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Atherton’s Old Depot Becomes a Museum as the State Redraws the Town’s Future
On Sunday the town opened its restored train station as a museum, six years after the last trains stopped. The ceremony comes as Atherton, appointed rather than elected…
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Menlo Park’s Downtown Dilemma: Parking, Plazas and the Stakes of Measure P
A plan to build affordable homes on city parking lots faces multimillion-dollar gaps and a ballot measure that would put the lots under voters' control. Meanwhile, a beloved…
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Palo Alto Weighs a Cubberley Tax, a Billion-Dollar Rail Plan and the Price of Its Ambitions
Measure J asks voters to fund the purchase and renewal of Cubberley. The rail crossings could cost more than $1 billion. Together they pose an old Palo Alto…
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Five Towns, One University: The Civic Ecosystem Around the Farm
Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Mountain View and Woodside govern themselves separately. On housing, transit and the November ballot, they are increasingly living one shared story, and Stanford…
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Fifty Years of Champions, and a Map That No Longer Makes Sense
Stanford arrives at its third ACC season with the longest title streak in college sports, a football team relearning how to win, and an old question made urgent…
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Tavita Pritchard’s First Autumn, and the Patience a Rebuild Requires
Seven games into his tenure, Stanford's new head coach has a 3-4 record, a breakout running back and a schedule that will test whether the Cardinal can finish…
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Two Programs, One Pavilion, and a Winter of Proving
The men must replace a scoring star now in the NBA. The women, with no seniors and a demanding schedule, are chasing their first NCAA Tournament as an…
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The Streak at Fifty: How Stanford’s Olympic Sports Became the Standard
A men's gymnastics title in April extended Stanford's run of NCAA championships to half a century. Behind it lies a model of breadth that the new economics of…
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The Other Varsity: Club Teams, Intramural Leagues and the Price of Playing for Love
Roughly fifty club teams and more than twenty intramural leagues give Stanford students a place to compete for the love of it. A change in how clubs are…
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Paying the Players: What Revenue Sharing and the ACC Bargain Mean for Stanford
In the first year of direct payments to college athletes, schools distributed $1.8 billion. Stanford, carrying a reduced conference share and 36 varsity teams, is betting on philanthropy…