East Palo Alto residents insist crime reputation is outmoded.(Originated...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 1, 1996 ;   Tran, Tini;   787 words ...EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. _ When you live on the other side of the Bayshore Freeway in East Palo Alto, it's a fact of life that you've entered...as expensive. Businesses that avoid East Palo Alto while serving its more affluent neighbors...

East Palo Alto cuts crime _ with help from its neighbors. (Originated from...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 3, 1994 ;   Chen, David W.;   787 words ...EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. _ In a year marked by the seemingly...should not come as any surprise that East Palo Alto _ 1992's murder capital of the United...news again. What's startling is why: East Palo Alto is bucking the trend in what law enforcement...

East Palo Alto, Calif., Seeks Supermarket.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  January 28, 2002 ;     787 words ......The Safeway grocery store left East Palo Alto in the 1970s, when Kyle Spencer...Spencer and others living in East Palo Alto have had to do without one of...take for granted. But now, in East Palo Alto, the call for a supermarket is...

East Palo Alto Kids Get Chance to Join Computer Revolution

Sun Reporter, The;  December 28, 1995 ;   Belinda Taylor;   500 words ......Taylor Sun Reporter, The 12-28-1995 East Palo Alto Kids Get Chance to Join Computer...throw from the mean streets of East Palo Alto, yet seemingly worlds away. These...the old Whiskey Gulch section of East Palo Alto, an innovative program is bridging...

New Ikea Store to Furnish Big Change for East Palo Alto, Calif., Area.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  August 24, 2003 ;     787 words ......When the new Ikea store opens in East Palo Alto on Wednesday, John Hally will...Jose and Fremont, transforming East Palo Alto into a destination. But beyond...arrival signals change not only for East Palo Alto, but also for many others who...

Digital Divide in East Palo Alto

AP Online;  April 16, 2000 ;   SCOTT ANDREWS, Associated Press Writer;   593 words ......Press Writer AP Online 04-16-2000 Digital Divide in East Palo Alto EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- Mike Baker steps around mud puddles...Co. Between Palo Alto and its poorer stepsister, East Palo Alto, lies the original chasm of the digital divide...

Nonprofit celebrates two months of peace: East Palo Alto group organized...

Palo Alto Daily News (Palo Alto, CA);  March 28, 2007 ;     411 words ...Byline: Banks Albach Mar. 28--One East Palo Alto, a nonprofit that works with city...peace. It's a relative peace. East Palo Alto still has robberies, drug deals...straying from drugs and alcohol. One East Palo Alto played a major role in funding...

Cooperation Helps Reduce Crime In East Palo Alto

Oakland Post;  January 5, 1994 ;   Bill Hughes;   472 words ......Cooperation Helps Reduce Crime In East Palo Alto. A beefed up law enforcement program in East Palo Alto is credited with an outstanding...released December 31. Residents of East Palo Alto, a predominantly minority city...

New East Palo Alto Newspaper

Oakland Post;  February 21, 2006 ;   Mayfield, Sandra Hooper;   380 words ......her own community newspaper in East Palo Alto. It has been a two-year struggle...residents of the city are celebrating East Palo Alto Today. (EPA Today) The new paper...own community are celebrating. East "Palo Alto is probably one of the most civically...

Slain East Palo Alto officer remembered.

Palo Alto Daily News (Palo Alto, CA);  January 7, 2007 ;     552 words ......of optimism filled a church in East Palo Alto Saturday afternoon as family members...Street Gang. He was on parole in East Palo Alto at the time. May was responding...down by 60 percent last year in East Palo Alto, police Chief Ron Davis told the...

Journalist reaches out to East Palo Alto community

Oakland Tribune;  February 27, 2006 ;   Christine Morente, STAFF WRITER;   583 words ...EAST PALO ALTO -- Henrietta J. Burroughs is the editor and founder of East Palo Alto Today, a bi-weekly, community newspaper...The free newspaper -- published by the East Palo Alto Center for Community Media -- is circulated...

Pushing peace, marchers take to East Palo Alto streets: MULTIETHNIC...

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA);  February 4, 2007 ;     730 words ......1,200 marchers paraded through East Palo Alto to rally in a park Saturday, in...be no more homicides in 2007 in East Palo Alto. In six weeks through Jan. 22...said, when 42 homicides earned East Palo Alto infamy as having the highest per-capi...

Other Cities Want Ikea if East Palo Alto, Calif., Plan Fails.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  November 15, 2001 ;     787 words ......Tribune Business News Nov. 15--If East Palo Alto isn't hip to Ikea, cities from...other cities in recent weeks as East Palo Alto's commitment to let Ikea build...their city. But on Tuesday, the East Palo Alto City Council failed to change...

Residents and youth leaders push for sidewalks in East Palo Alto

Oakland Tribune;  July 10, 2008 ;   Banks Albach;   400 words ...EAST PALO ALTO -- About two weeks ago, Norm Picker...one objective: building sidewalks in East Palo Alto. According to a study that the two groups conducted in conjunction with the East Palo Alto Public Works Department, 25 percent...

East Palo Alto coalition seeks tax to fight youth crime

Oakland Tribune;  June 30, 2006 ;   Neil Gonzales, STAFF WRITER;   470 words ...EAST PALO ALTO -- Isela Ramos believes her cousin would still be alive today if East Palo Alto had enough programs to combat violence...and killed one night last August in East Palo Alto. "It's hard to have him one day and...