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Local Dine: What Deal Can You Offer Me Tonight?
A new deal app for Los Altos and Mountain View restaurants relies on proximity and focuses on party size for deals that businesses can easily control.
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I've been in journalism since 1980, when I participated in the Maynard Institute's Summer Program for Minority Journalists.
I've been a reporter for the Hartford Courant in Connecticut and the San Francisco Chronicle.
During a 12-year career at the San Jose Mercury News, I was an editor supervising reporters in community news, weekend breaking news and business. I had a column through which I wrote about local events, the travails of ordinary people fighting City Hall, and the intersection of race, culture and public policy.
Since leaving the Mercury News, I've worked on the Chauncey Bailey Project, the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism and done research Hewlett Foundation projects.
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A new deal app for Los Altos and Mountain View restaurants relies on proximity and focuses on party size for deals that businesses can easily control.
Cupertino's neighborhoods are safer when neighbors look out for neighbors, that's the simple idea behind NNO.
Why fool around? Patch cuts to the chase and asks customers what's the best thing to order in Los Altos businesses.
Like your county branch library? Be prepared to vote via a mail ballot for a parcel tax in July and August.
Like your county branch library? Be prepared to vote via a mail ballot for a parcel tax in July or August to replace a tax expiring next year.
July 15 is my last day as editor, but please, keep reading and contributing your knowledge about events in our communities.
Cupertino's doings and deadlines you need to know for the week of July 15 to 21.
It's been an honor to be Cupertino Patch's editor and such a pleasure to work with the residents of Cupertino to contribute to our news and community site. Keep it going!
Carpenter, in her second term on the Los Altos City Council, will be vice president of marketing for the company that is a cloud-based platform for open data initiatives.
In an era with so many distractions, Sea Scouts constantly recruit—and a gorgeous Saturday morning on the bay was not a bad way to introduce the young boys to the nautical life.
Steve Wozniak designed and built the first consumer personal computers in the garage of Steve Jobs' parents in Los Altos.
In an era with so many distractions, Sea Scouts constantly recruit—and a gorgeous Saturday morning on the bay was not a bad way to introduce the young scouts to the nautical life.
A free registration link is included in this article about the event, modeled on last year's Mayor's Small Business Workshop.
Local students graduated from Colby College, Emory University, M.I.T., Miami University and S.M.U.
A group of 31 students and teachers departed on an Air China flight home.
Parking at Main and First streets will be closed and the city recommends using the parking plazas.
She allegedly bilked about $500 million from investors who thought she had a medical building project in Modesto—but it never existed.
The TV news channel did not detect the names were made up parodies of Chinese names.
Toyokawa and Cupertino have exchanged visitors every five years in the past 35 years of its sister city relationship.
The appointment of Sang Yoo and Jennifer Carolan was made to complement the growth of the school to 600 students.