Los Altos
City manager wants to control the news
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer In the past year, Los Altos city employees and elected officials have been told not to speak to the media on certain subjects. […]
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Verizon and AT&T sue city after node antennas are rejected
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Verizon and AT&T are suing Los Altos because the city won’t let them install small cell antennas, or “nodes,” on city utility poles. […]
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City spends $5,000 per council meeting for a rented stage, audio equipment
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos spends $5,000 per city council meeting at the youth center to rent audio equipment and the foot-tall stage on which the […]
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City considers buying open space district’s offices
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Los Altos wants to buy Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District’s office at 330 Distel Circle. The district is looking to […]
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Homeowner sues Los Altos, says it’s too difficult to get a granny unit approved
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer A Palo Alto lawyer is suing Los Altos because the city won’t let him add an accessory dwelling unit, or granny unit, to […]
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Minimum wage goes up in 4 cities; One city starts collecting head tax
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Minimum-wage workers will make 40 cents an hour more in three mid-Peninsula cities because of laws that took effect on Wednesday, Jan. 1. […]
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Controversial city manager gets raise
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Chris Jordan, the Los Altos city manager at the center of a debacle over council’s meeting location, has received a $16,735 raise. His […]
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City hiring an information officer to deal with reporters
This story originally appeared in Tuesday’s print edition of the Daily Post. Most of the local news stories the Post prints never appear online. The only way to get that […]
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Thieves ram truck into jewelry store
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Thieves used a stolen truck to smash the front window of a jewelry store on Main Street in Los Altos so they could […]
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Opinion: This story gets weirder and weirder
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The controversy over why Los Altos residents can’t watch their City Council meetings on TV just gets weirder by the day. I’d say […]
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Los Altos joins the parade of cities banning natural gas
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Add Los Altos to the list of local cities that plan to ban natural gas in new homes and businesses. City Council split […]
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Consultant says City Council can’t return to City Hall, but she won’t say why
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Council last night suspended the contract of a disability consultant after she told council that they can’t move back to […]
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Los Altos City Council meetings will be televised live again
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos will start broadcasting City Council meetings on cable television tonight, following months of complaints about a blackout from residents. Council meetings […]
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Couple robbed, carjacked in Los Altos; two teens arrested
By the Daily Post staff Los Altos police say they’ve arrested two teenage boys on suspicion of robbing and carjacking a couple in their 60s while they were parking in […]
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Merchants become detectives and track down theft suspect
This story was originally printed in the Daily Post on Thursday, Oct. 31. Only a fraction of the stories the Post prints are on this website. To get all of […]
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Jury recommends death penalty for man who killed Los Altos native
Only a fraction of the Post’s stories appear on this website. To read the latest local news, pick up the Post every morning at more than 1,000 mid-Peninsula locations. From […]
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3,635 PG&E customers lose power after Los Altos auto accident
By the Daily Post staff Traffic came to a standstill on Foothill Expressway during the afternoon rush hour yesterday (Oct. 17), and thousands of residents lost power, when a car […]
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Council chambers passes air test — what was bothering Councilwoman Bruins?
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer There’s nothing wrong with the air in Los Altos City Hall Council Chambers, according to an air quality test the city ordered. The […]
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Opinion: Odor complaint sends city hall into a tizzy
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s been a strange few months at Los Altos City Hall, and I’m sure residents are scratching their heads, trying to figure out […]
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City manager was paid to leave previous job
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan, who has ignited controversy for ignoring a 4-1 council directive, was paid $141,652 to leave his last […]
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City manager clashed with council members in his previous job
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan, who disregarded a 4-1 council decision, has a history of clashing with the council members to whom […]
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Developer sues city over rejected plans for homes
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent A developer is suing the city of Los Altos after the City Council rejected a proposal to build two single-family homes in the Montebello […]
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Los Altos father, daughter killed in dive boat fire
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Scott Chan of Los Altos and his adult daughter, Kendra Chan, went on snorkeling trips near the Channel Islands off the coast of […]
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City spends $50,000 on councilwoman’s asthma claims; City manager overrides council decision
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer A dispute over Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins’ asthma has cost Los Altos $50,000 and spurred the city manager to override a council majority vote. […]
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‘Boy Next Door Killer’ convicted of murdering Los Altos native
From staff and wire reports A jury has found an aspiring actor who prosecutors called “The Boy Next Door Killer” guilty of fatally stabbing two Los Angeles-area women, including a […]
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Fentanyl exposure sends cop to hospital
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Los Altos police officer who was investigating a drug related crime was taken to a hospital yesterday (Monday, Aug. 12) after being […]
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Los Altos bans ‘node’ antennas for the most part in residential areas
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos became the first city in the mid-Peninsula to largely ban small cell antennas, or “nodes” in residential neighborhoods, but not all […]
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Los Altos council to vote on ordinance that mostly keeps small cell antennas out of neighborhoods
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Council tonight (Aug. 5) will vote an ordinance that nearly bans small cell antennas, or “nodes,” in residential neighborhoods. Cellphone […]
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Neighbor helps police catch home burglary suspects
By the Daily Post staff A sharp-eyed neighbor helped Los Altos police catch two suspected home burglars, authorities said. The neighbor saw two people exiting a home on the 500 […]
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City of Los Altos sued by pro-housing group
This story first appeared in Friday’s print edition of the Daily Post. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Los Altos City Council will meet behind closed doors on […]
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Los Altos woman killed in suspected DUI crash
A Los Altos woman was killed in a suspected DUI crash in Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo County on Saturday, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash happened […]
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Councilwoman Bruins calls Mayor Lee Eng’s lobbyist idea ‘naive’
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins said she thinks other council members are being “naive” when they say the city should hire its own […]
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AT&T wants to put small antenna 10 feet from girl’s bedroom window
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Los Altos man said Monday (July 8) he was shocked to get a letter from AT&T telling him that the company planned […]
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Some city employees to clam up about Planning Commission chairman’s DUI arrest
By the Daily Post staff A number of Los Altos city employees were told not to say anything to the public or news media when Los Altos Planning Commission Chairman […]
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Council considers nicer chambers, but decides to look at city’s priorities first
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Some Los Altos City Council members obviously aren’t happy with their current council chambers. Six months after deciding to spend $1.2 million to […]