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Month: July 2018

This roundabout at Ross Road and E. Meadow Drive has come under fire, with some saying it creates dangerous interactions between cars and bicycles. Post photo.
Palo Alto

The new roundabout isn’t going anywhere, get used to it

July 31, 2018 7:14 pm

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent While the city of Palo Alto seems to be telling residents to live with a controversial set of street modifications on Ross Road including […]

Opinion

Opinion: Questions incumbents should ask themselves — and ideas for first-time candidates

July 31, 2018 11:51 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you’re an incumbent council member in the mid-Peninsula and you’re thinking about running for another four-year term, ask yourself some questions. • […]

Palo Alto City Councilman Cory Wolbach
Palo Alto

With Wolbach as the swing vote, council imposes office development cap

July 30, 2018 10:30 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A citizens initiative to halve office development in Palo Alto was made law tonight (June 30) — a surprise win for the slow-growth […]

Palo Alto City Councilman Cory Wolbach
Palo Alto

Wolbach switches sides, council decides to cap office growth

July 30, 2018 10:23 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A citizens initiative to halve office development in Palo Alto was made law tonight (July 30) — a surprise win for the slow-growth […]

Thomas Joseph Waddell, 56
Redwood City

Alleged rock-in-a-sock attack may lead to prison

July 30, 2018 6:01 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Redwood City man is facing his third strike and possibly 25 years to life in prison after he randomly attacked a man […]

Mountain View

City aims to quash sex harassment suit against police chief

July 30, 2018 5:55 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Mountain View has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by a police dispatcher who claims she was […]

Santa Clara County

Deputy sheriffs union president resigns over racist, sexist texts

July 30, 2018 8:05 am

The president of the Santa Clara County Deputy Sheriff’s Association has resigned following allegations that he sent racist and sexist text messages to other law enforcement officials over the last […]

The Caffino drive-thru at 2797 El Camino Real in Redwood City. Google Streetview photo.
North Fair Oaks

Baristas in bikinis and lingerie to serve customers at new coffee shop

July 29, 2018 1:46 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Baristas wearing bikinis and lingerie could soon be serving up drinks such as a “Wet Kiss Mocha” and “Bootycall” in North Fair Oaks. […]

Menlo Park

Ron Shepherd pulls papers to run against Peter Ohtaki

July 29, 2018 1:30 pm

Correction: The printed version of this story incorrectly stated that Shepherd wasn’t concerned about the city spending $30 million on a new library. He is concerned about it, and his […]

Drew Combs
Menlo Park

Drew Combs to take on Kirsten Keith for City Council

July 28, 2018 3:54 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Drew Combs, a Menlo Park Planning Commissioner who nearly won a seat on City Council four years ago, told the Post yesterday that […]

Palo Alto

Council to tackle idling vehicles — growth cap, hotel tax also on Monday’s agenda

July 28, 2018 3:50 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council is returning from summer vacation Monday (July 30) to consider a ban on vehicle idling and two items for […]

Palo Alto

4 council members want more tenant protections, but they stop short of rent control

July 27, 2018 3:43 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Four Palo Alto City Council members are proposing to impose stronger penalties for landlords who don’t offer yearlong leases. They also want to […]

Redwood City

Council to ask voters to raise sales tax to fund pensions

July 27, 2018 1:52 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Redwood City Council decided last night to ask voters in November to increase the sales tax a half-cent to cover spiraling pension costs […]

Opinion

Opinion: City has lots of money but wants more

July 27, 2018 10:54 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The city government in Redwood City had a surplus of $26 million for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2017, and $31 […]

Mountain View police
Mountain View

Transient attempts to kidnap toddler at park, police say

July 26, 2018 9:37 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Police in Mountain View arrested a masked transient early yesterday morning after she allegedly tried to kidnap a toddler at Fairmont Park off […]

Palo Alto

Burglars throw hundreds of coins on Embarcadero Road after ransacking T&C store

July 26, 2018 3:50 pm

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police interrupted a nighttime burglary at a coin store in the Town & Country Village Shopping Center, arresting two men but two others […]

Palo Alto

‘Active shooter’ alert at VA was a false alarm

July 26, 2018 2:15 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The VA hospital in Palo Alto was briefly locked down yesterday morning after federal police received a false report of an active shooter, […]

