Belmont
4 cities eye hotel tax increases
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Four mid-Peninsula cities — Palo Alto, San Carlos, Los Altos and Belmont — are planning to ask residents to raise hotel taxes in […]
Year: 2018
Caltrain
Reported rape on Caltrain slips through the cracks
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The Post printed a startling story Wednesday about a Caltrain conductor accused of raping a 22-year-old Mountain View woman in an employees-only area […]
Palo Alto
Music teacher gets a year in jail for sexual relationship with 15-year-old student
This story originally appeared in Saturday’s Daily Post. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A former Palo Alto music teacher has been sentenced to a year in Santa Clara […]
Palo Alto
Special education advocate Stacey Ashlund enters Palo Alto school board race
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A software consultant and special education advocate has set up a Facebook page saying she is running for Palo Alto school board. The […]
Palo Alto
Proposed hotel tax increase negotiated during midnight bargaining session
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Those who stayed up until midnight to watch Palo Alto City Council got to see some real-time deal-making as council negotiated over a […]
Menlo Park
Housing development on east side met with apprehension
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A proposal to add 94 new apartments to Menlo Park’s east side was met with apprehension by neighbors of the project at last […]
Menlo Park
Emergency drill will look like the real thing
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer If you see some arms or a leg sticking out from underneath a car in downtown Menlo Park tomorrow (June 23), don’t be […]
Palo Alto
City close to turning over animal shelter to nonprofit
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Redwood City-based nonprofit Pets in Need is chomping at the bit to take over the city of Palo Alto’s animal shelter, but […]
Caltrain
Caltrain conductor accused of rape
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A 22-year-old Mountain View woman has filed a claim against Caltrain, alleging that a conductor raped her in an employees-only area of the […]
Palo Alto
German president visits Palo Alto, accompanied by CHP officers in bow ties
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A CHP motorcade decked out in blue bow-ties accompanied German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to HanaHaus in downtown Palo Alto yesterday, where he met […]
Menlo Park
Residents of Belle Haven say signs aren’t enough to combat traffic headaches
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park City Council last night (June 19) decided to put up “No Through Traffic” signs in the Belle Haven neighborhood as […]
Palo Alto
‘Digital DNA’ egg sculpture finally removed
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A seven-month standoff between a New York artist and the city of Palo Alto came to an end this morning (June 21) when […]
Belmont
Magee, Measure K win after two weeks of vote counting
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Two close races in the June 5 primary ended yesterday when Nancy Magee won the job of San Mateo County superintendent of education […]
Mountain View
New school namesake criticized for tweet some found to be misleading
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Jose Antonio Vargas, a 37-year-old immigration advocate set to have a school in Mountain View named after him, has come under fire for […]
Santa Clara County
Persky’s lawyer intends to put Dauber in the hot seat
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer An attorney for recalled judge Aaron Persky said last night (June 19) that he intends to question under oath Michele Dauber, the Stanford […]
Palo Alto
Filseth will seek re-election to City Council
By the Daily Post staff Eric Filseth, who was elected to Palo Alto City Council in the Residentialist wave four years ago, announced today (June 20) that he will be […]
Palo Alto
Hotel President tenants ask city for help
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer More than a dozen residents of the historic Hotel President apartments in downtown Palo Alto turned out to City Council on Monday (June […]
Palo Alto
Girl severely injured in accident with car on El Camino
By the Daily Post staff A girl was rushed to a hospital with major injuries Monday (June 180 morning after a car hit her as she rode her bike on […]
Santa Clara County
Dauber seeks attorney’s fees from Judge Persky
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Michele Dauber, the Stanford law professor who led the campaign that removed so-called “Brock Turner judge” Aaron Persky from the Santa Clara County […]
Opinion
Gunn faculty members have starring roles in 1930s madcap comedy ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’
BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic A cranky New York radio host breaks his hip on the ice in small-town Ohio at Christmastime, thus getting stuck in a […]