Palo Alto

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (June 15) backed off an emergency rule to block tall apartment buildings near Caltrain stations. Housing advocates warned council […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (June 15) approved an 8% increase on utility bills, costing the average resident $422 more per year. Similar rate […]

The revolving door has swung and after Palo Alto school superintendent Don Austin found a new job heading the Laguna Beach school system, that district’s superintendent has been hired here. […]

A citizen was wondering what former Palo Alto School District Superintendent Don Austin has been up to as the district’s “superintendent emeritus,” so she filed a request under the California […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Two former Palo Alto school board members are warning of “immediate and traumatic” layoffs because of a new contract that gives teachers a 10.4% […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (June 8) placed a half-cent sales tax on the Nov. 3 ballot to buy land and renovate buildings at […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Unified School District should learn from its defeated parcel tax by having a more active campaign and concrete responses to opposition, […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Santa Clara County has agreed to pay $192,783 to three employees who lost their jobs because they refused to take the Covid vaccine, court […]

Santa Clara County property owners have approved a $15.75 annual fee to fund a special district that controls mosquitoes and other disease-causing pests. The ballots were mailed to voters in […]

The Palo Alto school district’s $800 parcel tax has failed, the first time the district’s voters have rejected a school tax in 22 years. A parcel tax needs two-thirds of […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school board has picked its next superintendent with hopes of bringing stability and a cultural reset to the district that is […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council has been divided on the topic of allowing seven-story buildings on California Avenue. Mayor Vicki Veenker and Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council is on the fence about the city’s license plate-reading cameras, which have helped solve crimes but are sold by a […]

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BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Commission wants pickleball players to quiet the high-pitched popping sounds of their sport, which is stressing out disabled […]

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A bill that critics say will stop journalists from reporting on government fraud passed the California Assembly today with votes in favor from Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, and Diane Papan, […]

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