Redwood City
Redwood City settles on map for council districts
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Redwood City Council has selected a map to divvy up the city into seven voting districts, so in the 2020 council election […]
Kevin Shenkman
Menlo Park
Schools, traffic are issues in Belle Haven council district
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Three people are vying to represent Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood — which has not been represented on council in 30 years. Cecilia […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto is racially polarized, says attorney who wants to change system for electing school board members
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Asians and Latinos are less likely to win seats on the Palo Alto school board because the city is racially polarized, an attorney […]
San Mateo County
Harbor District seeks public comment about creating sub-districts for board elections
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The San Mateo County Harbor District is asking residents to give their input on how the district should be divided up for elections. […]
Redwood City
Lawyer demands Redwood City switch to district elections for council
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Malibu attorney has sent a letter to Redwood City officials saying they better switch from at-large to district elections for City Council […]
Menlo Park
Santa Clara loses lawsuit over at-large council elections that’s similar to Menlo Park dispute
The city of Santa Clara has lost a lawsuit that is similar to one that has been threatened against Menlo Park over the city’s system of voting for city council […]
Opinion
A sneaky way to influence local government
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Imagine if you could cloak your identity and anonymously change the policy of a local government? Far fetched? Not in California, where it […]
Menlo Park
City may ask residents to approve an open-ended city charter to speed up election changes
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park City Council may soon vote on a new fast-track plan that could dramatically change the way its members are elected. […]
Menlo Park
City revises plan for elections
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park voters won’t get to decide on a City Charter to change how council members are elected until 2020 or even 2022, […]
Menlo Park
City gets 32 applications for committee to draw council district maps
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park City Clerk’s office received a sudden surge of applications for a citizens committee that will draw the boundary lines for […]
Menlo Park
Little interest in council district committee
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Only three people have applied to be on the Menlo Park Advisory Districting Committee, which will draw a map dividing the city into […]
Menlo Park
Proponent of council districts concerned that newcomers will dilute votes of longtime Belle Haven residents
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A proponent of district elections for Menlo Park City Council — to give African Americans and Latinos on the east side a better […]
Menlo Park
Majority of council favors switch to district elections, but other changes could come later
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park voters may be seeing not just one but two election system changes in the coming years. Last night (Oct. 30), the […]
Menlo Park
Injunction sought in Socal case could stop switch to district elections here
Above, the logo for the nonprofit Project of Fair Representation, which is backing the lawsuit that challenges district election. By the Daily Post staff A federal court case in Southern […]
Opinion
Proposal would take away 80% of residents’ voting rights for City Council
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Menlo Park has a problem because residents from the Belle Haven neighborhood haven’t been able to win a seat on the City Council. […]
Menlo Park
City moving toward council elections by district
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park City Council, in response to a threatened lawsuit, voted unanimously last night to take the first step toward switching from at-large […]
Menlo Park
Facing a lawsuit threat, city may switch to district elections
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park City Council will meet Oct. 4 to decide what they should do after a lawyer threatened to sue the city if […]