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Confrontation at Starbucks over ‘MAGA’ hat erupts
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A south Palo Alto activist has been fired from her accounting job at Gryphon Stringed Instruments after chasing a man wearing a Make […]
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Retired city of Palo Alto CFO Lalo Perez dies
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto’s longtime CFO Lalo Perez has died nine months after retiring, City Manager Ed Shikada announced at City Council last night (April […]
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Comcast, power outages strike Palo Alto area
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer April Fools’ Day was anything but funny for tens of thousands of people on the mid-Peninsula yesterday, with a Comcast outage wiping out […]
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New car dealership proposal moves ahead despite criticism over its size
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A 50-foot-tall car dealership proposed to replace what used to be Ming’s Restaurant on Embarcadero Road barely scraped past the Palo Alto Planning […]
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Man arrested on suspicion of trying to carjack a FedEx driver
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A man was arrested in downtown Palo Alto after allegedly trying to carjack a FedEx driver in broad daylight, police said. Dietrich Deshun […]
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Commission approves removal of 7 trees on El Camino
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Menlo Park’s Environmental Quality Commission voted 4-3 last night (March 27) in favor of removing seven redwood trees at 1000 […]
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Owl gets a new ‘do
A Palo Alto animal control officer used a blow-dryer yesterday (March 28) to warm up a nestling screech owl who was found cold and wet in a backyard in Palo […]
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Feds to investigate Stanford and other schools involved in college admissions scandal
By the Daily Post staff The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Stanford and the seven other colleges that were part of a admissions scandal that resulted […]
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Accused boy allowed to participate on Gunn robotics team for 12 hours a week — read the judge’s ruling
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A judge ruled today (March 26) that a Gunn High School junior who sexually harassed a teammate on the school’s robotics team can […]
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Ruling due on Monday in robotics team sex harassment case
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A judge is set to decide Monday (March 25) whether to continue a temporary ban that’s keeping a Gunn High School student from […]
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Mugger on El Camino gets $200 and cigarettes
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Police spent about 45 minutes searching the Barron Park neighborhood in south Palo Alto yesterday (March 22) after a man in a yellow […]
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Intruder enters bedroom, starts asking questions
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are looking for a man who man who appeared in a woman’s Ventura Avenue apartment, sat down on the bed and began […]
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DA says fatal police shooting of Palo Alto teacher was justified — updated
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The District Attorney decided yesterday (March 20) that two Redwood City police officers will not face criminal charges for shooting Palo Alto teacher […]
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Two community meetings planned on housing bill SB 50
By the Daily Post staff The controversy over building more housing will result in two town hall-style meetings in the next few days sponsored by local groups with different perspectives. […]
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Ventura neighborhood may get more housing; Council to review progress of planning effort tonight
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Palo Alto’s Ventura neighborhood could eventually have a greater variety of housing, taller buildings and more parks under an $888,000 plan that’s being developed […]
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San Mateo County supervisors may come out in support of SB 50, a controversial housing bill
BY EMILY MIBACH AND ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writers Two San Mateo County supervisors are proposing that the board approve a resolution that supports the divisive Senate Bill 50, […]
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Palo Alto mayor blasts Senate Bill 50, which would allow high-density housing
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Mayor Eric Filseth, in his State of the City address last night (March 5), came out with guns blazing against Senate […]
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Assemblyman names Christine Blasey Ford ‘Woman of the Year’
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Christine Blasey Ford, the Palo Alto psychologist who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of trying to rape her when they were in […]
Opinion
Congresswoman spoofed on SNL; Social media buzzing about ‘alien’ in downtown Palo Alto
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you’re a politician in Washington, you know you’ve made the big time when you’re impersonated on “Saturday Night Live.” But what if […]
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Cousins arrested in burglary of SAP offices
By the Daily Post staff A pair of cousins were grabbed by police as they attempted to escape with stolen property from the Palo Alto campus of the German software […]