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Cities wrestle over funds for rail crossings

September 23, 2018 2:35 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The cities of Palo Alto and Mountain View are at odds with the city of Sunnyvale over how to allocate funds for rail […]

Mountain View looks for a place for RVs to park

September 15, 2018 1:19 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The 250 to 400 people who live in cars, vans and RVs in Mountain View could get a place to park in a […]

Bullis Charter School will take a different approach in Mountain View

September 11, 2018 12:35 pm

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 […]

Controversial Bullis Charter School wants to expand into the Mountain View Whisman district

September 9, 2018 10:51 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Bullis Charter School, the controversial program in the Los Altos School District, is seeking to expand into the Mountain View Whisman School District […]

Landlord group gathering signatures for 2020 measure to curb rent control

August 23, 2018 10:24 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A landlord-funded campaign that would effectively end Mountain View’s two-year-old rent control program didn’t qualify for the November ballot, but supporters said yesterday […]

Teen’s death is a mystery

August 9, 2018 4:28 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A Mountain View High School student named Eddie Keep has died, Mountain View-Los Altos High School District officials said yesterday (Aug. 7). In […]

Kasperzak running for a seat on El Camino Hospital district board

August 6, 2018 10:30 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Former Mountain View Mayor Mike Kasperzak is running for a seat on the El Camino Healthcare District board, which he says has shown […]

Bierhaus may close due to landlord dispute

August 2, 2018 4:03 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A popular beer garden in downtown Mountain View may shutter when its lease ends next month, but Bierhaus owner Mike Finley says he’d […]

City aims to quash sex harassment suit against police chief

July 30, 2018 5:55 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Mountain View has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by a police dispatcher who claims she was […]

Transient attempts to kidnap toddler at park, police say

July 26, 2018 9:37 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Police in Mountain View arrested a masked transient early yesterday morning after she allegedly tried to kidnap a toddler at Fairmont Park off […]

Frequent ADA litigant Scott Johnson hits more businesses

July 17, 2018 12:30 pm

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 […]

Who is running for City Council? A city by city breakdown

July 15, 2018 2:20 pm

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, […]

Measure to weaken rent control won’t reach the ballot this fall

July 12, 2018 12:48 am

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A campaign for a ballot initiative that would have effectively repealed the city’s two-year-old rent control ordinance failed to pick up the roughly […]

Workers clean up Sprouts Farmers Market in Mountain View following a fire on Friday. Post photo by Allison Levitsky.

Sprouts Market to reopen after fire

July 9, 2018 9:38 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Sprouts Farmers Market in Mountain View is set to reopen Wednesday (July 11) after an overnight refrigerator fire prompted a five-day closure, according […]

Opinion: Why Mountain View’s proposed head tax is a dumb idea

July 5, 2018 5:55 pm

IOPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I cringed when I watched Mountain View City Council stumble its way into putting an employee head tax on the November ballot the […]

Police looking for hit-and-run driver who seriously injured woman

June 28, 2018 5:29 pm

Mountain View police are trying to identify a hit-and-run driver who seriously injured a woman. Police responded to the area of Whisman Road and Whisman Station Drive at 11:45 p.m. […]

Mountain View to ask voters if they want to tax big employers such as Google

June 27, 2018 6:25 pm

BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View voters will decide in November whether to charge the city’s large businesses a vastly increased per-employee business tax, which could hit […]