Palo Alto
Illegal fireworks season begins early
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer More than 1,500 pounds of fireworks have been seized by a task force made up of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District and […]
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East Palo Alto
Attempt to fire city attorney fizzles out
This story was originally printed in the May 21 Daily Post. To get all of the local news first, pick up the Post in the morning at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. […]
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Council, haunted by break it gave to Amazon in 2017, delays approval of 7-story building
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The East Palo Alto City Council has put off approving a seven-story office building at Donohoe Street and University Avenue, behind the Chevron, […]
East Palo Alto
Board names school after Cesar Chavez
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Ravenswood School Board has voted to rename the district’s middle school after the late labor leader Cesar Chavez. The board voted 3-1 […]
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Leaders of three cities meet but don’t agree about housing bill SB50
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 […]
East Palo Alto
Menlo Park, EPA and Palo Alto councils meet tonight (May 6) to talk about housing
By the Daily Post staff For the first time in recent memory, the city councils of Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park will get together to hold a […]
East Palo Alto
Proposal to absorb Ravenswood into Sequoia draws reaction
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Local officials yesterday (March 6) reacted to Menlo Park Mayor Ray Mueller’s suggestion that the Sequoia Union High School District absorb the Ravenswood […]
East Palo Alto
School board gets cheers for suspending superintendent
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Cheers filled the Ravenswood City School District’s board room last night when the board entered the room after placing its controversial superintendent on […]
East Palo Alto
East Palo Alto candidates differ over RV influx
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The candidates for East Palo Alto City Council have different ideas for how the city ought to deal with the influx of RVs […]
East Palo Alto
Two mid-Peninsula city councils to get a raise
By the Daily Post staff East Palo Alto and San Carlos city council members have voted to increase their pay, but neither council decided to give itself the largest raise […]
East Palo Alto
Longtime East Palo Alto leaders face five challengers in council election
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Two of East Palo Alto’s most familiar faces — Donna Rutherford and Ruben Abrica — are seeking re-election to city council after a […]
East Palo Alto
County leaders divided over Measure W, the half-cent sales tax for SamTrans
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A state assemblyman is backing the SamTrans half-cent sales tax measure while San Mateo County’s Republican party has come out against it. Kevin […]
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East Palo Alto to vote on tech tax
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer East Palo Alto City Council has decided to put a tax on businesses on the November ballot, making it the second mid-Peninsula city […]
East Palo Alto
Former and current council members told to repay $50,000 in reimbursements they received
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer East Palo Alto’s city manager and city attorney are asking five current and three former city council members to get out their checkbooks […]
East Palo Alto
Pressure grows to oust Ravenswood superintendent
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Allegations of mishandling funds, nepotism and disrespecting employees are among the reasons parents, employees and residents are giving for why the school board […]
East Palo Alto
Angry parents keep children home to protest principal’s removal
By EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Scores of parents kept their kids home from Belle Haven Elementary in Menlo Park yesterday (April 4) to protest the superintendent’s removal of […]
East Palo Alto
Mayor claims Ravenswood has a ‘culture of corruption’ — district responds
In the financially troubled Ravenswood City School District, the superintendent has put her son on the payroll and a board member’s domestic partner was hired to run the preschool, East […]
East Palo Alto
Council split over marijuana stores; both sides cite city’s past with drugs
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A divided East Palo Alto Council was not able to decide last night (Jan. 9) whether to allow marijuana businesses in the city, […]
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Cities pick new mayors for 2018 — more diversity this year
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Most of the city and town councils in the Post’s circulation area have picked their new mayor and vice mayor for 2018, half […]