ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Holiday Fund recipients awarded $390K in grants A record total of $390,000 in grants, collected from 496 donors, was awarded by the Palo Alto Weekly this year as part of the 19th annual Holiday Fund, announced at a receptio... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 30, 2013 at 10:51 am There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 1, 2013 at 1:06 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Obama and his Red Line: Leading from behind.is not leading Chemical weapons used in Syria. Obama, despite his red line threats, continues to hide behind his own "lead from behind" model. In the meantime, Iraq and Afghanistan are fa... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by James, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Apr 26, 2013 at 3:49 pm There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 26, 2013 at 5:02 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Question On 1970's AllNite TV Anyone Watch Channel 20 or 36 Way Back When ?
There is something, a rather trivial thing that has been bothering me for years ... for decades.
Back in the 1970's there used to be 2 regular TV channels that broadcast ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by 70s TV Watcher, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, on Apr 26, 2013 at 12:34 am There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 26, 2013 at 10:20 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Al Gore at Stanford: 'Democracy has been hacked' Former Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday at Stanford University that America's democratic system has been "hacked" and if the country wants to resolve the "climate crisis" i... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 25, 2013 at 9:58 am There have been 10 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 25, 2013 at 11:58 am.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Condoleezza Rice says immigration reform essential to strong economy Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice led a bipartisan gathering of politicians in Menlo Park on Tuesday to discuss the importance of moving ahead with national immigrati... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 24, 2013 at 10:37 am There have been 23 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 27, 2013 at 11:44 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Mae Mays, wife of Willie Mays, dies at 74 Mae Louise Allen Mays, wife of baseball legend Willie Mays for 41 years, died Friday at their Atherton home after a 16-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was 74.
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Boxes instead of bags Now that we are getting more and more places where there will be no plastic bags and being charged for paper bags, a good alternative will be to use cardboard boxes or plastic... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Apr 22, 2013 at 7:44 am There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 22, 2013 at 4:20 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO National commission: 'School inequality threatens U.S. prosperity' "Not every kid's going to be as lucky as I was," says Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuellar, whose work ethic and smarts propelled him from a mediocre high school on California's ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 21, 2013 at 4:28 pm There have been 24 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 24, 2013 at 9:33 am.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO 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... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 20, 2013 at 11:45 pm There have been 10 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jun 10, 2013 at 10:02 am.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Broken pipe leaves 100 in Midtown without water A water main break in midtown Palo Alto in the area of Middlefield Road and Sutter Avenue early this morning left about 100 customers without water.
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Mtn. View arts committee chair resigns after disputed comments Before City Council members could vote to remove or censure him Tuesday night, Chris Parkinson resigned his post as chair of the city's Visual Arts Committee.
Read the full... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 18, 2013 at 9:10 am There have been 7 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 18, 2013 at 10:06 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Marathoner's account: 'It sounded like thunder' When Anne Trumbore finished the Boston Marathon, she like many of the other runners there, was in a post-run daze. The blasts came as she stood in line to get her personal eff... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 17, 2013 at 5:04 pm
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Man who tried to run over police officer pleads 'no contest' An East Palo Alto man who tried to run over a police officer and deliberately smashed a stolen vehicle into a police van in East Palo Alto pleaded no contest to assault with a... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 17, 2013 at 10:26 am There have been 7 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 18, 2013 at 2:37 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO City asks residents, firms to save energy today Palo Alto's Utilities Department wants city residents and business owners to cut down on electricity use today, after several San Jose Pacific Gas & Electric transformers were... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 16, 2013 at 7:57 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 16, 2013 at 11:03 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO News trickles in about Palo Alto marathoners Thirteen of the 20 Palo Alto residents who were registered for the Boston Marathon have confirmed that they are safe after a pair of blasts at the the event killed three peopl... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 16, 2013 at 8:57 am There have been 9 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 17, 2013 at 12:59 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Manipulation H1-B visa abuse betrays American Tech workers, helped by Zuckerberg's PAC Recently, Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile tech representatives, including immigration law firms and many self-interested others - have taken to creating a PAC to p... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by H-1B FACTS, a resident of the Evergreen Park neighborhood, on Apr 13, 2013 at 4:18 pm There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 15, 2013 at 12:23 am.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO FWD.us lobby group includes Zuckerberg, Schmidt, Musk Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, writing in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal Thursday, announced the launch of a political advocacy group called FWD.us.
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Holocaust Survivors Share Stories in Honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day To truly understand the fear, the pain and the atrocities of the Holocaust, you must listen to those who survived. In honor of Yom Ha’Shoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day, many... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by lew697, a resident of the Charleston Gardens neighborhood, on Apr 12, 2013 at 8:59 am
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Victim stable after East Palo Alto shooting A man was shot in the head in East Palo Alto during a drive-by shooting Wednesday night, according to police.
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Menlo Park: Stanford-Arrillaga plan cuts medical office space by 74 percent As promised, this week Stanford delivered an overview of the latest revisions to its plan for El Camino Real in Menlo Park.
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO Obama budget proposal to affect mortgage interest deduction Anyone have an opinion as to whether a moderate to severe reduction in mortgage interest deduction would affect the PA housing market? Is the market too strong to be dented?
... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Chris Zaharias, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, on Apr 10, 2013 at 8:01 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 13, 2013 at 6:38 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO East Palo Alto house fire suspicious, fire officials say A suspicious one-alarm house fire displaced five residents in East Palo Alto Monday morning, according to fire officials.
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO County asks state Attorney General to investigate DA Rosen The California Attorney General has been asked to investigate a pay-compensation policy District Attorney Jeff Rosen has given to supervising attorneys in his office for the p... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 9, 2013 at 9:40 am There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 21, 2013 at 5:37 am.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO The Iron Lady Passes Margaret Thatcher was a great leader. She joined Ronald Reagan in defeating the socialist thrust, including the victory in the Cold War.
The leftists hated her, and that ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Gary, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood, on Apr 8, 2013 at 4:17 pm There have been 6 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 9, 2013 at 1:10 pm.
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO East Palo Alto police take a public-health approach to fighting crime On a cloudy afternoon at Jack Farrell Park in East Palo Alto, a young girl wearing a helmet and fluorescent safety vest waited eagerly on a bike behind East Palo Alto Police L... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 7, 2013 at 10:20 am There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 8, 2013 at 12:07 pm.