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Rent control initiative qualifies for fall ballotThe Mountain View Tenants Coalition announced Thursday evening that its rent control initiative has qualified to appear on...
Original post made on Jul. 15, 2016Last comment by Resident, on Jul 18, 2016 at 9:14 pm | 13 comments | 7266 Views
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Letters to the editor<B>Sounding the call for more candidates Read the full story here http://www.mv-voice.com/print/story/2016/07/15/letters-to-the-editor...
Original post made on Jul. 15, 2016Last comment by Steven Nelson, on Jul 18, 2016 at 5:15 pm | 5 comments | 3775 Views
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Council backs competing rent-control measureA thin majority of the Mountain View City Council on Thursday night backed plans for an alternate rent-control ordinance...
Original post made on Jul. 15, 2016Last comment by Alan L., on Jul 17, 2016 at 10:23 pm | 29 comments | 8281 Views
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Editorial: Don't muddy the waters on November ballotThe Mountain View City Council made serious mistakes, in our view, when it approved an anemic set of rules that the majority...
Original post made on Jul. 15, 2016Last comment by @So what happened?, on Jul 16, 2016 at 8:36 pm | 7 comments | 3479 Views
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New startup could help teachers buy Bay Area homesSchool districts in Mountain View have acknowledged that the high cost of living is putting the squeeze on teachers, making...
Original post made on Jul. 14, 2016Last comment by @Cuernavaca , on Jul 14, 2016 at 1:48 pm | 2 comments | 10167 Views
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Council to discuss alternatives for rent-control measureIn a special meeting on Thursday, Mountain View elected leaders will make a last-ditch effort to consider some kind of alternative...
Original post made on Jul. 12, 2016Last comment by Jim Neal, on Jul 13, 2016 at 11:02 am | 5 comments | 5837 Views
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VTA scales back toll lane plansA controversial plan to construct toll lanes in the Highway 85 median could be abandoned, after city leaders made clear that...
Original post made on Jun. 29, 2016Last comment by Darin, on Jul 7, 2016 at 3:47 pm | 28 comments | 8163 Views
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Mayor pitches plan for alternate rent control measureIn a challenge to Mountain View's citizen-backed initiative to curb rising rents, city officials could draft a second ballot...
Original post made on Jul. 6, 2016Last comment by Thomas Jefferson, on Jul 7, 2016 at 3:22 pm | 18 comments | 9375 Views
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Tuesday: Council to discuss renter mediation programAfter more than six months of preparation, the Mountain View City Council on Tuesday could take action on skyrocketing rents....
Original post made on Mar. 14, 2016Last comment by @John, on Jul 7, 2016 at 1:29 am | 25 comments | 6339 Views
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Planning Commissioner Matichak joins council raceMountain's View November City Council election just got more competitive: this week Planning Commissioner Lisa Matichak filed...
Original post made on Jun. 29, 2016Last comment by Max Hauser, on Jul 5, 2016 at 6:02 pm | 34 comments | 7264 Views
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Hospital budgets for big expansion plansEl Camino Hospital staff are budgeting for a lucrative year next fiscal year, calling for cost-cutting measures and another...
Original post made on Jun. 19, 2016Last comment by San Jose, on Jul 3, 2016 at 9:31 am | 6 comments | 6426 Views
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City Council approves El Camino's expansion plansDespite worries that traffic along Grant Road will go from bad to worse in the coming years, Mountain View City Council members...
Original post made on Jun. 26, 2016Last comment by One who cares, on Jul 1, 2016 at 12:04 pm | 14 comments | 11622 Views
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Former Stanford anesthesia tech gets year in jail for molesting patientsA former anesthesia technician at Stanford Hospital was sentenced to a year in jail Wednesday after pleading no contest to...
Original post made on Jun. 30, 2016Last comment by DA Lembert?, on Jun 30, 2016 at 11:16 am | 1 comment | 5380 Views
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VTA board OKs new sales tax measureA long-planned sales tax measure is set to go on the November ballot now that the Valley Transportation Authority board of...
Original post made on Jun. 12, 2016Last comment by DC, on Jun 25, 2016 at 8:49 pm | 39 comments | 6627 Views
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County OKs $950 million housing bond for ballotIn what is being hailed as a chance to end regional homelessness, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday...
Original post made on Jun. 23, 2016Last comment by Too many measures to pass, on Jun 23, 2016 at 11:36 am | 1 comment | 4086 Views
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Rent-control measure expected to go to voters in NovemberA signature-gathering effort to place a measure on the November ballot that would restrict increases in Mountain View's apartment...
Original post made on Jun. 15, 2016Last comment by The voters will decide, on Jun 21, 2016 at 2:08 pm | 47 comments | 10969 Views
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City sinks paid-parking due to dismal numbersThe city is pulling the plug on a paid-parking program meant to help control the downtown lots during 49ers football games...
Original post made on Jun. 21, 2016There are no comments yet. 2807 Views
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Tentative agreement reached on teacher salariesThe Mountain View Whisman School District has announced that it has reached a tentative agreement with its teachers' union,...
Original post made on Jun. 16, 2016Last comment by Steven Nelson, on Jun 20, 2016 at 5:08 pm | 5 comments | 5904 Views
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Tenants' group to submit signatures for rent-cap measureMembers of the Mountain View Tenants Coalition are reporting this week they have collected more than 7,100 signatures, far...
Original post made on Jun. 13, 2016Last comment by Joe, on Jun 16, 2016 at 8:40 pm | 28 comments | 6310 Views
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Early results: Berman leads the field in Assembly racePalo Alto Councilman Marc Berman is leading the pack in the race to succeed Rich Gordon in the 24th Assembly District, while...
Original post made on Jun. 7, 2016Last comment by George Washington, on Jun 15, 2016 at 11:42 pm | 5 comments | 7703 Views
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