During a special Monday evening closed session, the Menlo Park City Council decided to continue the lawsuit it has filed with Atherton and Palo Alto against the California High Speed Rail Authority, despite the HSRA ruling last November. According to ... »
Plans for a revamped Stanford Shopping Center are slated to go before the Palo Alto Architectural Review Board later this year. »
A ground breaking ceremony on Thursday, March 1, to rebuild the Menlo Park Fire Protection District‘s Fire Station 2 in East Palo Alto surfaced some of MPFPD’s historical roots. The Fire District first began operations in East Palo Alto in 1922 and sup... »
The unfortunate reality of Bay Area transit politics is that twenty-eight agencies compete for funding and ridership with very limited coordination. At the top of this pile is BART, the biggest of them all. Not so much BART the transit operator, but... »
After a career in financial services, Menlo Park resident Lisa Hendrickson decided to become a stay-at-home Mom while her two sons were in middle school. Then, one night when they were in high school, they announced over dinner: “Mom, can you go back t... »
The U.S. Census Bureau provides an astonishing array of fine-grained statistics on population and jobs along the peninsula rail corridor. When thinking about the future of peninsula rail service, and especially in deciding quantitatively how good a pr... »
A judge has ordered California to scrap plans to run bullet trains from the Central Valley and up the San Francisco Peninsula in the latest bump for a $99 billion project. »
In the midst of America's technology hub, Silicon Valley's real estate market is experiencing competitive activity. With low inventory and high demand, some homebuyers and sellers are opting for off-market sales. »
