Los Altos
Editorial: In Los Altos, no on Measure C, yes for Enander, Fligor
DAILY POST EDITORIAL Measure C in Los Altos was initially promoted as a measure that would stop the sale of city parks without a vote of the people. The group […]
Los Altos
Los Altos
Theater review: Drag queen play a strange mixture
BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic “The Legend of Georgia McBride” is a strange play. In part, it is a tutorial for straight men on how to become […]
Los Altos
Los Altos candidates to square off on Monday night
By the Daily Post staff The five candidates vying for two seats on the Los Altos City Council will take questions from the public and the press on Monday (Sept. […]
Los Altos
Bullis Charter School will take a different approach in Mountain View
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Leaders of a Los Altos charter school that has used wealthy parents’ donations to supplement public funds say they wouldn’t ask for money […]
Los Altos
Los Altos council gets behind ‘vision’ plan for downtown parking plazas
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Council voted unanimously last night (Aug. 28) to move forward with a nonbinding “vision” plan that would transform downtown by […]
Los Altos
Big changes proposed for downtown Los Altos — beer gardens, Ping Pong and a parking structure
Editor’s note: The version of this story printed in today’s Post gave the wrong date for the hearing. The hearing is actually Tuesday, Aug. 28, at 7 p.m., at City […]
Los Altos
Opinion: Fridays off policy should have gone to a vote
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I was surprised to learn that Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan decided on his own, without a public hearing or a vote […]
Los Altos
Fridays off plan for city workers didn’t go to council for a public hearing
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Los Altos’ new policy of giving most employees every other Friday off never went before City Council, City Manager Chris […]
Los Altos
Los Alto council drops idea of putting competing land measure on the ballot
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A citizens initiative to keep the city of Los Altos from selling city land without voter approval will not face a competing measure […]
Los Altos
Home burglars kicking in doors in Los Altos
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Burglars kicked in the doors of three nearby homes in Los Altos in a single day, weeks after two other unsolved home burglaries […]
Los Altos
Frequent ADA litigant Scott Johnson hits more businesses
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A liquor store in Mountain View and a futon shop in Los Altos have joined a list of El Camino Real businesses sued […]
Atherton
Who is running for City Council? A city by city breakdown
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Monday (June 16) marks the opening of the candidate filng period for the Nov. 6 election. Below is a breakdown of who is, […]
Los Altos
Los Altos City Council puts measure on the ballot to compete with citizens initiative
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The battle over public land is heating up in Los Altos, where City Council has moved ahead with a ballot measure to compete […]
Belmont
4 cities eye hotel tax increases
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Four mid-Peninsula cities — Palo Alto, San Carlos, Los Altos and Belmont — are planning to ask residents to raise hotel taxes in […]
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 […]
Los Altos
Mountain View-Los Altos High School District settles claim over rape
This story was originally printed in Monday’s Daily Post. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Mountain View-Los Altos High School District has settled for $80,000 with a former […]
Los Altos
City Council may put weaker public land measure on same ballot as citizen’s initiative
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Council on Tuesday (June 12) will consider countering a citizens initiative to keep the city from selling public land without […]
Los Altos
Was it a sex assault or an innocent game among second-graders? Incident results in two lawsuits
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Los Altos School District has been hit with lawsuits from parents who say their 6-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted by two of […]
Los Altos
Eight teens become Eagle Scouts
Eight Boy Scouts from Troop 30 of Los Altos have achieved their Eagle rank. Their promotion to Eagle rank on May 20 followed years of work on leadership, community service […]
Belmont
4 local school districts go to the voters on June 5 — a look at the measures
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Four mid-Peninsula school districts will ask voters for money in the June 5 primary. Three of the districts — Ravenswood, Las Lomitas and […]
Election 2018
Editorial: Regarding Measure E … bond issues create problems
DAILY POST EDITORIAL The Mountain View-Los Altos High School District is asking voters in the June 5 primary to support a $295 million bond issue to build new classrooms and […]
Los Altos
Initiative to stop sale of city land without a vote will appear on November ballot
By the Daily Post staff A group of Los Altos residents have collected more than the necessary number of signatures to put an item on the November ballot that would […]
Los Altos
Proposed ballot measure would limit City Council’s ability to sell land
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A group of Los Altos residents are preparing to collect signatures for a November ballot measure that would stop the city from selling […]
Los Altos
City got few complaints about smoking before passing ban
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos banned smoking in most public places after police received five complaints in the last six months, according to data obtained by […]
Los Altos
Man claims Los Altos building inspector told him “Go back to India”
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Altos, alleging retaliation by three employees over a home renovation permitting dispute, […]
Los Altos
City cracks down on cigarette smoking, considers marijuana stores
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer At a single meeting, Los Altos both cracked down on smoking in public and considered changing its tune on allowing cannabis businesses in […]
Los Altos
Proposal to buy new school site criticized
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Los Altos School District’s plans to buy a new school site in Mountain View — possibly through eminent domain from unwilling owners […]
Los Altos
Ex councilman calls Mordo ‘rude and obnoxious’ but others defend him
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A former councilman from Los Altos Hills voiced concerns about the newly elected mayor of Los Altos yesterday (Dec. 13) after reading the […]
Los Altos
Controversy over daycare center’s future
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A controversial 20-year lease between the city of Los Altos and a private daycare operator being promised first dibs on facilities at the […]
Los Altos
New mayor apologizes to vice mayor
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos Mayor Jean Mordo apologized to the newly elected vice mayor yesterday after he was quoted in the Post commenting on her […]
Los Altos
Old mayor calls new mayor a bully
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Bad blood and political turf wars continued their reign in Los Altos last night (Dec. 5) as new Mayor Jean Mordo called for […]
Los Altos
Daycare operator favored by city in Hillview project offers city employees a perk
Above, the current Hillview Community Center at 97 Hillview Ave. in Los Altos. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A daycare center that has been in sole negotiations with […]
Los Altos
Los Altos official proposes parcel tax to renovate or rebuild library
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer In 2012, the city of Los Altos pulled the plug on plans to rebuild the civic center and police station after a poll […]
Los Altos
Downtown Los Altos development pulled; detractors said it was the size of a 747
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Personal genomics pioneer Anne Wojcicki’s development company, Los Altos Community Investments, or LACI, pulled a project yesterday (Oct. 11) that was criticized by […]
Los Altos
City nixes proposed child care lease
Above, the city of Los Altos is planning to build a new community center to replace the Hillview Community Center at 97 Hillview Ave. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff […]