EDITOR'S DESK
For your brain
"MOUNTAIN VIEW Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga has issued a proclamation stating that May 8, 2009 is Brain Education Day."
So says Lisa Melnick, who wrote on behalf of the San Fran... |
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on May 29, 2009 at 10:34 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
EDITOR'S DESK
How to repair California
There are just too many things going on this weekend, including, of course, the Art & Wine Festival (see you at the Voice booth Sunday morning), and yet another so-calle... |
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on Sep 16, 2009 at 4:38 pm by property owner, a resident of another community |
AROUND TOWN
Drawings, by Julie McNiel, in Mohr Gallery
The Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) at Finn Center in Mountain View will present an exhibition of drawings by Julie McNiel from August 4-September 24, 2007 in Mohr G... |
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on Jul 19, 2007 at 2:47 pm by CSMA, a resident of another community |
EDITOR'S DESK
Local listings
BRIAN SZABO, executive director of KMVT — Mountain View's very own community television station — rang me up earlier this week to call our attention to a story in the ==I Merc... |
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on Jul 17, 2009 at 2:18 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
EDITOR'S DESK
All is revealed
SOME READERS wondered about a cryptic message I put at the end of my column in the May 29 print edition: "Amazing Racers: Head for City Hall!" ("What the heck is that?" [http:... |
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on Jun 9, 2009 at 12:34 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
EDITOR'S DESK
Tips and treats
WORD IS, this Halloween was the last time we'll ever see the world-famous DC Cemetery.
According to this rumor, Brent Ross, the Bush Street resident and designer of Mountain... |
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on Nov 3, 2009 at 3:54 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
HEY TECH!
Google Wave Robots Automate Messages
Last night, Google's Seth Covitz gave an excellent presentation on Google Wave to the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group. With Google ... |
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on Jul 2, 2009 at 3:34 pm by Angela Hey, Mountain View Voice Blogger |
EDITOR'S DESK
Good-bye, she wrote
MY OLD FRIEND and former colleague Tim Hay was once an editor for the Daily Review in Hayward. A few years ago he left that for a new job (he now writes for Dow Jones), ... |
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on Aug 13, 2009 at 3:36 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
EDITOR'S DESK
Weekend plans
I'VE GOT YOUR Saturday and Sunday all worked out for you:
Kick it off Saturday morning with $5 pancake breakfasts courtesy the Mountain View Fire Department. Then spend the ... |
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on Sep 24, 2009 at 1:32 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
GOOGLE WATCH
Insiders criticize Google's hiring practices
As Google posts unexpectedly high profits and begins adding new positions after a hiring freeze, a researcher with the company has found that the tough hiring standards Google... |
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on Apr 18, 2011 at 6:16 pm by Johnny Come Lately, a resident of the Shoreline West neighborhood |
SPORTS
Rugby league is still kicking
In an effort to increase the visibility of the sport he loves so much, the co-founder of the locally based American Youth Rugby Union has declared this week -- Nov. 11 through... |
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on Nov 19, 2012 at 9:11 pm by Paul Lynch , a resident of the Martens-Carmelita neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Grand jury report: School leaders overpaid
Local school officials are rolling their eyes over a civil grand jury report that lambastes the districts for "generous administrative expenses," and some said they wondered w... |
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on Oct 7, 2009 at 5:41 am by Teacher, a resident of another community |
EDITOR'S DESK
Free to shout
OUR RECENT editorial on town hall meetings — specifically, on Rep. Anna Eshoo's "telephone town hall meetings" — had a few readers |
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on Sep 8, 2009 at 11:57 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
EDITOR'S DESK
World in harmony
I MADE MY way to the Community School of Music and Arts on a recent Monday evening with a strange (for me) purpose in mind: to stand in a room with two dozen other people and ... |
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on Oct 14, 2009 at 11:02 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
EDITOR'S DESK
Manifesto
PERSONALLY, I thought our war against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had already been won fair and square.
Yet i... |
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on Apr 1, 2010 at 11:35 pm by What the heck, a resident of the Cuesta Park neighborhood |
HEY TECH!
My favorite browser - Opera
Check out Opera - it's becoming my favorite browser. Has your default browser changed in the last 6 months? Mine is still Firefox - but Opera is good for many sites - I wish... |
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on Oct 1, 2012 at 2:21 pm by marc isaac potter, a resident of the Shoreline West neighborhood |
HEY TECH!
Download NodeXL to create stunning graphical analyses of your email, social networks and more....
Marc Smith, Chief Social Scientist at Telligent Systems, who spent 10 years at Microsoft gave a presentation at the CIO IT Exec Forum last Tuesday ... |
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on Aug 6, 2009 at 12:16 am by Angela Hey, Mountain View Voice Blogger |
EXTRA!CREDIT
16 St. Francis students to pursue college athletics
Sixteen student-athletes from St. Francis High School were honored at lunch ceremony last week for their commitment to continue their athletic careers into college. ==B Congra... |
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on Feb 9, 2010 at 3:36 pm by The Dad, a resident of the Cuesta Park neighborhood |
HEY TECH!
Frustrated user asks "How do I remove myself from Plaxo?"
In April 2007, I wrote about Plaxo - a service that helps people keep their address books up-to-date.
Now, 18 months later, a reader asks "How do I cancel my Plaxo account?... |
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on Sep 16, 2008 at 3:41 pm by Angela Hey, Mountain View Voice Blogger |
HEY TECH!
Brave new world for photo sharing
Photo sharing and viewing is undergoing a revolution. Facebook's plan to buy Instagram developer Burbn for $1 billion in stock and cash underscores how valuable sharing has be... |
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on Apr 27, 2012 at 1:07 pm by Angela Hey, Mountain View Voice Blogger |
AROUND TOWN
El Camino finds new radiology groups
The El Camino Hospital Radiologists Group, Inc. has announced that it is disbanding, and last month the hospital entered into new contracts with two radiology groups.
Read ... |
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on Feb 23, 2008 at 6:47 am by Donna K, a resident of the Cuesta Park neighborhood |
MOVIES
Mountain View High student wins Google open source contest
As the winners of Google's open source contest, 10 high school students and their parents were flown to the company's Mountain View headquarters last week to receive their pri... |
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on Sep 9, 2008 at 9:27 pm by Dave, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
EXTRA!CREDIT
MV high girls take first place at DemandTec challenge in NY
After weeks of preparing, and a win at a regional competition, Mountain View high seniors Jody Zhang and Elise Sugarman took first place in DemandTec's annual Retail Challenge... |
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on Jan 15, 2010 at 8:21 pm by Jonathan Lustig, a resident of the Cuesta Park neighborhood |
EDITOR'S DESK
Sports feed
THE GOOD PEOPLE at KMVT are tireless in coming up with new ways to deliver content to Mountain View residents without hurting their own bottom line. The Internet has been inst... |
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on Dec 1, 2009 at 10:24 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
EDITOR'S DESK
Tweet-tweet
HAVE ANY OF you, my dear readers, been using the Twitter much? No?
Somebody's sure using it, and it isn't just kids. I've seen the likes of Margaret Abe-Koga, Alicia Crank... |
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on Sep 26, 2012 at 3:26 pm by K, a resident of the Sylvan Park neighborhood |
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