Menlo Park
City wants to sell land in order to help budget
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park City Council wants to try to sell property it bought last year in order to boost its coffers that have […]
Month: May 2020
In the news
Restaurants given rules for reopening — guests must be screened
The state wants restaurants to screen guests for symptoms, have servers wear masks and keep diners at least 6 feet apart under guidance released today (May 12) to prevent the […]
Palo Alto
City gives details about the closure of residential streets
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto has rolled out its plans to ban cut-through traffic on three neighborhood streets to allow pedestrians more space […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto requires masks, pastor asks for clarification
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer A Palo Alto pastor, who is broadcasting his services over the Internet to observe social distancing, is worried he will have to give […]
Palo Alto
Supporters defend College Terrace library; proposal to cut city’s PR budget goes nowhere
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto residents who live in the College Terrace neighborhood begged the city not to shut down their library for two years at […]
Menlo Park
Menlo Park needs to cut $18 million from budget
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park City Council tonight (May 12) will look at cutting $18.24 million from its budget, including $1.14 million from the administration. Upper […]
San Carlos
San Carlos takes first step toward closing part of Laurel St. to cars
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer San Carlos City Council decided tonight (May 11) to move forward with the idea to close down the first three blocks of Laurel […]
Redwood City
Sequoia Hospital resumes non-conoravirus medical procedures
By the Daily Post staff Sequoia Hospital announced today (May 11) that it is gradually increasing the number of non-coronavirus surgeries again. On March 13, Gov. Gavin Newsom banned what […]
Palo Alto
Ban on developer-friendly parking rule extended for nine months
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (May 11) rejected City Manager Ed Shikada’s advice by extending the city’s ban on downtown developers paying cash […]
Menlo Park
Car bans proposed for Santa Cruz Ave. downtown, Menalto, West Menlo and San Carlos’ Laurel St.
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer City councils in Menlo Park and San Carlos are considering the idea of closing prime downtown streets to cars to allow restaurants to […]
Los Altos
Arrest in Los Altos murder
By the Daily Post staff Los Altos police announced this afternoon that they’ve made an arrest in last Monday’s murder of mason Roberto Mario Rivera in the backyard of a […]
Palo Alto
City Council begins budget hearings — will anybody mention the union pay raises?
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto City Council tonight will hold the first of three evening hearings on cutting as much as $39 million from the city budget, but […]
In the news
Musk reopens Tesla plant, dares authorities to arrest him
Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed today that his electric-car company has restarted its Fremont factory, a move that defied local government orders to contain the coronavirus. In a tweet, Musk […]
Mountain View
Motorcyclist killed on 237 identified
A motorcyclist who died in a late-night crash Highway 237 in Mountain View was identified today by the Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office as 56-year-old San Jose resident Dwight […]
In the news
More charges for ex-cop accused of sex crime
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A former San Mateo police officer who is facing charges in Santa Clara County for trying to set up a date with a […]
Palo Alto
Musk threatens to pull Tesla out of California
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is threatening to move his electric car company — including its headquarters in Palo Alto — to either Texas or Nevada because Alameda County officials won’t […]
Palo Alto
City might bring back developer-friendly parking program
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto might start allowing developers of commercial buildings to write a check to the city if they don’t provide […]
East Palo Alto
Can father and daughter serve on the same elected board?
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The East Palo Alto Sanitary District’s board decided last night (May 7) to hire a lawyer to give them a second opinion about […]
Santa Clara County
Why Santa Clara County waited to recommend masks
By the Daily Post staff Santa Clara County health officials have offered an explanation as to why they delayed their recommendation that residents wear masks or face coverings. On April […]
In the news
Bay Area counties block Newsom’s reopening plan
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attempt to allow some businesses to reopen was blocked on Thursday by health directors in six Bay Area counties — including San Mateo and Santa Clara — […]