Palo Alto plans to improve bike routes
Palo Alto kicked off its Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan, hoping to increase bike ridership and improve routes to qualify for the League of American Bicyclists’ platinum-level community status.
Culture & Features
Know the People and Places That Make The Peninsula Great
Iraqi foreign nationals search for a place to call home
Iraqi translators in the war earned special immigrant status to resettle their families in the United States. However, for many, it has not been an easy transition.
Swimming With the Sharks: 40-year-veteran journalist left editor’s desk for grueling schedule as Sharks’ beat writer
By Kathryn Roethel David Pollak, the San Jose Mercury News’ beat reporter for the San Jose Sharks, sits alone in a hotel room in Buffalo. He’s waiting for a phone call confirming that the Sharks just traded left wing Jody Shelley to the New York Rangers. He was awake until 1 a.m. in a different
Letter lost in the mail for 17 years
MENLO PARK – Nancy Couperus realized the city was planning to close the street leading to the Sunday Farmers’ market she founded 17 years ago, and build a roofed one to compete with it, when the planning was already well underway.
Stanford Hat Trick: Students Play, Fund and Manage Club Hockey Team
The 2009-2010 Stanford University club hockey players manage, fund and schedule their own team. Practicing at midnight and playing in front of only a handful of fans, the players clearly play for the love of the game.
Matters of the Heart
For Redwood City parents coping with 5-year-old’s chronic disease, normal life is the greatest gift.