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Crown at 547 Emerson Street follows the city’s rules. “Maybe I’ve had a snack there,” he Palo Alto City Council wants more For bars, the city currently requires a ban existed. “We have to try to bal- said. types of businesses — such as bars, cat Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims cafes, medical spas and larger gyms — businesses selling alcohol to have at ance having evening vitality, including least half of their revenue come from for younger people, without having it said Bar Underdog at 299 California to have an easier path to opening. be an over-the-top scene in our down- Ave. also looks like a bar with snacks. The city is working to relax its per- food sales. But members of the Retail Com- town,” Councilman Pat Burt said at the “I don’t want it to go away, because mitting rules in an attempt to fill vacanI hear good things about it,” she said. cies around downtown and California mittee said they’d be open to allowing Retail Committee meeting yesterday. Burt questioned how The Rose & pure bars and were surprised that such Avenue. [See BARS, page 30]
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AFTERMATH — These photos were included in court documents to demonstrate the damage done by Stanford protesters.
Defense attorneys claimed yesterday that the Stanford protesters who broke into the president’s office on June 5, 2024 did not intend for the demonstration to be violent, and questioned the reliability of a protester helping the prosecution. Yesterday Avi Singh, an attorney for German Gonzalez, cross-examined witness John Richardson, 21, of Menlo Park, about his correspondence with the five Stanford students on trial – Gonzalez, Maya Burke, Taylor McCann, Hunter Taylor-Black and Amy Zhai – prior to the June 5 [See PROTESTER, page 8]
Lobbyists and lawmakers mingle with a lobbyist for AT&T and hurrying him to the bar for a drink. The lobbyist Assemblywoman Tina McKin- had been chit-chatting with a CalMatters reporter. But when McKinnor arnor stood at the free tequila bar. The Inglewood Democrat had asked rived to give him a hug and whispered for three glasses of Patrón El Alto, “the in his ear, the chit-chatting stopped pinnacle of luxury” priced at roughly altogether. The lobbyist and the law$150 a bottle. She kept one glass, leav- maker know each other well: For two years, McKinnor was the author of an ing the other two for her staffers. Her aides had been rubbing elbows AT&T-sponsored bill to phase out most
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