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 […]
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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 […]
Mountain View
School to be renamed for Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist and an advocate for undocumented immigrants
This story was originally published in the Post’s print edition on June 9. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Mountain View Whisman school board has voted to name […]
Palo Alto
Track guards to stay longer — cameras not ready yet
By the Daily Post staff It looks like the guards watching the railroad tracks in Palo Alto to prevent suicides will remain longer than originally planned because of “complexities” the […]
Palo Alto
Drew Combs, Menlo Park planning commissioner, considers challenging Kirsten Keith
By the Daily Post staff Drew Combs, a Menlo Park planning commission member who nearly won a seat on City Council four years ago, told the Post last night (June […]
Stanford
Stanford raises housing offer
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Stanford has upped its offer of affordable housing funds to Santa Clara County from $45.5 million to $56 million in exchange for the […]
San Mateo County
Lead changes in San Mateo County school superintendent’s race
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Nancy Magee has taken the lead over Gary Waddell in the race for San Mateo County superintendent of education after she trailed him […]
Belmont
Belmont-Redwood Shores school parcel tax behind by 46 votes
By the Daily Post staff Four mid-Peninsula school districts asked voters for money in the June 5 primary, and all of the measures passed except for one that appears to […]
Palo Alto
City to consider dead-ending Churchill and Palo Alto avenues at the tracks
Correction: The print edition of the Post on Saturday morning incorrectly said that City Council would discuss this proposal on Monday (June 18) night. Actually, the issue is scheduled for […]
San Mateo County
Machine guns turned over to sheriff at gun buyback event
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Thompson Automatic Submachine Gun, an Uzi and an AK-47 were not some of the firearms that Nilu Jenks expected to see when […]
Caltrain
Redwood City lagging behind other cities when it comes to rail bridges
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Redwood City is still working on options to separate train tracks from roads with bridges, lagging behind other mid-Peninsula cities. City and San […]
Palo Alto
City Council members met privately with Hotel President buyers before sale closed
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Executives from the Chicago-based hotel chain buying the residential Hotel President in downtown Palo Alto — booting out the residents of its 75 […]
Facebook
Facebook to use ferries to get employees to work under trial program
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Ferries transported commuters across the Bay long before any of the bridges were built. Now, in a blast from the past, a private […]
Palo Alto
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes indicted on charges of duping investors
Federal grand jury has indicted Elizabeth Holmes on criminal fraud charges for allegedly defrauding investors, doctors and patients as the head of Palo Alto-based blood-testing startup Theranos. The U.S. Attorney’s […]
Palo Alto
Read the note suspect in jogger sex assault wrote to victim
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A man facing life in prison for sexually assaulting a teenage jogger near Stanford Research Park admitted to police that he wrapped the […]
Palo Alto
Councilman Wolbach calls out his critics
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Councilman Cory Wolbach accused signature gatherers for a ballot initiative limiting office growth in Palo Alto of telling signers that they needed the […]
In the news
Rent increases cooling off a bit
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Rents in Palo Alto are sky-high and continue to climb, but new numbers from ApartmentList.com show that rent hikes, at least, are starting […]
Los Altos
Los Altos council to offer alternative to citizens initiative measure to protect city land
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Now that 2,900 Los Altos voters have signed a petition for a ballot measure to prevent the City Council from selling public land […]