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Wo'O to you
THOSE WHO SPEND any time in Mountain View have seen the "Idea Farm" truck parked around. I myself have passed it numerous times, figuring we'd write about it eventually.
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on Oct 29, 2009 at 10:32 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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The toot of madness
MANY OF YOU have been writing in to ask about the apparently new, louder and more piercing horns on the Caltrain trains.
"Has anyone else noticed the new noise from the trai... |
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on Jul 31, 2009 at 2:42 pm by Dr. Hibbebrt, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
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Mump and circumstance
MOUNTAIN VIEW residents are normally an easygoing bunch. Rarely does something on the pages of the local newspaper get them too riled up.
It's true they take their schools ... |
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on Dec 21, 2010 at 12:38 pm by \"Just Think About It\", a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
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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 |
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The long goodbye
I'M HEADED to the hospital -- and everything's fine.
It's been a great five years as your editor here, but changes are afoot: I've taken a job at El Camino Hospital, where... |
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on Jun 8, 2010 at 4:21 am by Caryn Coleman, a resident of the Castro City neighborhood |
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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 |
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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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The fifth dimension
"You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind." --Rod Serling
THIS WEEK I read one of the most amazing and wondrous se... |
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on Apr 27, 2009 at 2:28 pm by eric, a resident of another community |
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Un-Dahn
NOT LONG ago I wrote about Dahn Yoga, and the fact that Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga had declared an official "Brain Education Day" in honor of ... well, some kind of pi... |
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on Dec 6, 2009 at 9:42 pm by Real Dahn, a resident of another community |
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Death of a writer
READERS OF OUR Jan. 15 print edition might have noticed an unusual obituary.
"Mark Zamen, an author and longtime Mountain... |
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on Jun 2, 2011 at 1:20 pm by Tom Stoker, a resident of another community |
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Santa sightings
MY GIRLS HAD a marvelous time at the "Winter Fairy Tale," a kids' ballet put on by Bayer Ballet Academy last Sunday at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
Stel... |
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on Dec 24, 2009 at 5:39 pm by Ellen Minkin, a resident of another community |
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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 |
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Get the word out
I'VE GOTTEN some great responses to this week's introduction of Express, our online service which delivers daily headlines by e-mail ( |
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on Mar 10, 2009 at 10:03 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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Big day
LAST WEEK I asked you to send in your stories about Inauguration Day. We got a few nice responses.
One came from none other than Ellen Wheeler, trustee of the Mountain Vie... |
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on Jan 30, 2009 at 4:26 pm by Bob, a resident of the North Whisman neighborhood |
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Flu away
AS NOTED in GoogleWatch, our new blog, the number of people googling the words "swine flu" dropped off precipitously this past week.
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on May 7, 2009 at 6:45 pm by Johnny Robots, a resident of the North Whisman neighborhood |
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Our pledge to you
I GOT A SURPRISE call from my old friend Adriel Hampton over the weekend.
Adriel, a former colleague now living in Dublin (we worked together at the SF Examiner and elsewher... |
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on Apr 7, 2009 at 12:05 pm by GSB, a resident of the Castro City neighborhood |
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Wide world
NOW THAT "the honeymoon is over," and people are practically ready to blame Obama for the recession, is it too late to drag out one last remembrance from Inauguration Day?
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on Mar 10, 2009 at 8:59 pm by Mike Laursen, a resident of the Monta Loma neighborhood |
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Poet didn't know it
IN THIS ECONOMY, you've got to keep yourself open to all opportunities. That's why I thought I'd apply to be Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County.
At first glance the posit... |
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on Feb 9, 2009 at 3:54 pm by GSB, a resident of the Castro City neighborhood |
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What Ken said
"How long will it take for Silicon Valley to save us all from the Great Recession?"
That's the question I |
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on Mar 5, 2010 at 11:38 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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Remember this ...
PATTY GUINTO represents the Northern California chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, which keeps an office at 1060 La... |
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on Feb 25, 2010 at 3:44 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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Y axis
ANDY DOERSCHUK is a Mountain View resident, drummer, founding editor of Drum! magazine, and a s... |
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on Feb 16, 2010 at 11:03 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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A New Year's resolution
THIS MONDAY was the first Monday of the New Year, and I was just back from vacation, and the air was fresh and full of promise. Best of all, my inbox wasn't too full.
Stil... |
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on Jan 5, 2010 at 6:19 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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