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Mayor hosts 'Day in the Park' June 3
Paloaltoonline.com
May 19by Palo Alto Weekly staffBring on the bocce. That's what Palo Alto Mayor Yiaway Yeh is hoping residents throughout Palo Alto will say on Sunday, June 3, when he hosts the second installment of his "YMCA Mayor's Challenge." »
HP may cut up to 35,000 jobs, reports say
Paloaltoonline.com
May 18by Eric Van SusterenPalo Alto tech giant Hewlett-Packard Company may lay off as many as 35,000 workers – nearly 10 percent of its 350,000-person workforce, according to recent reports. »
Classmates stunned by loss of vivacious Paly graduate
Paloaltoonline.com
May 18by Chris KenrickHundreds gathered Saturday to remember the life of Emily Benatar, a creative and accomplished 2011 Palo Alto High School graduate who died May 9 in St. Louis, where she had been a first-year student at Washington University. »
Jerry Hill Gets Big Labor Endorsement
Palo Alto Patch
Apr 27Assemblymember Jerry Hill has earned the endorsement of the California Labor Federation, his campaign announced Friday. The state Labor Federation held a pre-primary convention on April 11 in Los Angeles, and Hill won the most votes from delegates, acc... »
Cheryl Burke Dance Mountain View Presents a 'Spring Fever Showcase'
Menlo Park Patch Announcements
Apr 27The Cheryl Burke Dance Studio in Mountain View will hold an all-day ballroom dance showcase featuring a wide assortment of student and professional talent from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 28, at 1400 North Shoreline Blvd. # A-1. General specta... »
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What Are Bad "Democrats?" ALEC Has A List... A Membership List
Down With Tyranny!
Apr 22ALEC Democrat, state Sen. Ophelia Ford, Harold's crooked auntYesterday we focused in on one especially "bad Democrat," corrupt Blue Dog Tim Holden. His old pal Jack Abramoff, who paid him bribes to vote for his corporate clients' agendas, in defining b... »
Picasso Ensemble holds benefit concert for Nicaraguan library on April 26
Inmenlo
Apr 22A benefit concert by Picasso Ensemble will take place on Thursday, April 26 at 7:oo pm at Bethany Lutheran Church, Menlo Park. The event is an opportunity to enjoy a chamber music concert while supporting the children’s library in Nicaragua founded 12 ... »
Lytton Green 4-20 shindig
Plastic Alto
Apr 21Earthwise Productions my day job predates “Plastic Alto” the blog by about 17 years and is a spinoff of Bay Area Action which produced a large Earth Day event in 1993, I worked on. In 1997 for Earth Day I … Continue reading → »
Yeh for Microsoft Store Opening
Plastic Alto
Apr 19I'm not on a drug. But I got all goose-bumpy at the grand opening at Stanford Shopping a Simon Property merely to be within 48 hours and one thousand yards of Adam Levine and his band, who I estimated will rake in about three hundred thousand dollars f... »
Menlo Park council unanimously approves deal for Facebook expansion
Oakland Tribune Headlines
Apr 18In almost anti-climactic fashion, the Menlo Park City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved a deal that allows Facebook to eventually bring in thousands of additional employees to its new campus in exchange for pumping millions of dollars into ... »