Council may spend $719,000 on art for new police station
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The Palo Alto City Council will vote tonight (June 24) on a $719,000 contract with an artist who will create three pieces of art […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The Palo Alto City Council will vote tonight (June 24) on a $719,000 contract with an artist who will create three pieces of art […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor What happened to the idea of simply asking somebody to do something? Instead, people in local government have this mindset that they have […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Six Palo Alto residents — including former mayor Karen Holman — are calling for the Palo Alto City Council to hold off on […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council met in closed session last night (June 17) to discuss a lawsuit filed by a man who claims that […]
By the Daily Post staff The plastic drinking straw ban the Palo Alto City Council is poised to pass tonight (June 10) doesn’t include a disability exemption that other cities […]
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto would ban plastic straws, utensils and cocktail stirrers under legislation that will go to City Council for a vote on Monday (June 10). […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Cubberley Community Center could one day be home to a school, a performing arts center and potentially anywhere between 32 and 164 units […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school board tonight (May 28) will be discussing five-digit increases to the base salary ranges for top administrators, but Superintendent […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A Stanford professor who is an expert on train tunnels is throwing cold water on the idea that Menlo Park might be able […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer At Palo Alto City Hall Monday night, some visiting East Palo Alto City Council members did something unthinkable for many Palo Altans: voice […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council got to grill a former colleague, former Mayor Greg Scharff, last night (Monday, April 29) when he interviewed for […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Former Palo Alto Mayor Greg Scharff, who termed out of City Council in December, is looking at getting involved in city affairs again […]
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 […]
This story originally appeared in this morning’s Daily Post. BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The clean-energy company hired to install and operate solar panels and electric vehicle charging […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Small cell nodes, attachments to utility poles or light poles aimed at improving wireless service, are going to be popping up in more places […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Of the seven members of Palo Alto City Council, no one seems to attract quite as much Twitter backlash as the slow-growth Councilwoman […]
By the Daily Post staff In an unexpected move, Palo Alto City Council tonight (Feb. 110 put the brakes on building a $29 million, 324-space parking garage at Hamilton Avenue […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post correspondent The city of Palo Alto may seek $82 million in affordable housing funds from Stanford, along with money for bridges to separate the Caltrain […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The last handful of tenants remaining in the Hotel President apartments expect to be evicted from their Palo Alto homes soon, but it’s […]
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Allowing rooftop decks to fulfill open-space requirements for new housing projects and easing density restrictions are potential strategies to encourage housing production that the […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The idea of putting Caltrain in a tunnel in Palo Alto is still alive. City Council on Tuesday (Jan. 22) rejected Ed Shikada’s […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer After last year’s nine-member Palo Alto City Council failed to approve more housing than was taken off the market in 2018, the new […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council is set to elect a new mayor and vice mayor for 2019 tonight (Jan. 7), and at least two […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto city leaders spent $5,000 in taxpayer funds to throw a retirement party for former City Manager Jim Keene, according to documents […]
This story was originally printed Dec. 19 in the Daily Post. BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto City Council has approved a nearly $2 million upgrade […]
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor With the new year beginning, many newspapers are taking a look back at 2018’s biggest news stories. But instead of repeating the news you’ve […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The last item of the last agenda of the last meeting of the year for Palo Alto City Council may have finally ended […]
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council, amid an extreme housing shortage, wants to keep a law that is standing in the way of the Hotel […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer After an outcry from swimmers, the Rinconada Masters adult swim club will get to keep training in the Palo Alto pool they’ve used […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer After a decade as Palo Alto city manager, Jim Keene got a lively send-off into retirement at the Garden Court Hotel last night, […]
Update, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 5 p.m. — Jim Keene, who is retiring Dec. 20 after 10 years as Palo Alto’s city manager, is turning down a pay raise City Council […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council made strides last night toward encouraging denser housing development in town, with fewer parking spaces and more roof decks […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor A showdown could happen tonight (Nov. 26) over how much new housing Palo Alto will allow in the future. Palo Alto has arguably […]
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council won’t be presenting a proclamation to Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford at a public meeting in the council […]
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 […]
© Copyright 2023, The Daily Post. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy. Terms of Use.
::after