AROUND TOWN
Traffic Circle Barriers
Has anyone seen the ugly rubber traffic circle at the intersection of Rose Avenue and Fordham Way in Mountain View? It is so ugly. It looks like a track for remote controlled...
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OTHER ISSUES
A soldier's romance
Everything changed for Jason Poole, a U.S. Marine on his third tour of duty in Iraq, when a bomb blew up in his face in 2004. Today, despite his injuries, Poole has found true...
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OTHER ISSUES
The original Big Mac
In the 1940s and '50s, Johnny Mac's, an "American Graffiti"-style drive-in on El Camino Real, was the place to be for Mountain View teens. Today, the iconic building stands va...
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AROUND TOWN
Union rallies at Google's doorstep
More than 100 union supporters gathered next to Google's headquarters Thursday evening to demand that the Internet giant address efforts to organize a union at the company's p...
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RESTAURANTS
More restuarants bite the dust
Pick Up Stix at El Camino and El Monte abruptly closed, and how I've heard that California Roadhouse is gone.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS
MVLA passes district goals
During its regular meeting Monday, the board of the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District unanimously adopted three-year district goals to improve student academi...
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SCHOOLS & KIDS
Two shot, one dead after Thursday night mayhem
Two possibly related shootings in the Old Mountain View area Thursday night left one person mysteriously and fatally shot in a crashed SUV on El Camino Real and another stumbl...
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AROUND TOWN
Letters to the Editor
Wrong to blame schools for society's ills
Read the full story here http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=3762 posted Friday, February 8, 2008, 12:00 AM
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AROUND TOWN
Grocery store chain eyes Rengstorff site
To the extreme delight of Monta Loma neighborhood residents, the long-vacant Golden Phoenix supermarket at Rengstorff and Middlefield roads will soon reopen as a Fresh & Easy ...
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OTHER ISSUES
Prop 93's demise pits Lieber against Kniss
Due to the failure of state Proposition 93, Mountain View's Sally Lieber says she will be stepping down from her state Assembly seat and making a run against county Supervisor...
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OTHER ISSUES
School districts see budget storm coming
Local school officials say they are hoping for the best and planning for the worst as they assess what could happen if the state slashes the education budget as promised by Go...
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OTHER ISSUES
What do you think Google should do re: Yahoo?
Mountain View company, Google, has posted a blog that objects to Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!.
See http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/yahoo-and-future-of-internet.html
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OTHER ISSUES
Muscles of iron, heart of gold
In January of 2005, Mountain View resident Christina Davis had the same New Year's resolutions many of us have — lose weight, get in shape, meet new people, and, now tha...
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AROUND TOWN
SmugMug smiles for the camera
Chris MacAskill spent childhood life on Oakland's streets and could easily have become a homeless statistic. Instead, he gained a master's degree in geophysics from Stanford, ...
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AROUND TOWN
'Mr. White Boy was in the Nortenos'
Except for a few bumps in the road, Jacob DeWitt had a normal upbringing in Mountain View, say local residents who knew him. Today, the 19-year-old sits in jail, accused of st...
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AROUND TOWN
Means: Say what you mean
When incoming Mayor Tom Means told the Voice what his goals were for the year, he didn't talk about fixing major problems like transportation, crime or housing. He ...
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OTHER ISSUES
Letters to the Editor
Desperate and diner-less
Read the full story here http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=3616 posted Friday, December 14, 2007, 12:00 AM
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AROUND TOWN
Murlagan house used for fire training
"Don't worry, we've only lost a few reporters since we started doing this," joked fire department spokesman Lynn Brown.
Read the full story here http://www.mv-voice.com/news/...
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SCHOOLS & KIDS
2008 Summer Camp Scholarships
Is your middle school child interested in going to summer camp at one of Mountain View's most popular camps: CSMA, PYT or KMVT? Or does your child have an interest in painti...
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OTHER ISSUES
Letters to the Editor
Not another liquor store at Moffett, Central
Read the full story here http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=3714 posted Friday, January 25, 2008, 12:00 AM
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