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After 98 years in Menlo Park, Cook’s Seafood abruptly shutters both locations
Employees were notified via text message around 3 a.m., according to employees.
As election nears, Menlo Park Measure P campaigns spend big
Menlo Park City Council candidates’ spending is being dwarfed by proponents and opponents of Measure P, which reported spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in the final stretch of the campaign.
Local billionaires shell out to defeat Prop 40
Californians are already voting on whether to implement a one-time 5% tax on billionaires that could generate as much as $100 billion toward healthcare and other social services over the next five years. And local billionaires are weighing in — with their wallets.
Menlo Park City Council candidate creates interactive map of housing developments
Amid robust discourse in Menlo Park around proposed housing plans, mega-towers and downtown parking lots, Wonman Lee, a candidate for Menlo Park City Council, built a mapping tool that allows community members to visualize Menlo Park’s housing developments for themselves.
What’s up this week: ‘The Addams Family,’ Dracula told through dance, The Psychedelic Furs, a virtual film festival and more
This week, a grownup Wednesday Addams brings home a “normal” boyfriend at Palo Alto Players and The Psychedelic Furs hit the heartbreak beat at The Guild. Plus an iconic vampire’s tale told through dance; a New York State of Jazz and more.
Author and doctor Abraham Verghese discusses his works at Kepler’s
The bestselling writer and Stanford physician will appear in a Nov. 16 event at the Menlo Park bookstore.
Google and Meta spent big this election cycle. Is Big Tech trying to ‘buy the legislature’?
Big Tech has proven a big spender in this year’s election cycle. Google, Meta, and other tech interests account for at least 20% of all the contributions made to outside groups spending on legislative races, according to a CalMatters analysis of campaign finance disclosures.
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Menlo Park candidate pitches alternate housing plan, but the devil’s in the detailsOctober 29, 2026 10:42 am
