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The Digital DNA egg’s days are numbered
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer “Digital DNA,” the condemned circuit board egg sculpture in downtown Palo Alto, has another three weeks to seek a new home before the […]
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Gunn High School students call for gun control
Students at Gunn High School in Palo Alto and their supporters teamed up with a widely known activist organization to call for national gun law reform at a protest near […]
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Price of Palo Alto parking permits shoots up 57%
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The cost of an employee parking permit in downtown Palo Alto has shot up from $466 per year to $730. The increase was […]
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UPDATE: High-speed police chase ends in Palo Alto neighborhood — 2 detained
By the Daily Post staff Update, 5 a.m. — Sunnyvale’s Department of Public Safety said via twitter the second suspect in the chase has been captured. Officers are trying to […]
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Auction house selling Daily Post article autographed by Steve Jobs
By the Daily Post staff A Boston auction house is selling Steve Jobs memorabilia including this autographed article from the front page of the June 10, 2008, edition of the […]
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Committee proposes nine names for middle schools
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Jordan and Terman middle schools in Palo Alto could soon bear the name of a Silicon Valley luminary, the 19th-century “mother of Palo […]
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Victim of fatal car accident in Palo Alto identified
The woman who died after a head-on collision on Oregon Expressway in Palo Alto on Thursday morning was identified today as a 65-year-old Merced County resident, according to the Santa […]
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Woman killed in crash near Oregon Expressway-101 interchange
A woman who died in a crash on Oregon Expressway in Palo Alto early this morning was the passenger and wife of the man driving the vehicle that crossed over […]
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Fine critical of city letter opposing housing legislation
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Councilman Adrian Fine criticized Mayor Liz Kniss yesterday (Feb. 19) for opposing a pro-housing state Senate bill on behalf of the […]
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Push for more housing might make parking problems worse
Clarification: This story has been updated to explain that Councilwoman Lydia Kou referred to the former Los Altos Water Treatment Plant site at the east end of San Antonio Road […]
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Police to re-shoot recruitment video that was seen as too militaristic
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto police are preparing to re-shoot a dramatic new officer recruitment video that’s been slammed as being overly aggressive, macho and militaristic. […]
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Councilmen call for more transparency during labor negotiations
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer As the city of Palo Alto continues to bargain quietly with union leaders on its most recent round of employee contract negotiations, four […]
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Owners of now defunct College Terrace Market sued for $460,000
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The owners of the shuttered College Terrace Market in Palo Alto have been sued by their building’s real estate developer for $460,000 of […]
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Housing bill could result in 85-foot tall buildings on El Camino
Published in the Daily Post on Feb. 12, 2018. Follow-up story appears below. BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent A bill introduced in the California Legislature would ease restrictions on […]
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Train tunnel or trench too pricey, new study finds
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Digging a trench or boring a tunnel for the Caltrain and high-speed rail tracks in Palo Alto would cost billions and would be […]
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Former teacher found guilty of child molestation
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A jury today (Feb. 14) found a former Palo Alto elementary school teacher guilty of molesting his ex-girlfriend’s daughter for three years starting […]
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Dauber receives package with rape threat and unknown white substance
6:42 p.m. update — A substance found today in a package sent to the Stanford professor responsible for leading the recall campaign against Judge Aaron Persky has been determined to […]
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Injury accident closes Embarcadero Road
By the Daily Post staff 10 p.m. update — A car hit a pedestrian on a scooter and a bicyclist today (Feb. 13) on Embarcadero Road in Palo Alto, sending […]
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Mosquito spraying set for Wednesday night
By the Daily Post staff A county helicopter will spray for mosquitoes Wednesday (Feb. 14) in Palo Alto’s Baylands Nature Preserve. Starting at 7:30 a.m., the county’s Vector Control District […]
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