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Month: January 2019

Menlo Park

Ordinance limiting rent hikes is mysteriously pulled from council agenda

January 31, 2019 4:38 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Why a controversial ordinance on rent increases was pulled before the Menlo Park City Council meeting is unclear, but it might be because […]

Opinion

Opinion: School district pays out $190,000 based on a verbal claim

January 31, 2019 7:09 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I was surprised the Palo Alto Unified School District paid a student’s family $190,000 to settle a claim, although no written claim was […]

Opinion

Opinion: Midpen’s new offices are a $50 million boondoggle

January 30, 2019 6:08 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District doesn’t get much scrutiny. It’s the ultimate of sacred cows around here. The district was formed in […]

East Palo Alto

Masseur guilty of sex assaults

January 30, 2019 5:47 pm

The following story was printed in this morning’s (Jan. 30) Daily Post. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer An East Palo Alto man who sexually assaulted some 22 women […]

Palo Alto

Webster Wood residents hit with shocking rent increase

January 30, 2019 4:00 pm

The following story was printed in this morning’s (Jan. 30) Daily Post. By ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer After 41 years of renting a three-bedroom apartment in a Section […]

San Carlos

City looks to outlaw Juul sales

January 30, 2019 1:52 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer San Carlos may soon ban e-cigarettes such as Juul, which adults use to quit smoking but kids are buying to get a nicotine […]

Palo Alto

City backs plan to help Midpeninsula Media Center

January 30, 2019 1:14 pm

The following story was printed in Tuesday’s (Jan. 29) Daily Post. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A proposal that should help fund the Midpeninsula Media Center with fees […]

Palo Alto

Man arrested for burglary of historic Squire House

January 29, 2019 6:49 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Police last night (Jan. 29) arrested a shirtless man on suspicion of burglary at the historic Squire House in Palo Alto’s Crescent Park […]

Mountain View

Pedestrian killed on El Camino

January 28, 2019 10:54 pm

By the Daily Post staff A pedestrian was killed by a car tonight (Jan. 28) on El Camino Real in Mountain View, police said. Police were called at 8:49 p.m. […]

Palo Alto

Council tonight (Jan. 28) to discuss easing density restrictions to spur housing

January 28, 2019 4:42 pm

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Allowing rooftop decks to fulfill open-space requirements for new housing projects and easing density restrictions are potential strategies to encourage housing production that the […]

In the news

Guardino forum emphasizes denser housing, less local control

January 27, 2019 12:53 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer With state Sen. Scott Wiener front and center, tech lobbyist Carl Guardino’s event on the Bay Area housing crisis yesterday (Jan. 25) championed […]

San Carlos

City looks to ban flavored tobacco, menthol cigs, smoking in apartments

January 27, 2019 10:54 am

By the Daily Post staff The San Carlos City Council on Monday (Jan. 28) will discuss whether the city should ban flavored tobacco sales and smoking in apartment buildings. A […]

Mountain View

School district considering budget cuts

January 27, 2019 10:05 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Mountain View Whisman School District is preparing to cut costs after teacher raises, employee benefits and an expanded summer program threatened to […]

Caltrain

Council reduces rail crossing options, tunnel still alive

January 27, 2019 10:01 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The idea of putting Caltrain in a tunnel in Palo Alto is still alive. City Council on Tuesday (Jan. 22) rejected Ed Shikada’s […]

Stanford

Woman reports sexual assault at Stanford

January 27, 2019 7:47 am

By the Daily Post staff A woman at Stanford reported to police that she was sexually assaulted on campus by a man she knows. She said that at about 1 […]

Judge Luckey
Palo Alto

City employee’s race bias suit yields $55,000

January 26, 2019 7:31 am

This story was originally printed Wednesday, Jan. 23, in the Daily Post. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The managing artistic director of the Palo Alto Children’s Theater has […]

Palo Alto

Midpen open space board worried about public’s reaction to $50 million office plan

January 26, 2019 1:54 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer In the wake of a Daily Post report that the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District is quietly planning to spend $50 million on […]

Palo Alto

City may buy community access TV station’s building

January 25, 2019 3:44 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto city leaders on Monday will consider buying the 9,700-square-foot building where the Midpeninsula Media Center is located at 900 San Antonio […]

