29, 2019Last comment by A Lax Judicial System, on Mar 29, 2019 at 12:25 pm | 2 comments | 7883 Views
AROUND TOWN
Stanford junior dies in fall while hiking in SpainMischa Nee, a 20-year-old Stanford University junior has died in Spain, apparently falling while on a hike with other Stanford...
Original post made on Mar. 29, 2019Last comment by K.S. Milway, on Mar 29, 2019 at 10:36 am | 2 comments | 14265 Views
AROUND TOWN
Around Town<B><B>WHEELING AND DEALING ... </B> A proposal to tear down the building that once housed <B>Ming's Restaurant</B> and to...
Original post made on Mar. 29, 2019There are no comments yet. 4613 Views
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Editorial: The audacity of privilegeSadly, the most frequently heard reaction among local residents last week to the news that 33 parents across the nation,...
Original post made on Mar. 22, 2019Last comment by pearl, on Mar 29, 2019 at 7:02 am | 39 comments | 14022 Views
RESTAURANTS
Shop Talk: Farewell to Milk Pail; hello Curry PizzaIn this week's Shop Talk column, read about the departure of a longtime Mountain View market, a forthcoming downtown Palo...
Original post made on Mar. 22, 2019Last comment by Hunter, on Mar 28, 2019 at 11:37 pm | 29 comments | 10621 Views
AROUND TOWN
Guest Opinion: SB 50 undermines single-family neighborhoods and diversityRather than reap the benefits of locally driven solutions, SB 50 pulls the rug from under them with radical, one-size-fits-all...
Original post made on Mar. 15, 2019Last comment by Oh Really?, on Mar 28, 2019 at 12:29 pm | 153 comments | 31169 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
IRS scams strike again in Palo AltoEach year as the tax deadline looms, scammers dupe unwary residents by claiming to be Internal Revenue Service agents demanding...
Original post made on Mar. 26, 2019Last comment by Mark Weiss, on Mar 28, 2019 at 12:24 pm | 2 comments | 4939 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Community Notebook: Palo Alto invites public to weigh in on rail redesignPalo Alto residents will have a chance to give input Wednesday night on one of the most ambitious projects in the city's...
Original post made on Mar. 27, 2019Last comment by TBM, on Mar 28, 2019 at 4:24 am | 16 comments | 4335 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Ousted superintendent violated harassment policy in comments about employees with childrenAn external investigation found that Gloria Hernandez-Goff, the ousted superintendent of the Ravenswood City School District,...
Original post made on Mar. 25, 2019Last comment by Gina Lied, on Mar 27, 2019 at 8:11 pm | 14 comments | 9358 Views
RESTAURANTS
Stay for the dumplingsA tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurant three doors down from El Camino Real on Broadway Street in Redwood City, i Dumpling serves...
Original post made on Mar. 21, 2019Last comment by calling it out, on Mar 27, 2019 at 7:39 pm | 4 comments | 6460 Views
SPORTS
M-A football coach Ravipati announces he's stepping downMenlo-Atherton football coach Adhir Ravipati announced Thursday he will be stepping down to focus on the next chapter in...
Original post made on Mar. 27, 2019Last comment by Vince, on Mar 27, 2019 at 5:11 pm | 1 comment | 5175 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
What's with the brown water from the faucet?Anyone else have this issue?...
Original post made by Huh? on Mar. 25, 2019Last comment by Poolside In Paradise, on Mar 27, 2019 at 1:38 pm | 6 comments | 1253 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Judge urges school district, parents to resolve sexual-harassment caseA judge said Friday that she needed more time to consider a female Gunn High School student's petition to ban from the school's...
Original post made on Mar. 22, 2019Last comment by Life is A Stage, on Mar 27, 2019 at 12:56 pm | 21 comments | 5394 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
School district to address misreported graduation requirementsThe Palo Alto school district is taking a closer look at how some students have been wrongly classified as not meeting the...
Original post made on Mar. 26, 2019Last comment by me too, on Mar 27, 2019 at 12:30 pm | 18 comments | 8161 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Possible measles exposure hits Palo Alto areaPeople who visited at least six locations in the Palo Alto area may have been exposed to measles, the Santa Clara County...
Original post made on Mar. 26, 2019Last comment by Mama, on Mar 27, 2019 at 10:56 am | 9 comments | 10050 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Palo Alto approaches key decision on grade separationFaced with a series of expensive, complex and, in some cases, deeply unpopular options for redesigning four local rail crossings,...
Original post made on Mar. 14, 2019Last comment by Anon, on Mar 27, 2019 at 10:03 am | 35 comments | 11053 Views
SPORTS
Menlo volleyball coach Paglialunga to coach in ItalyMenlo School girls volleyball coach Marco Paglialunga is leaving the school to coach Italy at the World University Games...
Original post made on Mar. 27, 2019Last comment by LocalFan, on Mar 27, 2019 at 9:40 am | 1 comment | 3971 Views
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