ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Freedom of Speech in Egypt
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - An Alexandria court convicted an Egyptian blogger on Thursday for insulting both Islam and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced him to ... |
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on Feb 28, 2007 at 11:47 am by Draw the Line, a resident of Stanford |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Internet house shoppers
For our Spring Real Estate special section, I'd like to include a trend story on people who have begun their house-hunting expeditions by going online. What sites have been mo... |
Carol Blitzer -- Asst. Editor, Palo Alto Weekly |
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on Feb 28, 2007 at 11:38 am by Carol Blitzer -- Asst. Editor, Palo Alto Weekly, a resident of the University South neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Missing Stanford Student - this is a Palo Alto issue
There is a Stanford Student missing since last Saturday. I have seen nothing about town and very little in the media. This is an issue that affects all of us. Please let us do... |
Palo Alto Resident |
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on Feb 27, 2007 at 11:52 pm by Stanford Alumni \\\'01, a resident of Stanford |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Will Al Gore call for the shutting down of coal fired electric generating plants?
Since coal fired power plants emit enormus amounts of CO2 and other toxic pollutants, including mercury and radioactive materials into the atmosphere they must be phased out ... |
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on Feb 26, 2007 at 9:07 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Tips on visiting Santiago, Chile?
We are traveling to Santiago for spring break with our son's soccer team with a mixed group of 16 year-old boys and parents, and are looking for any suggestions on sight-seein... |
Terri L |
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on Feb 26, 2007 at 11:41 am by D, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
There seems to be an elephant in the room when talking about the enviroment,air pollution,CO2, dependance on oil
There is a lot of talk about pollution, global warming and dependance on foeign oil, but no one or almost no one is talking about an obvious problem and rather straight-forwar... |
GGRick |
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on Feb 26, 2007 at 5:25 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Environmental Health of Portable Classrooms
While I have heard much discussion of school population with respect to portables, I haven't heard anything about the issue of the health impacts to those spending time in the... |
Annette |
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on Feb 24, 2007 at 7:47 pm by SkepticAl, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
PA Junior Museum: Independence or Boondoggle?
In an article dated October 17, reporter Becky Trout used the term “independence” to describe the arrangement currently being ratified between the City and the Friends of the... |
Ron Lee |
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on Feb 24, 2007 at 7:26 pm by Aleks, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Are PAUSD Schools Excellent?
I stretched myself thin to move to Palo Alto, and I squeezed my three kids into a small 1000 square foot house (1 bathroom, no dishwasher, no garbage disposal, 3 small bedroom... |
Working Mother of Three |
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on Feb 24, 2007 at 4:33 pm by parent, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
To live with violence or live in peace?
I went alone to the Live in Peace march and rally held in East Palo Alto on Saturday, Feb. 3.
My best friend found that was pretty bold of me. She felt at least when you go ... |
Mikaya Strickling |
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on Feb 24, 2007 at 4:20 am by Matthew Kortenhoven, a resident of East Palo Alto |
AROUND TOWN
Older cyclists must be role models for youth
I know we have had threads before on cyclists not stopping at stop signs, but an incident this morning has made me take this up again.
I was driving my freshman to Paly bec... |
Parent |
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on Feb 23, 2007 at 11:04 am by gordon, a resident of the St. Claire Gardens neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Weighing in on City Planning
Web Link
Here's an interesting study that correlates walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods with health. If this work proves to be v... |
Periwinkle |
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on Feb 23, 2007 at 8:50 am by E.B., a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
City Council Changing the World
While channel surfing last night, I caught the City Council discussing the need to increase their allowance for travel by a few thousand dollars (full disclosure, I have never... |
BeHumble |
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on Feb 21, 2007 at 6:52 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
is duveneck overflown this year?
I registered my kid for the neighborhood school Duveneck in early Jan for their kindergarden class starting fall 2007. I have not received anything yet from the school about ... |
a new duveneck parent |
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on Feb 21, 2007 at 2:00 pm by Parent, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Long Time Residents vs. Developer / Prop Rights
Where should the line be drawn? Should developers who will not live in the neighborhoods where they build have more stringent rules?
A majority of the neighbors on my stree... |
Metzler McVey |
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on Feb 21, 2007 at 1:19 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Elementary school placement
What experiences have you had with elementary school placement? Which school would we most likely be placed into for 5th grade next school year? Are all the schools OK? What d... |
Lillian Kvitko |
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on Feb 21, 2007 at 12:57 pm by DJ, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Should we name anything after a non-resident?
I have nothing against Martin Luther King or Mrs. King, their heritage or their legacy. But neither had anything remotely to do with Palo Alto - and at that years after the Re... |
Kate |
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on Feb 20, 2007 at 11:20 pm by joyce, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
No-spanking is not for state to decide
The biggest problem that I have with State Assemblywoman Sally Lieber’s (D-Mountain View) proposal to ban parents from spanking a child under the age of 3 is that it is more g... |
Diana Diamond |
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on Feb 20, 2007 at 7:24 pm by Ann, a resident of Menlo Park |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
Spending $1 million - just for a 'study’ of a new police station
$1,037,490. That is the amount the Palo Alto City Council unanimously agreed to spend last Monday night for a new police building “study” on initial design, environmental revi... |
Diana Diamond |
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on Feb 20, 2007 at 4:52 pm by Chris, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
MOVIES
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to Los Altos
This years showing of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour in Los Altos is a benefit for nonprofit Snowlands Network (www.snowlands.org) whose advocacy work promotes op... |
Marcus Libkind |
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on Feb 20, 2007 at 10:22 am by Marcus Libkind, a resident of Los Altos |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Vulture Funds
A recent BBC report has exposed an extremely insidious operation to drive cash strapped third world counties into deeper debt. A shadowy group of companies, known as the “vult... |
Jag Singh |
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on Feb 19, 2007 at 3:02 pm by Tim, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Climate change and planning for our kids' futures
Is a habitable planet as important as, say, a good college education? There's a big disconnect in this community around attitudes about global warming, particularly for those ... |
PA Concerned Mom |
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on Feb 18, 2007 at 10:15 pm by OhlonePar, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
What happened to civility?
What kind of a community do we want? If you read Town Square postings on school district issues, would you want to be the new superintendent of the Palo Alto Unified School Di... |
Mandy Lowell & Carolyn Tucher |
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on Feb 18, 2007 at 1:03 pm by Anna, a resident of the South of Midtown neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Actually, we get on very well together
To read some of what has been said in this forum recently, one might think we are racist, hateful and constantly ear bashing each other. If someone just dropped here from anot... |
Parent |
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on Feb 18, 2007 at 12:40 pm by Carol, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Are they moving that old church?
Does anyone know what they are doing with that building on Ramona near downtown? It looks like they are going to move it. Any idea on what's going on? If they are moving it, w... |
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on Feb 18, 2007 at 8:08 am by Carol, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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