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AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
The Power Outage: From a Lemon to LemonadeAt 5 p.m. on Saturday, my power went out, along with 7,000 other Palo Alto residents. I think for all of us on the Peninsula, power outages occasionally occur, so...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Mar. 29, 2021Last comment by Bystander, on Apr 14, 2021 at 11:48 am | 16 comments | 4476 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Palo Alto Utilities breeds mistrust with lack of transparency around outagesA week ago the electricity went out across a large section of Palo Alto. About...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Apr. 4, 2021Last comment by Bystander, on Apr 14, 2021 at 11:45 am | 29 comments | 4699 Views
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
Palo Alto has an escalating transparency problem -- the police have shut their doorsOn Monday, April 5, the police chief of Minneapolis, Medaria Arradondo, was testifying at the George Floyd trial about his professional view that defendant Derek...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Apr. 6, 2021Last comment by Ruben Marquez, on Apr 13, 2021 at 12:35 pm | 8 comments | 2775 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Low and slow: New Mountain View pop-up to showcase small-batch, regional barbecueIn upstate New York, where Brandon Irwin grew up, the spiedie sandwich reigned supreme. The...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Mar. 30, 2021Last comment by ChrisC, on Apr 8, 2021 at 7:04 pm | 3 comments | 6917 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
An obsession with English muffins spawns a new business: Skillet Bakery in Redwood City
Skillet Bakery, a new cottage food business in Redwood City, specializes in sourdough English muffins. Photo courtesy Frank Shanahan.
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Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Apr. 2, 2021Last comment by Joy Chase, on Apr 6, 2021 at 11:35 am | 2 comments | 8664 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
About the Express Lanes Coming to 101The Chair of the California Energy Commission, David Hochschild, recently observed that “electricity rates are climate policy”. I agree. We need to design...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Mar. 28, 2021Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Apr 4, 2021 at 2:17 pm | 27 comments | 7911 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Palo Alto wine bar Vino Locale changes hands to customer-turned-ownerThe owners of Vino Locale have sold the downtown Palo Alto wine bar to a customer with a passion for food and wine. Co-owners JC Andrade and Debra Szecsei will...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Mar. 26, 2021Last comment by Julie O, on Apr 2, 2021 at 12:34 pm | 1 comment | 6610 Views
COUPLE'S NET
Love (not Zero)Once while soaking up the beauty of Taos, New Mexico, and the surrounding mountains, valleys, rivers, Rio Grande gorge, aspens, wild flowers, desert terrain, thunder...
Original post made by Chandrama Anderson on Apr. 2, 2021There are no comments yet. 2685 Views
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
The coronavirus vaccine: So we had the capability of sending a man to the moon . . .The incompetency in this country to produce and provide enough COVID-19 vaccines to Americans is most disturbing. As the age-old adage goes, if America can send...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Mar. 20, 2021Last comment by Bystander, on Mar 29, 2021 at 3:17 pm | 17 comments | 5293 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
San Francisco's Humphry Slocombe to bring its inventive ice cream to Redwood CitySan Francisco ice cream favorite Humphry Slocombe is coming to downtown Redwood City this fall. Humphry Slocombe will open its first Peninsula store at 2075 Broadway,...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Mar. 29, 2021There are no comments yet. 4672 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Demystifying heat pump water heatersThere is a surprising amount of water heater inertia in our area -- we are clinging to old-style heaters. I’ve been scratching my head about it. Mid-peninsula...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Jan. 17, 2021Last comment by MrScott, on Mar 28, 2021 at 3:37 pm | 27 comments | 15653 Views
COUPLE'S NET
Trust"Trust is habitual reciprocity that becomes coated by emotion." - David Brooks* What a fantastic definition of trust. I am often asked, "What is...
Original post made by Chandrama Anderson on Mar. 26, 2021There are no comments yet. 4561 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
I don't believe in laundry stripsI don’t believe in laundry strips. Is something wrong with me, and what does this mean for our chances of dealing with climate change?
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Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Mar. 7, 2021Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Mar 21, 2021 at 8:57 pm | 16 comments | 5292 Views
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
What I Saw on Mulberry Street – and other cultural revisionsWriting about racism in our society today is always a delicate – and sometimes a dicey -- matter. Some people, it seems, are rushing to declare a book as “racist”...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Mar. 9, 2021Last comment by ariel fleming, on Mar 19, 2021 at 11:40 am | 72 comments | 9131 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
It is not an easy decision to go to high school in Palo Alto right nowNote: Today’s post is not about climate change, but tune in next week for more climate-related topics. On Thursday morning my tenth-grade daughter...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Mar. 14, 2021Last comment by Bystander, on Mar 19, 2021 at 9:20 am | 25 comments | 11901 Views
COUPLE'S NET
Premarital and Couples: Does Size Matter?All joking aside, a tidbit on gender and the emotional brain in Scientific American Mind (SAM) July/August 2013, shares that women have a larger caudate nucleus...
Original post made by Chandrama Anderson on Mar. 19, 2021There are no comments yet. 5506 Views
COUPLE'S NET
You, Me, and our Marriage (Three Entities)Recently I wrote about the Isaacs definition of love, and it got me to thinking again about the third entity: your marriage (as in each of you and your relationship...
Original post made by Chandrama Anderson on Mar. 12, 2021There are no comments yet. 4879 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Mountain View's Savvy Cellar wine bar reopens under new ownersSavvy Cellar has reopened with new owners who want to breathe fresh life into the decade-old wine bar housed in a former train station in downtown Mountain View. Jim...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Mar. 2, 2021Last comment by Askmrlee, on Mar 11, 2021 at 9:21 pm | 4 comments | 6180 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
At long last, Ludwig's German Table to open with beer and brats in Mountain ViewAfter 26 months and one pandemic, Ludwig's German Table is finally opening its much-anticipated downtown Mountain View beer garden.
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Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Mar. 5, 2021Last comment by Jim Neal, on Mar 11, 2021 at 3:57 pm | 4 comments | 12434 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Kill two birds with one ... mini-split!Mini-splits are the multi-tools of HVAC. They can heat, they can cool, and they are very modular -- you can put in as few or as many as you want, where you want....
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Feb. 28, 2021Last comment by RMRN, on Mar 8, 2021 at 9:05 am | 16 comments | 7325 Views
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