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Housing bill amended to reduce maximum heights of buildings from 85 feet to 55 feet

April 15, 2018 11:35 am

From staff and wire reports The author of a bill in the Legislature that would have allowed 85-foot tall apartment buildings on El Camino Real reduced the maximum height in […]

Chinese media has circulated this photo of mid-Peninsula officials at a signing ceremony in Chengdu, China. Local officials in the shot include, Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel, second from left, and Menlo Park City Councilwoman Kirsten Keith, far right. In front at right is former Mountain View councilman Mike Kasperzak.
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Local politicians visit China; mayor felt he was used as ‘window dressing’

April 14, 2018 10:54 am

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel said he felt that he and other local officials were used as “window dressing” during a trip to […]

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Pick up today’s 72-page Daily Post

April 13, 2018 1:30 am

In today’s edition: A Mountain View rent control board member is accused of conflict of interest; A local family bought a piglet and thought it wouldn’t get bigger; A Palo […]

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Ethics investigations of two local political figures taking an unusual amount of time

April 10, 2018 2:48 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The state agency that fines politicians for ethics violations has been investigating Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss and Redwood City Councilman Jeff Gee […]

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Man arrested on suspicion of threatening Speier’s staff

April 10, 2018 2:39 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Deputies have arrested a man who left 12 threatening voicemails at Congresswoman Jackie Speier’s San Mateo office including one in which he promised […]

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YouTube shooter angry company had stopped paying her for videos

April 3, 2018 6:15 pm

Update 10:20 p.m. — The father of a woman suspected of shooting three people at YouTube’s headquarters says she was angry at the company because it stopped paying her for […]

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Woman wounds 3 at YouTube in San Bruno before killing herself

April 3, 2018 2:55 pm

Correction: Police Chief Ed Barberini initially said there were four shooting victims but later clarified that a fourth person suffered an ankle injury. This story has been updated to reflect […]

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Mid-Peninsula residents’ top concerns: Housing, traffic, regulating commercial development

March 6, 2018 5:39 pm

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Creating affordable housing, reducing traffic congestion and regulating commercial development are the three top issues for residents across the mid-Peninsula, according to a series […]

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Arrest in white powder scare

March 2, 2018 12:35 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A man accused of sending letters with white powder to five people, including Donald Trump Jr. and Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, was […]

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Gas station, hotel are latest local targets of frequent ADA litigant

February 21, 2018 2:04 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A man behind hundreds of Americans with Disabilities lawsuits has filed cases against two more businesses — a gas station in Menlo Park […]

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Housing bill could result in 85-foot tall buildings on El Camino

February 18, 2018 10:06 pm

Published in the Daily Post on Feb. 12, 2018. Follow-up story appears below. BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent A bill introduced in the California Legislature would ease restrictions on […]

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Local entrepreneur who almost won Assembly seat drops Republican label for statewide bid

February 14, 2018 11:16 am

From staff and wire reports Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Poizner, who came within 5,800 votes of representing Palo Alto and the mid-Peninsula in the state Assembly in 2004, has ditched […]

Family packs their belongings in a U-Haul truck. File photo.
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High cost of living is driving out locals — families are being crushed

February 12, 2018 11:24 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY and EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writers Terri McKinsey, a Palo Alto High School grad, bought the house where she raised her family on Sierra Court — […]

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Preventing another flood has been a long, frustrating process — Part 2 on the 1998 Flood

February 3, 2018 11:25 pm

LAST IN A TWO-PART SERIES BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Two decades after a flood forced 500 residents to evacuate their homes in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto […]

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Storm, high tide combined to create a disaster 20 years ago — Part 1

February 2, 2018 11:54 pm

UNDER WATER — Residents of an East Palo Alto apartment complex succeed in pulling this car out of a flooded carport in the 1998 flood. The image is from a […]

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Timeline of what’s happened since the 1998 flood

February 2, 2018 11:52 pm

By the Daily Post staff Feb. 3, 1998 — Fierce rains and high tides combined to make San Francisquito Creek overflow its banks at 1 a.m., inundating houses, cars and […]

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Local cities rack up hefty surpluses

February 1, 2018 2:11 pm

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post correspondent When the city of East Palo Alto posted an $18.8 million budget surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, the city finance […]

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Former Hobee’s co-owner Peter Taber dies

January 31, 2018 11:18 pm

By the Daily Post staff Longtime Hobee’s co-owner Peter Taber has died at his Los Altos Hills home following a yearlong battle with melanoma. He was 63. His husband and […]

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Eshoo wears black at State of the Union as part of “Metoo” protest

January 30, 2018 6:48 pm
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What do we get if we vote to raise bridge tolls?

January 26, 2018 3:05 pm

BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Bay Area residents will vote in June on whether to raise tolls by $3 for all Bay bridges in the region, except the […]

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