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Fire breaks out in attic of Palo Alto home
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto firefighters extinguished an attic fire at 4190 Willmar Drive a few minutes after midnight this morning (Nov. 9). Nobody was home when the […]
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Sea lion waddles into town
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Animal Services Superintendent Cody Macartney found himself in an unusual position yesterday morning: wrangling with a 200-pound California sea lion that […]
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Election Night Update: Cormack takes early lead for city council; Dauber and Dharap lead for school board; Combs, Nash and Taylor win in Menlo Park
By the Daily Post staff 11:28 p.m. — Shounak Dharap have moved up to second place in the Palo Alto School Board race with 81% of precincts reporting. Incumbent Ken […]
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A reader’s guide to local elections
If you’re catching up on the campaign for the Nov. 6 election, we’ve provided links to some of the stories and editorials that have appeared previously in the Post. Palo […]
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Daily Post’s recommendations for today’s election
Here’s a rundown of the candidates endorsed by the Daily Post and our recommendations for the ballot measures. Palo Alto City Council — Alison Cormack, Eric Filseth and Tom DuBois […]
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Purse snatching reported at Stanford Shopping Center
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are looking for two men who snatched a woman’s purse at Stanford Shopping Center. It happened on Sunday at 4:01 p.m. outside […]
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Council candidate Cormack gets a big boost from Guardino PAC and a landlords group
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Alison Cormack’s campaign for Palo Alto City Council has gotten a $46,836 boost with campaign mailers paid for by the California Apartment Association […]
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School board member Todd Collins targets candidate Kathy Jordan over her dealings with student paper
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto school board member Todd Collins, who is in the middle of his first term and isn’t on the ballot Tuesday, has […]
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Lawsuit says boy got a concussion from attack at JLS
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The mother of a JLS Middle School student has sued the Palo Alto school district claiming that violence at school left her son […]
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Scharff puts $121,500 into race for Midpen board
This story originally appeared in Tuesday’s print edition of the Daily Post. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Councilman Greg Scharff has spent more than $120,000 of […]
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Hydrogen fueling station opens
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer People who want to drive non-polluting cars, rejoice: the Barron Park Shell station in Palo Alto is poised to open the first hydrogen […]
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Contractors, architects and Laurene Powell Jobs fund school bond measure campaign
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The campaign for Measure Z, a $460 million bond measure that would benefit Palo Alto’s public elementary schools, has received $68,883 in campaign […]
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Teacher arrested for inappropriate contact with minor
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A teacher in Redwood City and Palo Alto has been arrested after a Woodside High School student watched an adult video and recognized […]
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5 Palo Alto City Council candidates raise a combined $253,186
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The five candidates for Palo Alto City Council have raised a total of $253,186.70 in campaign contributions — an impressive amount historically, but […]
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Man loses $2,450 in Amazon scam
By the Daily Post staff A Palo Alto man lost $2,450 to a scammer who called him claiming to be a fraud investigator for Amazon, according to police. Around 1:10 […]
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Editorial: Yes on Measure Z, the Palo Alto school bond measure
DAILY POST EDITORIAL In the past, this newspaper hasn’t supported school bond measures for two reasons. • The interest payments and fees usually exceed the amount spent on school construction. […]
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Car flips over on El Camino
By the Daily Post staff A father and son climbed out of this 2017 Toyota Camry uninjured after broadsiding a 2006 Toyota Sienna minivan around 8:05 a.m. yesterday (Oct. 23) […]
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Palo Alto want to use more realistic assumptions about pension costs, but that would raise city’s expenses
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Palo Alto officials want to start budgeting for employee pension costs based on financial estimates that they think are more realistic than those used […]
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Measure Z would bring improvements to Palo Alto’s elementary schools
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school district will go to voters on Nov. 6 with another school bond measure to fix up long-neglected elementary school […]
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Residents vent about traffic to City Council
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Two months after apologizing for a dismissive comment about Palo Alto’s traffic problem, Mayor Liz Kniss did her penance last night: by listening […]