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Woman arrested on multiple charges after hitting police car
By the Daily Post staff Mountain View police have arrested a woman for allegedly ramming a stolen car into Walgreens at 100 block of East El Camino Real and then […]
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Clarke’s closing after 75 years of burgers
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Clarke’s Charcoal Broiler at 615 W. El Camino Real is shutting its doors after 75 years of serving what some have deemed the […]
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Finding cleaning supplies isn’t easy
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer People are scrounging for cleaning supplies due to fears of COVID-19, even lining up outside stores before dawn, but it’s still not enough […]
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Councilman says gun restrictions shouldn’t be a priority
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View City Council has taken steps to expand gun laws and improve safety, but the city has more pressing matters, Councilman John […]
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Man bursts into house, attempts to kidnap woman
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View police have arrested a man accused of breaking into a woman’s home, grabbing her by the neck and attempting to kidnap […]
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Lawsuit over girl’s forced sex exam is settled for $600,000
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer The parents who sued after three Mountain View police officers and a Santa Clara County social worker stripped their 5-year-old daughter and examined […]
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Mountain View council decides not to back 9-county Faster sales tax
By the Daily Post staff Mountain View City Council has declined to endorse a plan to raise the sales tax by one cent to fund Bay Area transportation projects, a […]
March 2020 Primary
Measure D would raise limit on apartment rent increases
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer Former Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel said the California Apartment Association is being “deceptive” in their mailers supporting Measure D, a proposal on […]
March 2020 Primary
Measure T would give Mountain View Whisman schools money for building improvements and teacher housing
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer The ballot for the March 3 primary in Mountain View includes Measure T, a $259 million bond measure for the Mountain View-Whisman School […]
March 2020 Primary
Measure T passage would reduce rent for teachers
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer The rent of new apartments to be leased by Mountain View Whisman School District employees will depend on the passage of $259 million […]
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Mountain View residents could vote on RV rules in an April election
By the Daily Post staff Surprise, surprise. It looked like the repeal of an ordinance limiting RV parking on Mountain View streets was headed for the November ballot. But City […]
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Mountain View hires former city employee as city manager
By the Daily Post staff Mountain View City Council announced today that it has decided to hire the city’s former deputy city manager, Kimbra McCarthy, as its new city manager, […]
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Job Lopez, activist who was caught vandalizing political sign, dead at 75
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer Job Lopez, a Mountain View rent control advocate who stole and vandalized campaign lawn signs at a home, has died at the age […]
In the news
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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RV lots appear ready, but they’re still locked up
This story was printed in the Daily Post on Dec. 27. Only a fraction of the stories the Post covers are posted on this website. If you want to get […]
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Where did the money for the Rengstorff Ave. rail bridge go?
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Mountain View is ready to build a train bridge, or grade separation, above Rengstorff Avenue and Central Expressway. But the […]
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Council met at law firm to interview city manager applicants
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View City Council members gathered in the conference room of a law firm on Castro Street to privately interview candidates for the […]
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Competency trial ahead for accused murderer of disabled man
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The man accused of beating a deaf, mute, visually impaired homeless man to death in downtown Mountain View will go before a jury […]
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Will a pedestrian-only mall work on Castro Street in Mountain View? In many cities the concept has failed
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View officials are taking a risk in potentially turning Castro Street into a pedestrian mall, because some cities have found that the […]
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Mountain View’s housing fund grows amid homelessness crisis
BY SONYA HERRERA Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View, which has seen a surge in homeless people living in RVs on the streets, has $120 million in its housing fund, […]
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Seven-story building to replace the Milk Pail
BY JEN NOWELL Daily Post Correspondent One floor less makes all the difference as the Mountain View City Council allows a seven-story office building on a site that includes the […]
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City considering new police station
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Crane pops up on Mountain View-Palo Alto border
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Truck nearly plunges off bridge
By the Daily Post staff A Chevy pickup hauling a trailer went off the road and rolled onto its side on Friday (Nov. 8) in Mountain View. The truck was […]
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Police arrest man who reported his drunken girlfriend hurt herself while driving
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Officers arrested a Mountain View man for public intoxication after he called the police to report that his drunken girlfriend had been injured […]
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Mountain View putting together rules for coming e-scooter onslaught
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Electric scooters are headed to Mountain View but will likely face new rules — like no riding on sidewalks and no riding by […]
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City wants to stop the demolition of rent controlled-apartments
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent As more rent-controlled apartment buildings in Mountain View are being torn down to make way for new development — leaving residents scrambling for a […]
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City, county sued over 5-year-old girl’s forced sex exam
BY JEN NOWELL Daily Post Correspondent A Mountain View family has filed a lawsuit against the city and Santa Clara County, after a 5-year-old girl was forcibly stripped at home […]
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Google’s plan for massive office buildings on the Landings site moves ahead
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View City Council is fine with Google’s plans to build an office building as large as 40 Midtown Safeways on Landings Drive. […]
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Political sign vandal to pay homeowner $1,000
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Job Lopez, a 74-year-old Mountain View tenants rights activist, agreed yesterday to pay $1,000 to the owner of a house where he was […]
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Council approves restrictions on RV parking
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View City Council has voted 4-3 to ban RVs from parking on narrow streets, but supporters of car campers said they will […]
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Wrong-way crash kills two on Highway 85
By the Daily Post staff Two people were killed early this morning (Sept. 13) in a wrong-way driver crash on Highway 85 in Mountain View, according to the CHP. The […]
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Two lawsuits claim school district didn’t do enough to stop sexual misconduct
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View Whisman School District has had complaints filed against it by two women who allege that the district did not do enough […]
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Opium bust results in $452,774 budget bounty for police
By the Daily Post staff An opium drug bust has resulted in a $452,774 boost to the budget of the Mountain View Police Department. Jasvir Singh, 34, and his wife, […]
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Caltrans rebuked by federal safety agency over Tesla crash on 101
The fatal crash of a Tesla in Autopilot mode on Highway 101 in Mountain View prompted federal safety regulators to recommend Monday (Sept. 9) that Caltrans move faster to repair […]