PALO ALTO ISSUES Macabre Page Mill Road ducks scenario "1001 Page Mill Road is a four-building project surrounded by a park-like setting in Stanford Research Park." This is the enticing description (found on the Mozart Development... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Debbie, a resident of Mountain View, on Apr 2, 2007 at 5:15 pm There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 7, 2007 at 12:15 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES New Fiber To The House Solution New Fiber to the toilet solution for the Palo Alto RFP! Where are they going to find the PHDs to hook these things up?
http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by FTTT, a resident of another community, on Apr 1, 2007 at 8:39 am There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 2, 2007 at 3:13 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Persian New Year images inspiring What a beautiful presentation of people and their ways and culture the 'Rite of spring' story was (http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=4774). I saw love, beau... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Ali, a resident of another community, on Mar 30, 2007 at 9:48 am
PALO ALTO ISSUES Immigration and Deportation Come to Palo Alto This story about family breakup was posted yesterday on Palo Alto Online.
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=4784
I don't see how the family breakup h... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by stephen levy, a resident of the University South neighborhood, on Mar 30, 2007 at 7:18 am There have been 43 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 13, 2007 at 12:09 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Alma Plaza editorial Today's issue of the PA Weekly has an editorial calling for decisiveness about Alma Plaza:
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?story_id=4804
Boy, if only the ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Not so fast, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, on Mar 28, 2007 at 8:56 am There have been 7 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 30, 2007 at 5:05 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Storm Drain Tax Shortfall: -- A Harbinger for Library and Police Building Bonds? So it turns out that the city won't have nearly enough to fix the storm drains with the "Fee" (I.e. "Tax") increase the blue ribbon committe told us was desparately needed to ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by RS Sampson, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Mar 26, 2007 at 2:17 pm There have been 71 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 2, 2007 at 6:20 am.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Do Palo Alto Employee Unions Have Too Much Influence? Diana Diamond recently described a City Council Meeting where purple-shirted members of the local City Employees' Union tried (apparently successfully) to forestall the City M... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Chris, a resident of the Palo Alto Hills neighborhood, on Mar 26, 2007 at 8:40 am There have been 12 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 28, 2007 at 4:14 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES When will we see 'mostly liberal" in the Weekly? The March 21 Weekly has an article called "The online opinionator". It contains this fragment:
"... where he shares his mostly conservative thoughts on a range of topics ...... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Bill, a resident of the Professorville neighborhood, on Mar 23, 2007 at 8:10 pm There have been 12 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 29, 2007 at 10:48 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Fact-Based Decision-Making at Alma Plaza Good decisions by policy-makers are based on good information. What information is important to know at Alma Plaza? Facts that should be considered in decision-making includ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Karen White, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, on Mar 23, 2007 at 3:11 pm There have been 27 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 2, 2007 at 6:16 am.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Taser Task Force and the Death of Innocence Watching the Taser task force meetings has helped me temporarily put aside my fears about Tasers. Far more frightening than the threat of Tasers is the way that they are being... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by David Taylor, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood, on Mar 23, 2007 at 3:45 am There have been 16 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 8, 2007 at 2:28 am.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Great article on Walter_E _Wallis Thank you Molly for your article on our friend Walter.
I don't always agree with him, often don't understand him, but love him for his interest, wit and openness. I feel I ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Fan, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Mar 21, 2007 at 4:58 pm There have been 35 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 26, 2007 at 11:01 am.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Briones house column There was an a thread a few weeks ago regarding the Briones house and some posters felt that the current owners should be shunned etc. Here is a link to a column in today's Me... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by What news?, a resident of the Fairmeadow neighborhood, on Mar 21, 2007 at 11:47 am There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 23, 2007 at 8:32 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Do We Owe City Employees Lifetime Employment? Diana Diamond, who has become the bete noir of those wishing to expand the size of government in Palo Alto on another thread here (http://www.paloaltoonline.com/square/index.p... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Chris, a resident of the Palo Alto Hills neighborhood, on Mar 20, 2007 at 12:51 pm There have been 31 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 25, 2007 at 4:56 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES State of the city Apparently our mayor delivered the "state of the City" address yesterday to, according to the story below, a council chambers full of Palo Alto insiders and current and former... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Not so fast, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, on Mar 20, 2007 at 9:01 am There have been 7 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 21, 2007 at 1:38 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Is There Civic Leadership in Palo Alto? Reposted from another topic - seemed worth its own thread...
