Palo Alto
Illness depletes city council
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Three members of Palo Alto’s City Council and City Manager Jim Keene were absent from last night’s meeting because they were all sick. […]
Palo Alto
Appeals court to decide if Persky recall stays on the ballot
Three justices in the state’s 6th District Court of Appeal will decide whether the recall Judge Aaron Persky stays on the June 5 ballot after hearing oral arguments from attorneys […]
Palo Alto
City may put tax on he ballot — cost of police station jumps from $57 million to $92.2 million
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Palo Alto voters might be asked in November to increase taxes in the city as a way to fund a package of infrastructure projects, […]
Opinion
Opinion: School might get the name of Pearl Harbor mastermind Yamamoto
OPINION Originally published Monday, March 19. BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor An unfortunate coincidence has surfaced in the Palo Alto school board’s plans to rename Terman and Jordan middle […]
Palo Alto
Medical group goes after doctor for $1.4 million in legal fees
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Attorneys for a Sutter Health affiliate sued by a former employee are seeking more than $1.4 million in legal fees from her following […]
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 […]
Redwood City
Man charged with burglary shows up at parole hearing wearing stolen loot, DA says
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Redwood City man who was charged yesterday (March 16) with stealing $13,000 worth of electronics and jewelry from a home was arrested […]
Palo Alto
No cock a doodle doo in Palo Alto; roosters banned, chickens OK
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A little-known fact about suburban chicken-keeping in Palo Alto? Roosters aren’t allowed. A Washington Post story on March 2 reported that egg-laying chickens […]
Menlo Park
Felon who fired assault rifle in backyard gets a year in jail
This story was originally published Thursday, March 15, in the Daily Post By the Daily Post staff A Menlo Park man who shot an assault rifle in his backyard because […]
Opinion
Opinion: Roundabouts spark outrage and 10 more are on the way
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you think driving is more difficult in Palo Alto these days, it’s not your imagination. In fact, it’s intentional. The city of […]
Palo Alto
Thieves hit Victoria’s Secret for 4th time in a week
By the Daily Post staff For the fourth time this week, thieves have hit the Victoria’s Secret store in the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto. At about 4:30 p.m. […]
Opinion
Review: ‘Skeleton Crew’ looks at morality amid crisis
BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic The collapse of the auto industry in Detroit frames the story of “Skeleton Crew,” a 2016 play by Dominique Morisseau, which opened […]
Palo Alto
Late math professor off school names list
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A recently deceased Stanford mathematician was removed from a short list of prominent figures from which to rename Palo Alto’s Jordan and Terman […]
Los Altos
City cracks down on cigarette smoking, considers marijuana stores
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer At a single meeting, Los Altos both cracked down on smoking in public and considered changing its tune on allowing cannabis businesses in […]
San Mateo County
Supervisor candidate Dan Stegink to focus on county’s pension liabilities
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer San Mateo County Supervisor Don Horsley’s challenger in the June 5 election is a Pacifica Planning Commissioner who says the county’s unfunded pension […]
Santa Clara County
Correction
A Post story (printed Feb. 15 and posted at padailypost.com on Feb. 16) on the campaign to recall Judge Aaron Persky included a statement by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell about […]
Palo Alto
List of possible school names is narrowed down to six
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school board last night ruled out renaming Terman and Jordan middle schools after geographic features of the city, and will […]
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 […]
Palo Alto
SEC hits Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos with fraud charges
Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford dropout once called the “next Steve Jobs,” was charged today (March 14) with “massive fraud” by U.S. regulators for her actions while leading the Palo Alto-based […]
Palo Alto
Suspects in Victoria’s Secret heist crash while fleeing the store
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A man and woman suspected of stealing about $7,500 worth of clothes from Victoria’s Secret were arrested after they flipped their car over […]