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Shop Talk: More mall, restaurants flock downtownIn this week's Shop Talk column, read the latest on Stanford Shopping Center's big expansion, three new restaurants set to...
Original post made on Aug. 18, 2014Last comment by Ed Keyani, on Aug 21, 2014 at 4:44 pm | 4 comments | 46098 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Parents, school officials, exchange tense wordsFrustrated parents interrupted school district officials Sunday evening in a sometimes tense discussion of the emotional...
Original post made on Feb. 14, 2011Last comment by Bill Johnson, on Feb 25, 2011 at 6:26 pm | 166 comments | 46083 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Palo Alto couple presses for 'sense of urgency' in relieving academic stressIt seemed to come like a shot from nowhere. Ken and Michele Dauber, Palo Alto parents of five, called for "new leadership"...
Original post made on May. 13, 2011Last comment by David Pepperdine, on Feb 10, 2014 at 6:21 am | 167 comments | 46061 Views
MOVIES
Story's the thing: The best and worst movies of 2011Only two movies made it onto all the Weekly film critics' "best" lists for 2011, and they've got one thing in common: a focus...
Original post made on Jan. 6, 2012Last comment by Anon., on Jan 9, 2012 at 10:20 am | 10 comments | 45913 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Editorial: Elusive bullying policiesIt is bad enough that the Palo Alto school district has still not complied with state anti-bullying laws that took effect...
Original post made on Nov. 15, 2013Last comment by SPSA Boad of Education Meetings , on Nov 17, 2013 at 7:12 pm | 30 comments | 45832 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Achievement test data sparks heated discussionResponding to criticism that he's excessively focused on test scores, Palo Alto School District Superintendent Kevin Skelly...
Original post made on Nov. 9, 2011Last comment by Finland does it better, on Nov 21, 2011 at 11:49 pm | 124 comments | 45442 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Paly students find a fiery passion in glassblowingHeat, light and camaraderie fuel a well-ordered space on the northern edge of the Palo Alto High School campus, where more...
Original post made on Sep. 6, 2013Last comment by Kelli Hagen, on Sep 8, 2013 at 3:44 pm | 6 comments | 45242 Views
AROUND TOWN
Stanford grad's site nets Southwest 'cease and desist'When Nikil Viswanathan created a website to automatically check himself in to his flights on Southwest Airlines in January,...
Original post made on Oct. 23, 2012Last comment by some smarter guy, on Nov 3, 2012 at 12:22 pm | 47 comments | 44709 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Palo Alto - Get Style!I have come to the conclusion that Palo Altans are among the worst-dressed people in the Western world. I'm from here, so...
Original post made by PAStyleMatters on Oct. 13, 2011Last comment by Hmmm, on Oct 19, 2011 at 3:36 pm | 69 comments | 44629 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Power surge raises questions about SmartMetersWhen 80 PG&E SmartMeters caught on fire and burned out after a power surge in East Palo Alto on Aug. 25, the incident raised...
Original post made on Sep. 4, 2011Last comment by What Color Are Their Helicopters?, on Feb 2, 2016 at 11:30 pm | 25 comments | 44471 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Price tag swells for California high-speed rail projectThe cost of California's proposed high-speed-rail system, originally pegged at about $36 billion, has nearly tripled since...
Original post made on Nov. 1, 2011Last comment by Public Private partnership, on Jan 22, 2012 at 3:25 pm | 52 comments | 44452 Views
AROUND TOWN
Weekly completes new, green headquartersAfter 30 years in downtown Palo Alto, the Palo Alto Weekly is moving to new headquarters — an environmentally friendly,...
Original post made on Sep. 26, 2009Last comment by EJ, on Sep 28, 2009 at 12:16 pm | 7 comments | 44449 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Driven to succeed: How we're depriving teens of a sense of purposeMany Palo Alto adolescents spend their high school years in a contest for credentials, accumulating grades, scores and accolades...
Original post made on Nov. 18, 2011Last comment by Citizen, on Nov 30, 2011 at 4:33 pm | 71 comments | 44405 Views
AROUND TOWN
Programs at VA Palo Alto helping treat PTSDThough post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is most often thought to be associated with military veterans, anyone can...
Original post made on May. 4, 2012Last comment by Former-Soldier, on May 6, 2012 at 8:37 am | 5 comments | 44360 Views
RESTAURANTS
Stanford Shopping Center announces further renovation plansStanford Shopping Center will enjoy a shopping spree of its own over the next two years, spending millions of dollars to...
Original post made on Aug. 1, 2014Last comment by DonaldT, on May 9, 2016 at 12:16 pm | 33 comments | 44199 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
New voices join Palo Alto's growth debatePalo Alto's aggressive push to get the public more involved in upgrading the city's official land-use vision appeared to...
Original post made on Aug. 5, 2014Last comment by Ahem, on Aug 14, 2014 at 12:31 am | 252 comments | 43962 Views
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Former Stanford student found guilty in fatal DUI caseA 28-year-old man who drove the wrong way down U.S. Highway 101 in 2013, killing one man and seriously injuring two others,...
Original post made on Nov. 18, 2017Last comment by F, on Dec 1, 2017 at 6:51 pm | 16 comments | 43677 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Fines proposed for construction laggardsSeeking to clamp down on mysterious, blight-inducing and seemingly never-ending construction projects, Palo Alto is preparing...
Original post made on Nov. 13, 2013Last comment by localmom, on Nov 14, 2013 at 6:32 pm | 8 comments | 43419 Views
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Menlo Park father intends to plead guilty to an unspecified charge in college admissions scamA Menlo Park man intends to plead guilty to an as-yet unspecified charge in the $25 million college admissions scam which...
Original post made on Apr. 3, 2019Last comment by Sanctimonious City, on Apr 3, 2019 at 8:45 pm | 2 comments | 43234 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Startup schools for 'gifted' emerge as state cuts public fundingAs public schools reduce extra services for gifted children following state funding cuts, a few startup private schools and...
Original post made on Aug. 31, 2012Last comment by Vivian, on Jun 18, 2016 at 9:06 am | 72 comments | 43069 Views
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