Election 2018
Simitian, Siegel won’t back toll hike
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Regional Measure 3, the bridge toll hike on the June ballot that would raise tolls across seven state-owned bridges in the Bay Area, […]
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Controversial housing bill SB827 dies in committee, would have bypassed city ordinances
A controversial state senate bill that would have increased housing near public transit by allowing larger buildings that would have violated city ordinances won’t move forward this year after it […]
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Earthquake strikes during thunder and lightning
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer As thunder and lightning rumbled through the mid-Peninsula, an earthquake struck the South Bay at 9:39 a.m. Monday. It wasn’t a big one […]
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Housing bill amended to reduce maximum heights of buildings from 85 feet to 55 feet
From staff and wire reports The author of a bill in the Legislature that would have allowed 85-foot tall apartment buildings on El Camino Real reduced the maximum height in […]
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Local politicians visit China; mayor felt he was used as ‘window dressing’
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel said he felt that he and other local officials were used as “window dressing” during a trip to […]
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Pick up today’s 72-page Daily Post
In today’s edition: A Mountain View rent control board member is accused of conflict of interest; A local family bought a piglet and thought it wouldn’t get bigger; A Palo […]
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Ethics investigations of two local political figures taking an unusual amount of time
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The state agency that fines politicians for ethics violations has been investigating Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss and Redwood City Councilman Jeff Gee […]
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Man arrested on suspicion of threatening Speier’s staff
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Deputies have arrested a man who left 12 threatening voicemails at Congresswoman Jackie Speier’s San Mateo office including one in which he promised […]
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YouTube shooter angry company had stopped paying her for videos
Update 10:20 p.m. — The father of a woman suspected of shooting three people at YouTube’s headquarters says she was angry at the company because it stopped paying her for […]
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Woman wounds 3 at YouTube in San Bruno before killing herself
Correction: Police Chief Ed Barberini initially said there were four shooting victims but later clarified that a fourth person suffered an ankle injury. This story has been updated to reflect […]
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Mid-Peninsula residents’ top concerns: Housing, traffic, regulating commercial development
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Creating affordable housing, reducing traffic congestion and regulating commercial development are the three top issues for residents across the mid-Peninsula, according to a series […]
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Arrest in white powder scare
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A man accused of sending letters with white powder to five people, including Donald Trump Jr. and Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, was […]
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Gas station, hotel are latest local targets of frequent ADA litigant
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A man behind hundreds of Americans with Disabilities lawsuits has filed cases against two more businesses — a gas station in Menlo Park […]
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Housing bill could result in 85-foot tall buildings on El Camino
Published in the Daily Post on Feb. 12, 2018. Follow-up story appears below. BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent A bill introduced in the California Legislature would ease restrictions on […]
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Local entrepreneur who almost won Assembly seat drops Republican label for statewide bid
From staff and wire reports Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Poizner, who came within 5,800 votes of representing Palo Alto and the mid-Peninsula in the state Assembly in 2004, has ditched […]
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High cost of living is driving out locals — families are being crushed
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY and EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writers Terri McKinsey, a Palo Alto High School grad, bought the house where she raised her family on Sierra Court — […]
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Preventing another flood has been a long, frustrating process — Part 2 on the 1998 Flood
LAST IN A TWO-PART SERIES BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Two decades after a flood forced 500 residents to evacuate their homes in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto […]
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Storm, high tide combined to create a disaster 20 years ago — Part 1
UNDER WATER — Residents of an East Palo Alto apartment complex succeed in pulling this car out of a flooded carport in the 1998 flood. The image is from a […]
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Timeline of what’s happened since the 1998 flood
By the Daily Post staff Feb. 3, 1998 — Fierce rains and high tides combined to make San Francisquito Creek overflow its banks at 1 a.m., inundating houses, cars and […]
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Local cities rack up hefty surpluses
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post correspondent When the city of East Palo Alto posted an $18.8 million budget surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, the city finance […]