Palo Alto
Two inmates escape from Palo Alto Courthouse
By the Daily Post staff Authorities are looking for the two inmates above who fled from the Palo Alto Courthouse this morning in what a sheriff’s official called an “orchestrated […]
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Palo Alto
Retail restrictions getting pushback
Above is the former Anthropologie store at 999 Alma St. Google Streetview image. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer An eight-month-old requirement for Palo Alto developers to rent ground-floor […]
San Mateo County
Relatives found three young men killed in car crash
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer When three young men didn’t come home from a trip to the coast, their fathers and a brother started searching. And within hours […]
Menlo Park
Furor erupts over city proposal to hire lobbyist with Trump ties
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park City Council on Tuesday may approve a $96,000 contract to hire a lobbying firm that is being investigated by Special Counsel […]
San Carlos
A look at the San Carlos school board race
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer There are four people vying for the three San Carlos School District board seats up for grabs Tuesday — two incumbents, a candidate […]
Mountain View
Tenants might get hit with fee for rent control
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View tenants may soon have to chip in for rent control. Currently the city’s new rent control program charges landlords $155 per […]
Palo Alto
More youth psych beds proposed
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Kids and adolescents in psychiatric crisis in Palo Alto and the rest of Santa Clara County have nowhere to receive inpatient treatment in […]
Stanford
Man grabs Stanford student
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A Stanford student walking on the path around Lake Lagunita early Thursday morning was grabbed from behind by a man she didn’t know, […]
Palo Alto
HP Enterprise leaving Palo Alto, called a ‘harbinger of things to come’
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A piece of the company that dominated Palo Alto for decades announced yesterday that it was leaving town. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, or HPE, […]
San Mateo
City attorney clears candidate after complaint about donations
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A candidate for San Mateo City Council, Eric Rodriguez, was cleared yesterday by one of the two agencies investigating his campaign donations. Both […]
Palo Alto
City manager, other top officials up for a raise
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council will consider giving raises to four top city employees on Monday night, bringing City Manager Jim Keene’s salary past […]
San Mateo
A look at a couple of issues in the San Mateo City Council race
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Seven candidates are vying for three spots on the San Mateo City Council on Tuesday (Nov. 7), including two incumbents. Those running are […]
Menlo Park
City may rescind approval of Stanford project on Sand Hill Road
Above is a rendering of a 40,000-square-foot office building that Stanford wants to build at 2131 Sand Hill Road. The approval of that project is now in jeopardy. Illustration submitted […]
San Mateo County
3 recent M-A graduates killed on Skyline Boulevard
By the Daily Post staff The San Mateo County Coroner’s office has identified the three young men who died after their car crashed down an embankment off of Skyline Boulevard […]
Palo Alto
Council wants to study idea of creating a pedestrian mall on University Avenue
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Parts of University Avenue in Palo Alto may have a future without cars, City Council agreed during a discussion about an update to […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto bans marijuana stores
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council has banned marijuana-related business in town, other than deliveries, in a move intended to retain local control over regulation […]
Menlo Park
Plans for three new buildings submitted for downtown
Above is the building proposed for 1125 Merrill St. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Plans have been submitted for three new buildings at the corner of Santa Cruz […]
Menlo Park
Majority of council favors switch to district elections, but other changes could come later
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park voters may be seeing not just one but two election system changes in the coming years. Last night (Oct. 30), the […]
Palo Alto
Suit claims Jordan student bullied, threatened with knife
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The parents of an eighth-grader with special needs have filed a lawsuit against the Palo Alto Unified School District, alleging that district employees’ […]
Opinion
Local politicians should ask themselves: Have you made people’s lives better?
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor You probably read that senators Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., announced that they wouldn’t be running next November. This is the […]