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On Deadline blog: Peter Carpenter's mission: warn of employee-benefit 'time bomb'
Every week I get two or three e-mails from Peter Carpenter drumming in a single message: that retirement costs/benefits for public employees are threatening to bankrupt cities... |
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on Dec 24, 2011 at 9:40 am by Peter Carpenter, a resident of Atherton |
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On Deadline: Palo Alto's baylands debate could continue for years, folks
The future of Palo Alto's vast baylands -- a mix of marshlands, open water, mud and hiking/walking/running trails -- has been debated for decades.
The nearly two-thirds v... |
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on Nov 28, 2011 at 7:12 pm by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus |
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On Deadline: When Steve Jobs showed he had some social skills
This blog is not primarily about Steve Jobs. He is mentioned in passing.
It is mainly about a longtime Palo Altan, Carolyn Caddes, a retired portrait-quality photographer an... |
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on Nov 11, 2011 at 9:23 pm by Anon LA, a resident of Los Altos |
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On Deadline: Is 'cheating' ingrained in our schools, or society?
Last weekend hundreds of thousands of American high school seniors -- and some from other nations -- sat down nervously to take the SAT test, that fateful measure of scholasti... |
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on Oct 21, 2011 at 9:11 am by Nayeli, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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On Deadline: New report confirms first-hand knowledge of bay's health
For those of us lucky enough to have had intimate, first-hand contact with the San Francisco Bay over decades, a new report on the bay's health is encouraging, despite some di... |
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on Sep 25, 2011 at 8:34 am by Perspective, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Local question -- Was 'Hurricane Irene' news coverage overblown, so to speak?
After watching some days of Weather Channel and other news coverage of Hurricane Irene I found myself wondering, as a journalist, whether the newspeople along the way were doi... |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 2:27 am by Alice Schaffer Smith, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood |
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On Deadline: A last trip to the city dump -- layoffs, some nostalgia, seagulls
Thursday at 5 p.m. the Palo Alto city dump closed forever to residents for garbage and trash loads. City dump isn't its real name. It's officially the Palo Alto Sanitary Landf... |
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on Jul 29, 2011 at 9:55 am by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus |
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On Deadline: Summer camp can be unforgettable, even if you want to
The Weekly's cover story on summer camps last Friday (July 22) evoked some powerful camp memories of my own, dating back to the mid-1950s -- a measure of the power of the expe... |
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on Jul 28, 2011 at 8:25 am by Jeri Arbuckle, a resident of the Esther Clark Park neighborhood |
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On Deadline: There are many ways to feel 'connected' in school, not all positive
Over the years I have made it a practice to ask adults -- most of them more or less successful in their lives -- if they were straight-A students in high school.
Most just l... |
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on Jul 5, 2011 at 2:25 am by Mr. B, a resident of Menlo Park |
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On Deadline: Does it matter whether 'senior day health' programs survive?
One could easily rephrase the question above: How much do seniors matter to society, our communities, our state or nation?
The answer has a particular relevance to Palo Alt... |
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on Jul 1, 2011 at 6:59 pm by Marie, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Recognizing heroes in a world of stark contrasts
Palo Alto's community-based "Project Safety Net" effort to create a safer environment for young persons received a significant commendation last week (May 10).
The 2-year-... |
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on May 25, 2011 at 2:41 pm by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus |
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On Deadline: Palo Alto's 'UN store' struggling to survive in a new world
The diminutive United Nations Association store -- a landmark in downtown Palo Alto for more than a third of a century -- is struggling for survival against changes in shoppin... |
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on May 21, 2011 at 8:24 am by Perspective, a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Glimmers of hope, but no $$ yet, for 'Free at Last'
Glimmers of hope -- but no real $$ yet -- are on the horizon for Free at Last, the recovery-and-rehabilition organization based in East Palo Alto but serving a broader area of... |
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on May 5, 2011 at 12:37 pm by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus |
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On Deadline: 'Sim City' computer game not enough? Try 'Sim Bay Area'
There's a computer game called "Sim City" -- that's with an M, not an N, although the latter might make it even more interesting for some.
Anyone who has spent time with t... |
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on Apr 8, 2011 at 6:18 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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On Deadline: It's name-calling, fact-enhancing compost season in Palo Alto
When the City Council officially set a special election for next November on the future of a corner of Palo Alto's baylands last week it opened the season of pre-election name... |
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on Mar 30, 2011 at 8:12 pm by Parent, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Cooley Landing at last is about to become a jewel of a park
(Photo -- left to right: Elizabeth Jackson, Shannon Alford, Ruben Abrica, Ashlie Simpson.)
By summer 2012 a new bayfront park will begin to emerge in the Midpeninsula: Cool... |
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on Mar 26, 2011 at 12:25 pm by beautiful park, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Could a quake/tsunami hit Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park? You bet
In the shadow of the double-whammy disaster in Japan (assuming nuclear meltdown doesn't make it a triple) the inevitable question is: Can it happen here?
Well, sure.
I... |
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on Mar 24, 2011 at 7:20 pm by Waves, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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On Deadline, Part the Third: Now for the Top Three of my Top 10 stories
(Continued from Friday, March 11, column/blog.)
My Number 3 top news story: In mid-1966 I was reassigned from the Mountain View bureau of the Times to one of the main "beat... |
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on Mar 16, 2011 at 8:43 am by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus |
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On Deadline, Part the Second: My Top News Stories over 50 years
(Continued from March 9 column/blog.)
My number 7 top story I pegged as "Youth, Family LifeSkills" -- another topic that is still deeply relevant in our community and liv... |
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on Mar 14, 2011 at 8:36 am by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus |
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On Deadline: What would be YOUR top 10 local news stories -- over 50 years?
First of three columns/blogs on my Top 10 choices.
I was at a bit of a loss about what to talk about when I was invited recently to speak at the Palo Alto Rotary Club fol... |
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on Mar 10, 2011 at 6:43 pm by Janice, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Audrey Rust never planned on a career saving open spaces
There's something about open land that draws one in, almost like a vacuum.
But when one experiences the spaces along Skyline Ridge, the lower foothills, the baylands and th... |
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on Mar 8, 2011 at 5:28 pm by musical, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
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On Deadline: Global Community disappears from Palo Alto
A major component of the Palo Alto area’s history for more than a half century came to an end on New Year’s Eve when the Foundation for Global Community officially dissolved i... |
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on Mar 4, 2011 at 6:26 pm by John, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
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Lessons Mary Fortney taught me about living one's life
Lessons Mary Fortney taught me years ago came to mind on learning of her recent death, following a period of health problems and increasing frailty.
She was for many years... |
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on Feb 14, 2011 at 4:40 pm by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus |
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Dr. Walter Bortz -- health care visionary or a Dr. Quixote?
On a spring day in early 1982, I bumped into Dr. Walter M. Bortz, II, a longtime Palo Alto area geriatrician, outside the former Palo Alto Medical Foundation/Clinic building a... |
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on Feb 14, 2011 at 11:15 am by More choice, not less., a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood |
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Who else has a 'The Cat Came Back' story?
Amid the hustle of modern high-tech, high-speed life it's always great to pause for a story about a cat -- or sometimes a dog -- that gets lost or left behind and somehow gets... |
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on Sep 17, 2010 at 6:00 pm by Jocelyn Dong, editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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