Mountain View
City may hit big tech with tax
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer In a bid to raise between $5 million and $10 million for transportation, housing and homeless services, the city of Mountain View is […]
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Pear Theater offers eight plays in 15 minute slices
BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic Mountain View’s Pear Theater opened eight world premiere plays over the weekend (May 6-7). Each play is 15 minutes long, and all […]
Mountain View
Transient accused of forcing man to take him to KFC in Mountain View
A transient is now in jail after taking a San Jose man hostage by way of verbal threats and making the victim drive him “anywhere he wanted to go,” according […]
Mountain View
Mountain View A La Carte & Art festival this weekend
Bungee jumping, hand-made preserves, etchings, sculpture, muscle cars and music are just a few of the offerings at the Mountain View A La Carte & Art festival this weekend, organizers […]
Mountain View
Former teacher gets probation for inappropriate text messages to kids
By the Daily Post staff A former Mountain View High School math teacher was sentenced to three years probation yesterday (May 3) for sending inappropriate text messages to a student, […]
Mountain View
2 power outages reported in Mountain View
By the Daily Post staff Two downed power lines left more than 1,200 PG&E customers in the dark today (April 24) in Mountain View. At 10:12 a.m., PG&E said it […]
Mountain View
Planned Parenthood buys new office in Mountain View
This story originally appeared in the Daily Post on April 6. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Planned Parenthood has bought a nearly 8,000-square-foot building half a mile from […]
Mountain View
Man takes Taser from cop during chase, police say
A man was arrested after he pinned an officer to the ground and took his Taser during a foot pursuit in Mountain View, police said. Officers stopped Richard Gescat, 36, […]
Mountain View
Eight city employees have crashed city vehicles in the past year
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Eight employees of the city of Mountain View, including four police officers and Fire Chief Juan Diaz, have crashed city vehicles in less […]
In the news
Local politicians visit China; mayor felt he was used as ‘window dressing’
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 […]
Mountain View
Mayor calls proposed ballot measure a ‘sneak’ repeal of rent control
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel says a ballot measure proposed by a group backed by landlords would effectively repeal the city’s year-old rent […]
Mountain View
Video shows YouTube shooter telling officers she won’t hurt anyone
Police video made public today (April 13) shows Mountain View police officers talking to a woman in her car hours before she opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno […]
Mountain View
Group wants a ballot measure to modify rent control law
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A group called Measure V Too Costly, referring to the rent control measure that won 53.6% of Mountain View’s vote in 2016, is […]
Google
Doctor offers a hypothesis about how Google engineer died
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Why Chuchu Ma spoke about “going into the water” on a disoriented 911 call the day before her naked body was found in […]
Mountain View
Mayor disagrees with police about reason for influx of RVs
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel is disputing the statement of a police sergeant who said the city’s services attract people who live in […]
Mountain View
Police say city’s ‘great services’ are attracting car campers — 291 live in vehicles
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The number of people living in vehicles in Mountain View nearly doubled in 2017, and one factor in the increase is that people are […]
Mountain View
Ann Coulter speaks about immigration, liberals and ‘idiot millennials’ — only 1 protester
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Conservative commentator Ann Coulter made the case for strong borders at a sold-out event in Mountain View last night (March 13), which drew […]
Mountain View
Yountville shooting victim had ties to Mountain View
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer One of the three victims of Friday’s hostage standoff at a veterans home in Yountville was an alumna of St. Francis High School […]
Mountain View
Cops prepare for Ann Coulter visit
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Police in Mountain View are planning security for a sold-out speaker event on Tuesday (March 13) night featuring Ann Coulter, the provocative conservative […]
Mountain View
Gentle, artistic man died violently
Originally printed Feb. 9 in the Daily Post. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A silent, solitary life ended in inexplicable violence in downtown Mountain View last November with […]
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Mountain View moves ahead with plans to close Castro Street at railroad tracks
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View officials have advanced plans to close off Castro Street downtown at the Caltrain tracks and possibly create a pedestrian mall along […]
Mountain View
Pro rent control group hit with campaign disclosure complaint
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Mountain View Tenants Coalition has been hit with a second complaint filed with the state Fair Political Practices Commission, this one alleging […]
Mountain View
Murder victim finally identified
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A transient stabbed to death in downtown Mountain View was finally identified by the Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office yesterday — three […]
Mountain View
Bullet holes found in bank windows
Police are investigating bullet holes that were found Wednesday (Feb. 7) in windows at a bank in Mountain View. The bullet holes were found in the windows of the Wells […]
Mountain View
School volunteer arrested on suspicion of sex crimes
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A volunteer at a Chinese after-school program in Mountain View has been arrested after two elementary school students said he had touched them […]
Mountain View
Police motorcycle officer injured in crash
A Mountain View police motorcycle officer was injured in a collision with a car on the Central Expressway this afternoon, a police spokeswoman confirmed. The officer was taken to a […]
Mountain View
Serial ADA litigant strikes hotel
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A quadriplegic attorney notorious for filing lawsuits that accuse small businesses not complying with the American with Disabilities Act has targeted a Mountain […]
Mountain View
Council to explore three possible tax measures
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Despite soaring revenues and a hefty surplus, Mountain View City Council unanimously decided last night to explore three possible tax measures for November: […]
Mountain View
As city revenues soar, city considers new taxes
By the Daily Post staff Mountain View officials tomorrow (Jan. 23) will consider three tax measures for the November ballot even though the city just completed a year in which […]
Mountain View
Siegel, longtime progressive activist, elected mayor
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Longtime progressive activist and community organizer Lenny Siegel, who served as vice mayor of Mountain View last year, won his City Council colleagues’ […]
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 […]
Mountain View
Mountain View pot shops won’t be opening anytime soon
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Marijuana businesses are already blossoming in San Jose, but in weed-happy Mountain View, city bureaucrats are tapping the brakes. Mountain View was an […]
Google
Stolen ATM dumped at Google headquarters
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Police are scratching their heads after discovering what sounds like a dystopian hate crime against robots: a torched ATM found at Google’s Mountain […]
Caltrain
Bike, pedestrian tunnel under Caltrain proposed
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale will each chip in for a $1.2 million feasibility study on a future bicycle and pedestrian […]
Mountain View
After woman’s death, police don’t think there’s a murderer at large
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Police investigating the death of a Google engineer whose naked body was found in a drainage canal don’t think there’s a murderer roaming […]