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About Linda
Linda Taaffe is associate editor for the Palo Alto Weekly/PaloAltoOnline.com. She oversees special print projects, including the Home & Real Estate, Neighborhoods and award-winning Info magazines. She coordinates special digital projects such as Searching for their Father's Killer and Palo Alto's Journey into the 21st Century.During the past two decades, Linda has worked as a Bay Area journalist covering education, government, business and neighborhoods. She launched her career as a writer at her hometown paper in Los Altos and was an editor at Bay Area News Group and Silicon Valley Business Journal before joining the Palo Alto Weekly in 2016.
Stories by Linda
TIMELINE: Palo Alto's journey into the 21st century
The Palo Alto Weekly has created a timeline of photos and videos to highlight the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity of this tight-knit community and the people and events that have changed everyday life.[Friday, April 26, 2019]
Book Talk
Alabama author Josephine Bolling McCall will be at the Woman's Club of Palo Alto Authors Program from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., on Tuesday, April 9, to talk about her book, "The Penalty of Success," which recounts her father's lynching in the rural south during Jim Crow when she was just a young girl.[Thursday, March 28, 2019]
Bay Area's largest real-estate firm? It's a New York startup
Compass, the venture-funded real-estate startup that launched its first office in the local market just over two years ago, became the Bay Area's largest residential brokerage firm this month after acquiring Peninsula powerhouse Alain Pinel Realtors for an undisclosed amount on March 9.[Friday, March 22, 2019]
Bay Area's largest real-estate firm? It's a New York startup
Compass, the venture-funded real-estate startup that launched its first office in the local market just over two years ago, became the Bay Area's largest residential brokerage firm this month after acquiring Peninsula powerhouse Alain Pinel Realtors for an undisclosed amount on March 9.[Thursday, March 21, 2019]
Festival showcases Hitchcock's thrillers
Catch your favorite films by the "Master of Suspense" at Stanford Theatre's Alfred Hitchcock Film Festival, which runs from Friday, March 8, through Sunday, April 14.[Thursday, March 7, 2019]
Tesla pulls the plug on showrooms
Palo Alto-based electric automaker Tesla announced on Thursday that it plans to shut down its showrooms and shift sales to online only.[Friday, March 1, 2019]
Book sheds light on Santa Clara County's black pioneers
Author Jan Batiste Adkins' newly released book traces the history of local people of African heritage and their roles in everything from agriculture and technology to politics and education.[Friday, February 22, 2019]
Former Palo Alto transportation head Joseph Kott dies at 71
No matter how daunting a task, Joseph Kott believed that Palo Alto and the greater Silicon Valley region could become a national model for how to cope with a deluge of motor vehicles.[Tuesday, February 19, 2019]
East Palo Alto educational pioneer dies at 91
Gertrude Dyer Wilks, a longtime East Palo Alto resident who became a prominent and powerful figure in the community, died on Sunday, Jan. 20.[Wednesday, January 23, 2019]
Comin' for ya!
Born into the Mardi Gras Indian culture in uptown New Orleans, Cha Wa's lead singer, J'Wan Boudreaux, has lived and breathed street music, pageantry and parades ever since his mother dressed him in his first hand-beaded and feathered parade suit when he was just 2.[Thursday, January 17, 2019]