One of Palo Alto’s largest and most ambitious housing projects, a 368-apartment complex proposed for the former site of The Fish Market on El Camino Real, has received the green light from the city.

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Joan Baez was part of a huge crowd of 'No Kings' protesters in Palo Alto on Saturday afternoon.
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Wrote a story about chance encounters that changed lives.
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Looks like someone hacked traffic light buttons in Palo Alto in Redwood City so that when you press them you hear Zuckerberg and Musk saying wild things.

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Palo Alto is preparing to lead the charge in support of a new legislative effort to limit builder’s remedy applications, which allow housing developers to bypass zoning regulations in cities without compliant housing plans.

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Palo Alto officials hope to turn the strip of San Antonio Road east of Alma Street into a walkable, bike-friendly residential neighborhood, featuring 2,000 new dwellings.

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Inequality in Silicon Valley continues to get worse, with nine households at the top now controlling more wealth than the bottom 50% of the region's population. An extremely sobering report from Joint Venture Silicon Valley.

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After four years of debate about car-free streets, Palo Alto committed on Monday to keeping Cal Ave. and Ramona Street pedestrian-centric forever. www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2025/03...

More than 400 people, including activists, politicians, neighborhood residents and folk icon Joan Baez, attended the Feb. 16 protest at the Tesla dealership in #PaloAlto.
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Three workers who were tasked with cleaning downtown Palo Alto restaurants were arrested after burglarizing three of those restaurants, in each case making off with a safe filled with cash, police said.

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Wow. Andrea Long Chu deserves to win five Grammys and perform in the Superbowl for this.
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A few years ago, any proposal to build housing on downtown Palo Alto parking lots would have been a nonstarter. Last night, the City Council backed a plan to do just with one request to its chosen developer: make it bigger.

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It's a sad day in Palo Alto as Perry, the beloved miniature donkey who famously served as a model for Donkey in Shrek, has died.

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Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but seems like NBA folks have already planted a flag here while the NFL crowd is slowly trickling in and the Premier League crew is totally absent. Something I hope will change in 2025.

UnitedHealth is among the health insurance giants that are facing lawsuits over their use of AI to deny claims and prior authorization requests. A new California law will prohibit that practice and require than claim denials involve actual physicians.

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Civil libertarians have some concerns but Palo Alto is all in on license plate readers. Since installing the first 20 last year, the city had signed information-sharing agreements with about 60 law enforcement agencies. And it plans to add 10 cameras soon.
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The most jarring difference between the old place and this one - aside from the politics - is the collective attitude toward books, indie bookstores and libraries. Farewell toxic soup, hello cozy nook. Hope it stays this way.