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Vote No on Measure FPalo Alto voters please vote no on Measure F! The SEIU has been trying to expand its membership in the healthcare field....
Original post made by Hank Lawrence on Oct. 19, 2018There are no comments yet. 1138 Views
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Covid: Time for local solutions - please!We've been in pandemic mode for months now. Hospitalizations in the Bay Area went over the 700 mark for the first time this...
Original post made by Solutions on Aug. 16, 2020Last comment by Huh?, on Aug 17, 2020 at 5:58 am | 1 comment | 1137 Views
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Back to school and now construction near schools.School is in session less than 2 weeks and there is new road construction all over town and near schools. Arastradero, Amarillo,...
Original post made by Resident on Aug. 23, 2018Last comment by Resident, on Aug 23, 2018 at 1:09 pm | 1 comment | 1123 Views
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Does the water taste different to anyone?Over the last day or two, I noticed that the water in Palo Alto has a strange taste to it. Well, specifically, it has a strange...
Original post made by Nayeli on Jan. 4, 2021There are no comments yet. 1098 Views
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Palo Alto Election Study (scam?)I received an email today with the subject line 'Palo Alto Voter Poll'. The sender's name is just Palo Alto City Council...
Original post made by localvoter on Dec. 3, 2020There are no comments yet. 1097 Views
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Palo Alto had $46M income "surplus" -- go towards $455M pension gap?My understanding is that at the end of the fiscal year, Palo Alto had $46 million in net income. Shouldn't that somehow...
Original post made by Anon on Nov. 19, 2019Last comment by Anon, on Nov 20, 2019 at 10:13 am | 2 comments | 1094 Views
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Rules approved for 'penthouse parklets' on University AvenueDismissing complaints from diners about food chunks and soiled napkins falling on their heads, the City Council this week...
Original post made by HAFD on Apr. 1, 2023Last comment by Steve O, on Apr 1, 2023 at 10:18 am | 2 comments | 1050 Views
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KZSU still broadcasting Council meetings; funding uncertainAs part of budget cuts last year, the City Council voted to stop funding Stanford radio station KZSU-90.1 FM's broadcasts...
Original post made by Jeremy Erman on Jan. 26, 2021There are no comments yet. 1043 Views
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Maastrich buries its traffic underground, Caltrain stays above groundI've just read that the Dutch city of Maastricht has buried the motorway that used to split the city into two and created...
Original post made by atotic on Oct. 16, 2019Last comment by Ahem, on Oct 16, 2019 at 9:50 pm | 3 comments | 1036 Views
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Palo Alto School District COVID Clinics Cancel non-PAUDS AppointsVery disappointed as my daughter showed up at Cubberly Community Center where PAUSD has a Covid Testing Clinic which my daughter...
Original post made by Diana Lee on Jan. 10, 2022There are no comments yet. 943 Views
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Neighbors go unnotified under new housing lawA 2021 California law that allows multiple residences to be built on a single-family lot to increase the state's housing...
Original post made on Dec. 22, 2023Last comment by Resident 1-Adobe Meadows, on Dec 28, 2023 at 1:35 am | 4 comments | 923 Views
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Banning the public from City HallPalo Alto City Hall is now closed to the public — the ground floor is open, but residents, the press and the general...
Original post made on Dec. 1, 2023Last comment by Resident 1-Adobe Meadows, on Dec 6, 2023 at 1:59 pm | 5 comments | 796 Views
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San Antonio RoadSan Antonio Road has become a dumping ground for construction. First Mountain View added hundreds and hundreds of apartments...
Original post made by CCW on Aug. 30, 2022Last comment by Estelle Steinman, on Sep 2, 2022 at 7:55 am | 5 comments | 784 Views
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Surprising facts and factoids about trees in our fair cityPalo Alto loves trees — it has about 600,000. The city's Urban Forestry Section maintains roughly 66,000, about one...
Original post made on Sep. 15, 2023Last comment by Comment, on Sep 15, 2023 at 8:09 am | 1 comment | 720 Views
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Universities Are Plundering Cities. How Can This Relationship Change?"How do universities relate to the cities in which they are located? How does the expanding corporatization of higher education...
Original post made by Priscilla Williams on Aug. 21, 2022There are no comments yet. 719 Views
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Palo Alto needs your opinion on sustainability initiatives and communications!Hi there, I'm a third-year student at Stanford working with the City of Palo Alto's Office of Sustainability to gather information...
Original post made by Member on May. 11, 2023Last comment by Mondoman, on May 11, 2023 at 12:45 pm | 2 comments | 717 Views
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Historic homes $Millions risk to CityToday, in the 2020s, a historic preservation designation without homeowner approval might expose our City to hundreds of...
Original post made by Mike Forster on Sep. 1, 2023Last comment by Penelope Walsh, on Sep 4, 2023 at 12:58 pm | 5 comments | 685 Views
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As Palo Alto relaxes rules for tree removal, some urge broader overhaulWhen Palo Alto passed an ambitious tree-protection law in 2022, its aim was to shield the city's treasured canopy from destruction. Read...
Original post made on Jan. 19, 2024Last comment by Online Name, on Jan 19, 2024 at 4:29 pm | 2 comments | 639 Views
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The Reconing, part 3Congratulations Gennady Sheyner and The Weekly for this extraordinary investigation and 3 reports on this infamous perpetration...
Original post made by John on Jan. 24, 2024There are no comments yet. 250 Views
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