Where is the organized city leadership in Palo Alto? It's the vacuum created by lack of strong, visible leaders... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by fred, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, on Mar 19, 2007 at 8:35 am There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 19, 2007 at 10:04 am.
PALO ALTO ISSUES More housing here won't reduce Central Valley sprawl I would be more sympathetic with Steve Raney's suggestion (Weekly, March 7 http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?story_id=4568 ) if adding 3,716 homes in Palo Alto me... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Arthur Keller, member of the Planning and Transportation Commission, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood, on Mar 16, 2007 at 2:26 pm There have been 18 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 20, 2007 at 10:58 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Barron Park hillside spraying all about money The lead sentence in the "green" education article on page 3 of the March 7 Weekly http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?story_id=4559 incorrectly presents the "class... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Peter Deutsch, a resident of Menlo Park, on Mar 16, 2007 at 2:20 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Mar 17, 2007 at 12:36 am.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Is PAUSD going to cut down Redwood Trees? There are about 20+ large Redwood trees on the Fairmeadow campus.
The Redwood trees create a natural border line down the backside of Fairmeadow campus, creating a border a... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Mr. Green, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Mar 15, 2007 at 10:25 am There have been 14 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 9, 2012 at 12:15 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES "Deleted by Palo Alto Online" I was curious why some seemingly innocuous (in my mind) comments have been deleted from these blogs. For example, the following two paragraphs were deleted by PAO:
- If yo... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by pat, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Mar 14, 2007 at 11:14 am There have been 20 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 31, 2007 at 3:29 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Leash Laws - Again I choose to let my dog run off-leash. This action knowingly violates the leash law, which I do not support. It's OK to violate a law -- but ONLY if I'm willing to accept the... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Dog Owner, a resident of the Charleston Meadows neighborhood, on Mar 13, 2007 at 4:14 pm There have been 67 comments on this topic, the most recent on Oct 3, 2007 at 10:53 am.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Trying to milk Stanford for money Thank goodness the council could not get the 5 votes for this
http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2007-3-13-03-13-07-pa-hospital-fees
Looks like another example of ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Not so fast, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, on Mar 13, 2007 at 9:39 am There have been 6 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 15, 2007 at 7:42 am.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Palo Alto Zero Waste Operation Plan Discussion The Policy and Services Committee will be evaluating Palo Alto's Zero Waste "Operations Plan". This will be Tuesday at 7:30 PM at City Hall. This is the implementation elemen... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Bob Wenzlau, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, on Mar 12, 2007 at 9:34 am There have been 8 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 13, 2007 at 4:44 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Taxing our way to prosperity ....here comes the business tax Having showed themselves to be completely feckless when dealing with the budgetary issues facing Palo Alto, and unable to cut from spending anything that might offend the usua... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Chris, a resident of the Palo Alto Hills neighborhood, on Mar 10, 2007 at 10:49 am There have been 6 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 11, 2007 at 10:34 pm.
PALO ALTO ISSUES Why does MV have a $32 M surplus and we have a $3M deficit? The city of Mountain View has a $32 million dollar surplus this year (10 was from a lawsuit). Why do they have a surplus, plus a beautiful library, a performing arts center, ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Palo alto mom, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood, on Mar 10, 2007 at 10:24 am There have been 49 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 28, 2007 at 8:44 am.
PALO ALTO ISSUES What's the glitch? Seems that I can only view postings from yesterday and the past. No postings today at all?
Is there a technical difficulty here? Estimated time of repair?
Or are we lo... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by where are you?, a resident of another community, on Mar 9, 2007 at 11:24 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Mar 9, 2007 at 12:14 pm.