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Equity prepares to buy East Palo Alto apartments
Despite protests from the community and concern from the City Council, Wells Fargo Bank is now finalizing its sale of more than 1,800 housing units in East Palo Alto to a sing... |
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East Palo Alto re-opens Woodland Ave. after flood repairs
Residents of a flood-prone neighborhood in East Palo Alto can rest easier now that the first phase of repairs to the San Francisquito Creek bank have been completed.
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Garden Tips
Change your garden? Change your schedule
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, June 7, 2013, 12:00 AM |
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Using X-Rays, Scientists uncover 200-year-old opera ending
One of the biggest mysteries about the opera "Médée" by late 18th-century composer Luigi Cherubini is why its last few pages are blacked out with charcoal. For centuries the o... |
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on Jun 17, 2013 at 4:14 pm by curmudgeon, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood |
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Match girl in the city of light
William Byron Webster is used to talking to newspapers. He's been a community activist in his city of East Palo Alto for 25 years. Toss him a question about parcel taxes or af... |
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on Jun 17, 2013 at 2:58 pm by Hmmm, a resident of East Palo Alto |
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Bloomberg to headline Stanford commencement
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will speak at Stanford University's 122nd commencement ceremony Sunday, June 16, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Stanford Stadium. The event i... |
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on Jun 14, 2013 at 7:17 pm by Wondering?, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Bike Safety
It seems that we are reading about bike collisions in the Palo Alto area on a weekly basis. Bicycle riding has increased over the past few years and the rules for bikes have n... |
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on Jun 14, 2013 at 12:34 pm by Actually, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Palo Alto treads cautiously toward new downtown garage
Everyone agrees that downtown Palo Alto is facing a parking crisis, but the city's latest solution to the problem -- a new five-story garage built in partnership with a privat... |
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on Jun 12, 2013 at 9:56 pm by Justin, a resident of Mountain View |
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Student with 3.85 GPA gets rejection letters from UCs
Hi,
My friend's daughter got 3.85 GPA, had 5 AP classes in high school, was on competitive swimming team, volunteered 100+ hours, was active in school activities, yet she g... |
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on Jun 11, 2013 at 12:32 pm by handsofmom, a resident of Menlo Park |
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East Palo Alto wins 'grassroots' redevelopment award
In the last undeveloped area of East Palo Alto, most see empty fields, vacant lots and long underutilized, decrepit industrial buildings -- one of which used to house a pestic... |
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on Jun 11, 2013 at 10:12 am by Victoria, a resident of East Palo Alto |
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Media Center explores immigrants' tales
Ingeborg Baehr Hirschhorn's immigration story did not start out like the stories of the generation before her, immigrants who came to America from grinding poverty.
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on Jun 10, 2013 at 10:55 am by Ellen, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood |
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Eshoo to host Saturday meeting on gun control
The topic of gun legislation, and the Senate's failure this week to pass a bill to strengthen the nation's gun laws, will be the subject of a Saturday community meeting hosted... |
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on Jun 10, 2013 at 10:02 am by Sandy Hook, a resident of the The Greenhouse neighborhood |
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Peninsula College Fund names 2013 honorees
Fifteen local high-school graduates will be honored June 18 by the Peninsula College Fund, a nonprofit aimed at helping low-income, first-generation college students achieve e... |
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on Jun 7, 2013 at 2:44 pm by moi, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Republicans win key US Senate election in Massachusetts
This is the BBC Web Link
This is huge, Obama staked his reputation by campaigning in MA this weekend.
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on Jun 5, 2013 at 11:36 pm by Accountability, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood |
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Santa Clara County hepatitis case linked to berries from Costco
A 22-year-old Santa Clara County woman is the first confirmed case of Hepatitis A linked to a multiple-state outbreak linked to frozen berries sold at Costco stores, officials... |
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on Jun 5, 2013 at 3:54 pm by CrescentParkAnon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Obamacare to more than double premiums for individual insurance in the Bay Area
Despite recent attempts to portray the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) as a winner for California citizens, regarding premiums, it is exactly the opposite.
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on May 31, 2013 at 6:02 pm by John, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Police arrest 27 in East Palo Alto crackdown
One week after East Palo Alto police Chief Ron Davis responded to a spike in gun violence by declaring a crime emergency in the city, patrol units have made 27 arrests in a cr... |
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on May 29, 2013 at 5:52 pm by Jazzed, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood |
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Palo Alto VA aims to curb deaths from sepsis
A blue bus parked outside the Palo Alto Veteran Affair's Medical Center on Miranda Avenue has been the center of a statewide program that aims to change the way hospitals appr... |
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on May 29, 2013 at 10:43 am by Hospitals-Kill-More-People-Than-Guns, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Stanford rewards walk-bike commuters with cash
Stanford University faculty and staff who walk or bike to work will now not only feel good about helping the environment, but they'll receive cold, hard cash for doing so.
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on May 24, 2013 at 9:54 am by Charlie, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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Ruthless silenced
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill , where he’s expected to be grilled over the Justice Department’s decision to secretly seize the work, home and ce... |
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on May 23, 2013 at 6:04 pm by Crescent Park Dad, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Stanford: Earth's core is surprisingly weak
Stanford University researcher Arianna Gleason and assistant professor Wendy Mao discovered that the Earth's inner core is much weaker than had been previously thought.
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on May 22, 2013 at 6:11 pm by Office Decor Robbie , a resident of the University South neighborhood |
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Rail authority slammed for lax contract oversight
The agency charged with building a high-speed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles violated state law when it awarded contracts for information-technology service... |
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on May 21, 2013 at 9:43 am by Renea, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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East Palo Alto girls create app to clean up graffiti, trash
Vanessa Tostado, a sophomore at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, remembers watching a video in computer science class this year that stuck with her.
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on May 21, 2013 at 7:58 am by Michael, a resident of Stanford |
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Daytime shooting victim probably shot self
A 19-year-old man injured in a shooting in East Palo Alto Friday
afternoon probably shot himself, police Chief Ronald Davis announced on Twitter.
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on May 20, 2013 at 9:59 am by That User Name is already, a resident of another community |
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Stanford study finds 'killer frog' in San Francisco
Killer frogs are on the loose in San Francisco. They don't kill humans, but there is a frog that is carrying a deadly infection that is destroying the amphibian population aro... |
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on May 17, 2013 at 8:31 am by Strum und Drang, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |