Palo Alto
Playground fight become subject of legal claim
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer How litigious is Palo Alto? A fight on a kindergarten playground that resulted in stitches for one child has blossomed into a full-fledged […]
Month: February 2021
Opinion
Opinion: Encryption isn’t a ‘mandate,’ it’s a choice
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The dispute over the decision by Palo Alto, Mountain View and Los Altos to encrypt their police radio frequencies may just boil down to […]
Menlo Park
City to switch legal firms
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A split Menlo Park City Council has told the city manager to hire a new legal firm to represent the city. The council […]
Palo Alto
UPDATE: PG&E drops plans to seize part of Cubberley parking lot
STORIES BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Update: Saturday, Feb. 13: Palo Alto school district leaders prevailed yesterday (Feb 12) when PG&E dropped plans to seize part of the […]
In the news
People under 65 with Type 2 diabetes, severe obesity or other conditions can get Covid shots starting March 15
People under 65 with severe health conditions including Type 2 diabetes or severe obesity can get a Covid vaccination starting March 15, the state Department of Health announced today (Feb. […]
Palo Alto
Driver of truck that hit school bus didn’t have a license
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer An unlicensed driver behind the wheel of a dump truck ran a red light and T-boned a Palo Alto school bus carrying seven […]
Santa Clara County
County’s poet laureate offers class for teens that provides relief from pandemic stress
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Today (Feb. 12) is the last day for teenage poets to sign up for a free poetry writing workshop offered online by Santa […]
Palo Alto
State agency fines Kniss, DuBois; Kou under investigation; Complaint names Greer
BY EMILY MIBACH AND KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writers The state Fair Political Practices Commission has fined former Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss and current Mayor Tom DuBois for […]
Santa Clara County
Sen. Becker wants teachers vaccinated quickly
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer State Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, said he wants to get Covid vaccines to teachers in the next few weeks, while Gov. Gavin […]
Palo Alto
Grades 7-12 could return to school in March
This was first published in the Saturday, Feb. 6, print edition of the Daily Post. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Daily Post in the […]
Santa Clara County
Indoor church services are banned again in Santa Clara County
By the Daily Post staff Once again, indoor church services are banned in Santa Clara County. The county had originally banned indoor church services to prevent the spread of Covid-19. […]
Palo Alto
Gunman robs 76 station
By the Daily Post staff A man with a gun held up the 76 gas station at E. Charleston and San Antonio roads and is at large today. On Tuesday […]
Obituaries
Harriet Pedersen
September 1, 1920 – September 11, 2020 Harriet Pedersen, a resident of Palo Alto for 62 years, died peacefully only 10 days after celebrating her 100th birthday! Born in Montevideo, […]
Obituaries
George Chandler Pitt, Jr.
March 21, 1942 – January 12, 2021 Affectionately known to some as “Georgie”. Passed away peacefully at his home in Mountain View after a well fought battle with cancer. Born […]
Santa Clara County
African Covid mutation found here
Genomics researchers at Stanford have confirmed California’s first two cases of the South African coronavirus mutation in Alameda and Santa Clara counties, Gov. Gavin Newsom said today. The 501Y.V2 variant […]
Redwood City
Lucile Packard pediatrician arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct
This story first appeared in this morning’s Daily Post. To get the local news first, pick up the Post in the morning at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily […]
Redwood City
Sexually violent predator’s move to Redwood City canceled
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer UPDATE, 7 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 10 — The owner of the Redwood City home who was planning to rent a room to a […]
Palo Alto
Council hears proposals for 400 homes in two developments
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto’s pro-housing advocates and Residentialists faced off last night (Feb. 8) to offer their opinions about two proposed housing developments that, if […]
San Mateo County
UPDATED: Chancellor emeritus Galatolo fired, allegedly took gifts from contractors
By the Daily Post staff UPDATE, 10 p.m., Monday — The San Mateo County Community College District Board fired chancellor emeritus Ron Galatolo after learning that he was receiving concert […]
Santa Clara County
After court steps in, county does a 180 and allows churches to partially reopen
By the Daily Post staff Santa Clara County officials, who had refused to allow churches to reopen for indoor services despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, relented tonight and allowed […]
Opinion
Opinion: Police aren’t required to encrypt their radios
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The dispute over the decision by Palo Alto, Mountain View and Los Altos to encrypt their police radio frequencies may just boil down […]
Belmont
Bank robbery suspect arrested
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The efforts of several police departments have led to the arrest of a man suspected of robbing a bank in Belmont, police said […]
Palo Alto
San Mateo County cops want Covid shots
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The San Mateo County Police Chiefs and Sheriff Association is asking the county’s public health department to step up its Covid vaccinations of […]
Los Altos
Trash containers set ablaze in Los Altos
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer One ore more arsonists set fire to a wooden dumpster and three trash cans on two different days at two separate locations in […]
Stanford
George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, dead at 100
Former Secretary of State George Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union […]
Santa Clara County
County contends U.S. Supreme Court ruling doesn’t stop their ban on church services
From staff and wire reports The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that California can’t bar indoor church services because of the pandemic, but Santa Clara County officials say the ruling […]
Opinion
Opinion: Reopening schools isn’t as easy as it might sound
This was originally published on Jan. 25 in the Daily Post. BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Last week I wrote about the irony that scientists could produce a Covid […]
Stanford
FEMA gives Stanford $16.8 million to distribute vaccines
By the Daily Post staff Stanford Health Care will get $16.8 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to distribute vaccines at six locations in the Bay Area, FEMA announced […]
Santa Clara County
Levi’s Stadium to become a mass vaccination site
The largest Covid vaccination site in the state will open next week at the 49ers Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, officials said today. The move is ironic in that the […]
Santa Clara County
County will now vaccinate anyone over 65 regardless of their health care provider
By the Daily Post staff Santa Clara County announced this morning that anybody over 65 can get a Covid vaccination through the county regardless of their health care provider or […]
Santa Clara County
Residents tell Simitian they’re frustrated over the slow rollout of vaccines
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Seven weeks after the FDA granted emergency authorization to the first Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S., Santa Clara County residents are growing increasingly anxious […]
Palo Alto
State pulls liquor license of Ernie’s Liquors
This story was originally published in this morning’s print edition of the Daily Post. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at […]
Opinion
Opinion: County shouldn’t keep Covid death statistics a secret
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor San Mateo County’s leaders have made little progress in stemming the spread of Covid-19 in East Palo Alto and North Fair Oaks, with […]
Santa Clara County
Man accused of ramming pedestrians to appear in court
By the Daily Post staff An Iraq War veteran who is accused of deliberately driving into a group of pedestrians in Sunnyvale because he thought they were Muslim will appear […]
Palo Alto
Council approves new police station
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (Feb. 1) voted to start construction of a $118 million police building, although Vice Mayor Pat Burt and […]