Redwood City

Mount Carmel neighborhood asks for protections from teardowns

July 26, 2018 1:23 am

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Residents in Redwood City’s Mount Carmel area — which covers a wide swath of the city — are asking City Council to protect the […]

Los Altos

Home burglars kicking in doors in Los Altos

July 26, 2018 1:00 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Burglars kicked in the doors of three nearby homes in Los Altos in a single day, weeks after two other unsolved home burglaries […]

Palo Alto

Robbers hit both Lululemon stores in Palo Alto in 20 minute span

July 24, 2018 3:08 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Three women carrying large bags managed to rob both Lululemon Athletica stores in Palo Alto about 20 minutes apart, stealing a total of […]

Santa Clara County

Turner only committed ‘sexual outercourse,’ his attorney tells appeals court

July 24, 2018 12:04 am

The attorney for a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assaulting a female student in 2016 argued this morning (July 24) in an appeal of the jury’s verdict that it […]

Palo Alto

Palo Alto raises police pay but recruiting is rough — even with 25K signing bonus

July 23, 2018 2:27 pm

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Palo Alto city officials are hoping a series of pay raises for police officers over the next three years, starting with a nearly 5% […]

San Mateo County

Supervisor cries foul over push for toll lanes on 101 when regular carpool lanes aren’t being considered

July 23, 2018 2:23 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer After bridge toll hikes, the state’s 12-cent-a-gallon gas tax hike and a potential SamTrans half-cent sales tax measure, drivers may have to pay […]

San Mateo County

Opinion: Proposed San Mateo County transportation tax misses the mark

July 23, 2018 11:33 am

Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Every election it seems we get another ballot measure to increase taxes for transportation. Voters almost always approve these measures, yet traffic never […]

Opinion

Opinion: Ignore magical thinking when it comes to Stanford housing

July 23, 2018 11:27 am

Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor When developers want to get a project approved, they often become clever if they’re forced to answer basic questions. Such is the case […]

San Mateo County

Marijuana not yet part of the county’s agricultural scene

July 22, 2018 2:32 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer If you’re looking to buy weed grown in San Mateo County or may be hoping to buy a “starter” plant, it turns out […]

The Hotel President at 488 University Ave. in Palo Alto. Post photo.
Palo Alto

New owners of Hotel President to fight city’s determination that the building can’t become a hotel again

July 22, 2018 2:27 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The buyers of the Hotel President said yesterday (July 20) that they “disagree” with the city of Palo Alto’s denial of their plans […]

Palo Alto

School board race attracts 2 candidates in their 20s

July 21, 2018 3:38 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The race for two open seats on the Palo Alto school board has two unusually young contenders this year: two school district alumni […]

San Mateo County

Psych exam ordered for accused arsonist who fears zombie apocalypse

July 21, 2018 12:38 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A judge will appoint two doctors to determine whether a woman is competent to stand trial on arson charges after she professed fears […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, right, listen as President Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on June 21, 2018. AP photo.
Palo Alto

Two Trump cabinet members to visit Stanford on Monday, Tuesday

July 21, 2018 9:21 am

By the Daily Post staff Two of President Trump’s cabinet officers, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary James Mattis, are scheduled to be at Stanford on Monday and […]

The Hotel President at 488 University Ave. in Palo Alto. Post photo.
Palo Alto

City blocks conversion of Hotel President, tenants catch a break

July 19, 2018 10:00 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto has told the new owners of the Hotel President that they won’t be allowed to turn the historic […]

Stanford

Nobel Prize-winning Stanford physicist Burton Richter dies

July 19, 2018 9:16 pm

Stanford Professor Emeritus Burton Richter, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics, died Wednesday (July 18) in Palo Alto, the university announced today. He was 87. Richter’s Nobel Prize-winning […]

Palo Alto

Former TV reporter is running for City Council

July 19, 2018 8:05 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A former TV reporter who moved to Palo Alto two years ago has decided to run for City Council, he told the Post […]

Palo Alto

Police arrest 4 in Stanford Shopping Center heists

July 19, 2018 6:11 pm

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police announced today (July 19) they have arrested four suspects in connection with two separate thefts in the last 10 days at Stanford […]

Palo Alto

Signs go up at Terman changing school’s name to Fletcher

July 19, 2018 5:44 pm

By the Daily Post staff The Palo Alto school district has replaced the front metal sign outside Terman Middle School at 655 Arastradero Road to say Ellen Fletcher Middle School […]

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