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Council votes to cap office space growth
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted last night (April 30) to cap office development in three parts of town to 50,000 square feet per […]
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Council to vote on locking in office space development restrictions
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council on Monday (April 30) will be discussing whether to permanently limit office development in some parts of town to […]
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Planning commissioners get snippy during meeting on mother-in-law units
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A nearly three-hour Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission discussion last night about the construction of in-law units yielded minor changes to a […]
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City to measure street traffic by tracking cellphones
This story was originally published in the Daily Post on April 9. BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The city of Palo Alto is implementing a new technology that will […]
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Trial set in racial discrimination suit brought by Children’s Theater artistic director
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A racial discrimination suit filed against the city by Palo Alto Children’s Theater Managing Artistic Director Judge Luckey is headed to trial in […]
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New police chief focused on recruiting
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer In a longstanding struggle to hire qualified recruits, Palo Alto police are still down 12 officers — but Chief Bob Jonsen has a […]
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Palo Alto school board may seek bond issue this fall
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer After two tumultuous years in the Palo Alto school district, the board on Tuesday (April 24) will consider spending $30,000 to research the […]
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City settles suit over attack by police dog for $250,000
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto has agreed to pay $250,000 to the black Palo Alto High School senior who was mauled by a […]
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Planning Commission to consider overhaul of Guild
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park Planning Commission on Monday (April 23) will review plans to transform the 94-year-old Guild Theater from a single-screen movie theater […]
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City planning director resigns to join consulting firm
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Planning Director Hillary Gitelman is leaving the city after four years for a San Francisco consulting firm, joining the ranks of […]
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Superintendent names new acting principal for Palo Alto High School
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Adam Paulson, one of the Palo Alto High School assistant principals criticized for mishandling a sexual assault investigation last year, has been named […]
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Palo Alto considering soda tax to discourage sugar consumption
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto is considering whether to follow the lead of Berkeley, Seattle and San Francisco and slap a 12-cent per can tax on […]
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List of school superintendent hopefuls narrowed down to three
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school board has narrowed its list of superintendent candidates down to three, but hasn’t made a final decision a week […]
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Supervisor questions whether building housing for teachers makes sense
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Santa Clara County pledged $6 million yesterday (April 17) to build between 60 and 120 apartments for teachers on a plot of county-owned […]
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Channel 7 reporter hired as Palo Alto police spokeswoman
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Channel 7 reporter Janine De la Vega is leaving broadcast news to become the first civilian public affairs manager of the Palo Alto […]
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Poll finds anemic support for new taxes, growing number say city is on the wrong track
By the Daily Post staff A pollster hired by the city has found that Palo Altans won’t support a parcel tax or a sales tax to fund the city’s infrastructure, […]
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First Baptist wins round in battle to rent space
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Despite months of complaints by neighbors over noise, traffic and parking problems at the First Baptist Church of Palo Alto, the city’s Planning […]
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Man dressed like construction worker robs downtown Palo Alto bank
By the Daily Post staff A gunman dressed like a construction worker robbed the Comerica Bank at 250 Lytton Ave. in downtown Palo Alto today (April 13), police said. The […]
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Palo Alto’s Cheesecake Factory will close May 26
By the Daily Post staff The Cheesecake Factory is closing its doors after almost 14 years of serving up generous portions of food in downtown Palo Alto next month, leaving […]
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High school publication’s ‘bullet hole’ edition draws national attention
By the Daily Post staff The Palo Alto High School student magazine Verde is drawing national attention for the unique way it chose to call attention to gun violence in […]