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Letters to the editor<B>Keep looking Read the full story here https://www.mv-voice.com/print/story/2019/06/21/letters-to-the-editor posted Friday,...
Original post made on Jun. 23, 2019Last comment by @Valentin Abramzon, 5 minutes ago | 3 comments | 102 Views
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Public Works spent $3 million on North Bayshore studiesCity officials have spent more than $3 million on a variety of transportation consultants as part of Mountain View's quest...
Original post made on Jun. 16, 2019Last comment by The Business Man, on Jun 18, 2019 at 6:58 pm | 7 comments | 1298 Views
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Council backs plan to retrofit apartments at risk of quake collapseThe Mountain View City Council agreed Tuesday night on a plan to retrofit hundreds of aging apartment buildings considered...
Original post made on Jun. 9, 2019Last comment by @Steve Nelson, on Jun 14, 2019 at 10:09 am | 6 comments | 2923 Views
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Council members respond to the Voice's editorial on housingIt is disappointing that the <I>Voice</I></B> chose to write an incomplete editorial, sensationally titled "A crisis of character"...
Original post made on Jun. 7, 2019Last comment by The Business Man, on Jun 10, 2019 at 11:18 am | 10 comments | 796 Views
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Council votes to ban storefront pot shops in Mountain View, allowing only delivery servicesThe Mountain View City Council agreed to ban storefront cannabis businesses from opening anywhere in the city, instead allowing...
Original post made on May. 24, 2019Last comment by OldGuy, on Jun 4, 2019 at 12:37 am | 44 comments | 5022 Views
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Mountain View City Council appoints own finance director as auditorTo find someone to audit the bookkeeping at City Hall, Mountain View City Council members didn't have to look far. Last week,...
Original post made on May. 28, 2019Last comment by The Business Man, on May 31, 2019 at 3:53 pm | 8 comments | 1734 Views
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Letters to the editor<B>RV ban won't accomplish anything Read the full story here https://www.mv-voice.com/print/story/2019/05/24/letters-to-the-editor...
Original post made on May. 24, 2019Last comment by Gary, on May 24, 2019 at 5:40 pm | 1 comment | 229 Views
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Letters to the editor<B>Marijuana sales Read the full story here https://www.mv-voice.com/print/story/2019/05/17/letters-to-the-editor posted...
Original post made on May. 17, 2019Last comment by Gary, on May 17, 2019 at 1:14 am | 1 comment | 248 Views
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Contentious state housing bill punted to 2020Senate Bill 50, a contentious bill that aimed to encourage more housing near transit, suffered a setback Thursday when the...
Original post made on May. 17, 2019Last comment by , on May 17, 2019 at 12:46 am | 1 comment | 1596 Views
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Council aims to bring rent control to mobile home parksResidents of Mountain View's six mobile home parks scored a long-awaited victory at Tuesday's City Council meeting when a...
Original post made on Apr. 28, 2019Last comment by The Business Man, on May 1, 2019 at 4:47 pm | 12 comments | 2331 Views
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Letters to the editor<B>Let them build elsewhere Read the full story here https://www.mv-voice.com/print/story/2019/04/26/letters-to-the-editor...
Original post made on Apr. 26, 2019Last comment by Gary, on Apr 26, 2019 at 5:53 am | 1 comment | 548 Views
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Bills to encourage housing density near transit advance in SenateTwo state bills that would allow more housing density in transit corridors cleared their first legislative hurdles this week,...
Original post made on Apr. 6, 2019Last comment by The Business Man, on Apr 8, 2019 at 7:13 pm | 4 comments | 1839 Views
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Tenants Coalition pledges to fight RV banThe group formerly known as the Mountain View Tenants Coalition announced Friday that it will work to overturn a forthcoming...
Original post made on Mar. 25, 2019Last comment by Otto_Maddox, on Mar 29, 2019 at 2:45 pm | 11 comments | 2928 Views
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Mayor's misfire email suggests she wants to thwart housing plansA message sent out accidentally by Mayor Lisa Matichak is being seized on as proof she is trying to undermine housing development...
Original post made on Mar. 7, 2019Last comment by The Business Man, on Mar 26, 2019 at 1:02 pm | 134 comments | 11458 Views
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In tackling the housing crisis, cities are stronger togetherThe Bay Area's housing crisis is a regional problem. Cities can't solve it alone, and now they don't have to. We have the...
Original post made on Mar. 8, 2019Last comment by An Interested Observer , on Mar 11, 2019 at 4:25 pm | 11 comments | 1269 Views
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Law and orderI am proud to call Mountain View home and honored to have served both as a mayor and council member to a community I care...
Original post made on Mar. 1, 2019Last comment by Fewer in opposition that it seems, on Mar 6, 2019 at 2:23 pm | 53 comments | 4048 Views
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MV City Council Poised to Set Bad Precedent and Ignore Our VoteWe are Mountain View residents, businesses and neighbors who have voted overwhelmingly THREE times (1996, 2016 and 2018)...
Original post made by Sam Parker on Feb. 28, 2019Last comment by The Business Man, on Mar 2, 2019 at 3:44 pm | 3 comments | 618 Views
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Supervisor foresees a healthy 2019 for countySupervisor Joe Simitian vowed during his State of the County address Tuesday that health care will be a top priority in 2019,...
Original post made on Feb. 28, 2019Last comment by Powerless, on Feb 28, 2019 at 3:28 am | 1 comment | 1892 Views
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Sutter, Palo Alto Medical Foundation accused of false Medicare claimsThe U.S. Attorney's Office has joined a lawsuit alleging a violation of the federal False Claims Act by Sutter Health and...
Original post made on Dec. 12, 2018Last comment by William Berg, on Feb 8, 2019 at 6:03 am | 12 comments | 3681 Views
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Stanford researchers say users who drop Facebook less polarized, less informedResearchers at Stanford University last week announced the findings from a study of nearly 3,000 Facebook users showing those...
Original post made on Feb. 5, 2019Last comment by Liberalguns, on Feb 6, 2019 at 1:14 pm | 10 comments | 2315 Views
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