Menlo Park Politics News

Menlo Park waded into the land-use debate this week when the city council agreed to vote soon on a draft resolution opposing Cargill and DMB Associates' plans to build as many as 12,000 homes on a 1,436-acre Baylands site that...

PDT Updated: 10/09/2009 06:22:14 PM PDT The alarming numbers had been rippling across the Pacific to the Menlo Park offices of the U.S. Geological Survey all week, each one sending a kind of electric jolt through seismologist David Oppenheimer as his...

San Mateo-based Sand Hill Property Company proposed a 51,000 square-foot retail space and almost 59,000 square feet of non-medical office space. However, the company's development partner, Jeffrey Warmoth, told the council he would be willing to consider adding housing if...

Yet, at a time when new ideas are the only hope for our economic salvation, the real "energy" crisis is to be found in the inability of tired, old institutions producing the innovation and creativity that we are so desperately...

Tracie VanHook, a 44-year-old single mother to two teenage boys, clearly appreciated their efforts as she tearfully accepted the keys to her new house on Market Place at a dedication ceremony Monday morning. VanHook and her sons, 17-year-old Titus and...