Trees of gratitude in Palo Alto decked out for nation s 245th birthday
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A group of high school students in Palo Alto have taken responsibility for decorating two street trees seasonally, a neighborhood project that started in 2012. Courtesy Jessica Yang.
Festooned in flapping patriotic pennants and flags and pompoms in red, white and blue that dangle from their branches, two well-known bike-median street trees at the intersection of Lowell Avenue and Bryant Street in Palo Alto are decked out to celebrate the Fourth of July.
The monthlong decorations gracing the so-called Trees of Gratitude are the latest iteration of community spirit and joy in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood. The tree-decorating project, which started in 2012 and was handed down from resident Catherine Debs, has been adopted by a group of Palo Alto and Gunn High School students who see the tree displays as a public service project.
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The survey also indicated that most residents aren t particularly optimistic about the overall direction Palo Alto is taking, with only 4% giving the city excellent marks and 30% rating it as good, while 34% said fair and 17% marked poor. On this question, Palo Alto s ranked 293rd out of the 332 jurisdictions that were surveyed across the nation.
The percentage of people who raved about the quality of services that the city provides has also dipped, with 73% giving Palo Alto high marks, down from 86% in 2017 and 82% in 2018. At the same time, residents gave the city a higher grade than in past years when asked about traffic enforcement, street repair and street cleaning. And when asked about traffic signal timing, the percentage of residents who gave Palo Alto a high ranking jumped from 45% in 2018 to 59% in 2021.
The survey also indicated that most residents aren t particularly optimistic about the overall direction Palo Alto is taking, with only 4% giving the city excellent marks and 30% rating it as good, while 34% said fair and 17% marked poor. On this question, Palo Alto s ranked 293rd out of the 332 jurisdictions that were surveyed across the nation.
The percentage of people who raved about the quality of services that the city provides has also dipped, with 73% giving Palo Alto high marks, down from 86% in 2017 and 82% in 2018. At the same time, residents gave the city a higher grade than in past years when asked about traffic enforcement, street repair and street cleaning. And when asked about traffic signal timing, the percentage of residents who gave Palo Alto a high ranking jumped from 45% in 2018 to 59% in 2021.
John C. Martin, 69, Dies; Led Drugmaker in Breakthroughs
A chemist by training, he turned Gilead Sciences into a leading, and lucrative, innovator with single-pill treatments for H.I.V. and hepatitis C.
John C. Martin in 2006 with a bottle of Truvada, a groundbreaking treatment for H.I.V. made by his company, Gilead Sciences, in the Bay Area. Credit.Paul Sakuma/Associated Press
April 27, 2021, 6:43 p.m. ET
John C. Martin, who became a billionaire by developing and marketing a daily single-dose pill that transformed H.I.V. into a manageable disease and who popularized another drug that cures hepatitis C, died on March 30 in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 69.