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A place to (soon) call home: Demolition work begins on housing project targeted for people with disabilitiesOn Wednesday, community members came together to mark the start of demolition work at 525 E. Charleston Road in Palo Alto...
Original post made on Feb. 18, 2023Last comment by Steven Goldstein, on Feb 18, 2023 at 12:45 pm | 1 comment | 2042 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Unfit to teach? Palo Alto teacher accused of rape had a checkered history in local schoolsPalo Alto Unified administrators knew of physical education teacher Peter Colombo's criminal history more than a decade ago...
Original post made on Feb. 17, 2023Last comment by Another MV Resident, on Feb 18, 2023 at 9:40 am | 2 comments | 4985 Views
AROUND TOWN
Mountain View City Council approves $18 million in funds for two affordable housing projectsThe Mountain View City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to allocate more than $18 million to two fully affordable housing...
Original post made on Feb. 16, 2023Last comment by Leslie Bain, on Feb 16, 2023 at 11:40 pm | 2 comments | 3272 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Worried about Castro Street vacancies and eyesores, Mountain View council OKs Phase 1 of updated downtown planMountain View City Council took a big step toward updating the city’s Downtown Precise Plan at its Dec. 6 meeting, approving...
Original post made on Dec. 8, 2022Last comment by Bob, on Feb 16, 2023 at 8:14 pm | 62 comments | 10925 Views
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Retail theft ring smashed after statewide attacks on Apple storesA criminal complaint indicates that more than $950 in Apple merchandise was stolen last summer from a Palo Alto Apple store...
Original post made on Feb. 16, 2023Last comment by Alexander, on Feb 16, 2023 at 1:37 pm | 1 comment | 2695 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Mountain View City Council to consider adding 24-hour 'no return' rule to three-day street parking limitThe Mountain View City Council is considering some tweaks to its 72-hour parking rule, which prohibits parking in the same...
Original post made on Feb. 14, 2023Last comment by Steven Goldstein, on Feb 16, 2023 at 1:37 pm | 11 comments | 5349 Views
AROUND TOWN
Redevelopment plan raises hopes, anxieties at Buena Vista Mobile Home ParkResidents of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park know what it feels like to have their lives upended by events beyond their control....
Original post made on Feb. 16, 2023Last comment by Steven Goldstein, on Feb 16, 2023 at 1:33 pm | 1 comment | 1732 Views
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Emily Ann Ramos is used to being behind the scenes of winning political campaigns. She's ready to be in the spotlightWhen newly appointed Mountain View City Council member Emily Ann Ramos wandered into her local Barack Obama campaign office...
Original post made on Feb. 15, 2023Last comment by Community Minded, on Feb 15, 2023 at 4:28 pm | 1 comment | 2566 Views
ELECTIONS
Dianne Feinstein, California's first woman elected to U.S. Senate, says this term will be her lastU.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, announced Tuesday that she will not run for reelection next year. Read the full...
Original post made on Feb. 14, 2023Last comment by Dan Waylonis, on Feb 14, 2023 at 2:57 pm | 1 comment | 1565 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Plans underway to redevelop Buena Vista Mobile Home ParkSix years after it took ownership of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, the Santa Clara County Housing Authority is moving ahead...
Original post made on Feb. 9, 2023Last comment by Steven Goldstein, on Feb 14, 2023 at 12:05 pm | 11 comments | 3402 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Guest opinion: Building affordable housing requires partnershipsIn a guest opinion, county supervisor Joe Simitian and Mountain View City Council member Lucas Ramirez point to a track record...
Original post made on Feb. 4, 2023Last comment by Steven Goldstein, on Feb 13, 2023 at 10:43 pm | 25 comments | 4424 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Why California still doesn't mandate dyslexia screeningExperts agree early diagnosis is key to helping dyslexic students learn to read, yet the statewide teachers union and others...
Original post made on Feb. 13, 2023Last comment by Kathy Thibodeaux, on Feb 13, 2023 at 5:11 pm | 1 comment | 1980 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Here's what you need to know about the new teacher-housing project in Palo AltoPlans are underway to break ground in the next several months on an educator-housing project in Palo Alto that was proposed...
Original post made on Feb. 3, 2023Last comment by Steven Goldstein, on Feb 12, 2023 at 1:16 am | 10 comments | 3270 Views
AROUND TOWN
A Silicon Valley-based nonprofit is raising funds to protect a forest in Colombia forever. Here's how they're doing itSilicon Valley-based nonprofit ReWorld is on a mission to create the world’s first community-funded tropical forest, a...
Original post made on Feb. 10, 2023Last comment by ivg, on Feb 10, 2023 at 2:35 pm | 1 comment | 2898 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Study: Promising drug could cut COVID hospitalizations in halfA new drug requiring only a single injection could be a game changer in keeping people with COVID-19 infections out of the...
Original post made on Feb. 9, 2023Last comment by Neighbor, on Feb 9, 2023 at 8:38 pm | 2 comments | 1883 Views
OTHER ISSUES
Santa Clara County supervisors approve nearly $1M to expand gun violence response teamThe Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved nearly $1 million Tuesday to expand the county's task force...
Original post made on Feb. 9, 2023Last comment by roaksinri, on Feb 9, 2023 at 3:30 pm | 1 comment | 1340 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Years in the making, teacher and school staff housing project is under constructionAfter years of planning, negotiation and preparation, construction is underway in Mountain View to build subsidized housing...
Original post made on Feb. 9, 2023There are no comments yet. 3215 Views
AROUND TOWN
Palo Alto sued over delay in adopting its housing planTwo pro-housing groups are asking the court to limit Palo Alto’s control over approving development applications because...
Original post made on Feb. 8, 2023Last comment by Steven Goldstein, on Feb 8, 2023 at 9:49 pm | 1 comment | 1973 Views
AROUND TOWN
New showroom and concept store shows robots in action in downtown Mountain ViewDowntown Mountain View just got a whole lot more high tech with the latest addition to Castro Street. InOrbit Inc., a software...
Original post made on Feb. 6, 2023Last comment by Mark, on Feb 8, 2023 at 9:18 am | 3 comments | 4626 Views
AROUND TOWN
Mountain View teen develops an app to encourage farmers market-goers to ditch the disposable plasticLast summer, Mountain View teen Akshat Mehrotra started spending his weekends campaigning outside local farmers markets to...
Original post made on Feb. 6, 2023Last comment by Local, on Feb 6, 2023 at 2:58 pm | 2 comments | 3624 Views
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