Burlingame

An unusual number of small pythons turned over to humane society

January 25, 2019 2:29 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer An unprecedented number of ball pythons have been surrendered to the Peninsula Humane Society, which is looking for people to adopt the snakes. […]

In the news

Businesses, philanthropists to raise $500 million for housing

January 25, 2019 8:04 am

By the Daily Post staff Major employers and philanthropists in the Bay Area — including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — announced yesterday (Jan. 24) that they plan to raise $500 […]

Palo Alto

Police looking for man who attempted to rob pedestrian

January 24, 2019 2:31 pm

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police today are looking for the man who tried to rob a pedestrian in the 200 block of Leland Avenue. Police call it […]

Santa Clara County

VTA tax survives court challenge; state supreme court won’t hear appeal

January 23, 2019 6:56 pm

By the Daily Post staff The California Supreme Court today (Jan. 23) refused to hear an appeal of a case challenging VTA’s Measure B from 2016, which means the transit […]

Mountain View

Mountain View acquiring property for a reversible bus lane on N. Shoreline Blvd.

January 23, 2019 6:09 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Mountain View is preparing to buy seven 8-foot slices of land along N. Shoreline Boulevard in order to make room […]

Palo Alto

Police arrest suspected Barron Park prowler on several charges

January 23, 2019 6:03 pm

By the Daily Post staff An alert resident in the 3000 block of La Calle Court in Palo Alto’s Barron Park neighborhood saw a man prowling in her yard and […]

Palo Alto

Same burglars hit home twice — one armed with a rifle

January 23, 2019 5:48 pm

Police are searching for armed burglary suspects who may have attempted to steal items from the same Palo Alto home twice in the last two months. The most recent burglary […]

Redwood City

Car slams into pet food store

January 22, 2019 4:28 pm

By the Daily Post staff As if Mondays were not bad enough, employees at Pet Food Express at Sequoia Station in Redwood City had to clean up spilled pet food […]

Los Altos

Fire strikes Los Altos home

January 21, 2019 2:12 pm

Fire officials are investigating the cause of a fire that damaged the upper portion of a home in Los Altos early this morning (Jan. 21). The blaze was first reported […]

Obituaries

Saisie Hibbard Pratt

January 21, 2019 8:46 am

August 17, 1919 – December 31, 2018 Saisie Pratt, a long time resident of Palo Alto, CA passed away on December 31, 2108 at the age of 99. A memorial […]

Woodside

Sheriff says woman live-streamed burglary of Woodside home, stripped to her underwear

January 20, 2019 8:22 pm

An East Palo Alto woman is in jail after walking into an apparent stranger’s house in Woodside today (Jan. 20) afternoon and live-streaming a rant on social media before stripping […]

Palo Alto High School
Palo Alto

More information about the $190,000 the school district paid to settle claim over sex assault

January 20, 2019 6:05 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school district has settled with a former Palo Alto High School student for allegedly mishandling her complaint that a classmate […]

In the news

Local events planned for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 20, 2019 2:07 pm

By the Daily Post staff A number of events are planned locally for Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 21), which this year commemorates what would have been the civil […]

Redwood City

Six marijuana distributors seek city permits — four would be near the CHP

January 20, 2019 1:58 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Redwood City officials, who originally refused to release the applications of companies that wanted to open marijuana-related businesses, yesterday backtracked and gave the […]

In the news

Regional housing agency that will push rent control moves ahead

January 20, 2019 1:47 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A group of officials from the nine-county Bay Area have signed off on a plan to start a regional agency to build housing […]

Menlo Park

Another crash at troubled rail crossing

January 20, 2019 1:44 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park’s Ravenswood Avenue train crossing is once again an accident scene — just three days after City Council decided how it wanted […]

Burma Ruby on University Avenue in Palo Alto. Photo from Google Streetview
Belmont

Rangoon Ruby and Burma Ruby settle labor complaint by paying workers $4 million

January 20, 2019 10:19 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Rangoon Ruby and Burma Ruby — a restaurant chain with locations in Palo Alto, Stanford, San Carlos, Belmont and Burlingame — will have […]

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