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Critics Besiege High-Speed Rail Authority Page 3 Palo 6°Ê888]Ê ÕLiÀÊ{äÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊN 50¢ Alto Critics besiege High-Speed Rail Authority Page 3 www.PaloAltoOnline.com Federal funding to Silicon Valley is threatened page 28 1ST PLACE GENERAL EXCELLENCE Spectrum 12 Eating Out 22 ShopTalk 23 Movies 25 Puzzles 55 California Newspaper Publishers Association NArts Early 20th-century writer rediscovered Page 16 NSports Tuning up for Junior Olympics Page 32 NHome Palo Altans head for the Hills Page 37 Perinatal Obstetric Diagnostic Anesthesia Center Packard Center for Stanford Children’s Fetal Health School of Hospital Medicine TOGETHER WHAT DREW US HERE AS DOCTORS, DRAWS US BACK AS PATIENTS. Obstetricians Karen Shin and Mary Parman spend their days caring for pregnant patients and delivering babies. Now that each doctor is pregnant with her fi rst child, the choice of where to deliver is clear: right here where they deliver their patients’ babies, at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. “At Packard, every specialist you could ever need is available within minutes, around the clock. When you’ve seen how successfully the physicians, staff and nurses work, especially in unpredictable situations, you instinctively www.lpch.org want that level of care for you and your baby.” To learn more about the services we provide to expectant mothers and babies, visit lpch.org Page 2ÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ 1ST PLACE BEST LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE California Newspaper Publishers Association UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Rail Authority besieged by critical reports State legislators give agency until February to cent months as three independent re- are “unreliable for policy analysis.” title, “High-Speed Rail Authority: views found a slew of problems in the Simitian, a former Palo Alto may- It Risks Delays or an Incomplete resolve ridership, oversight issues proposed rail line, which would stretch or and Santa Clara County supervi- System Because of Inadequate from San Francisco to Los Angeles. by Gennady Sheyner sor, said the ITS study is particu- Planning, Weak Oversight, and Lax The latest of these reviews, issued larly troubling because it was issued Contract Management.” last Friday by the Institute of Trans- on the heels of other critical reports Simitian called the slate of prob- he California High-Speed Rail the Weekly this week. portation Studies (ITS) at Univer- about the rail project. Last year, the lems identified in the recent reports Authority has until February Simitian, who sits on both the Sen- sity of California, Berkeley, picked Legislative Analyst’s Office called “an unfortunate trend that needs to T to resolve a litany of recent- ate’s Budget Committee and Trans- apart the model that the rail author- the rail authority’s business plan be turned around.” ly uncovered problems with the portation Policy Committee, is one ity’s consultant used to estimate how incomplete and consideration of “This is just the latest in a series of planned rail system or risk losing of many local and state officials who many people would use the new line. funding risks inadequate. And the observations from qualified, reputable state funding for the project, state have become increasingly frustrated The ITS report concluded that these State Auditor’s report, issued in late Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, told with the voter-approved project in re- models have “large error bounds” and April, summarized its findings in its (continued on page 8) SCHOOLS Big changes afoot at Gunn, Paly Workers move dozens of portables to clear sites for major construction by Chris Kenrick eenagers heading back to school this fall will find dra- T matically altered landscapes at Gunn and Palo Alto high schools. At Gunn, the 26 portable class- rooms that comprised the “Titan Village” section of campus have been moved to the parking lot to make way for construction of a new, two-story building for the math and English departments. At Paly, the campus is abuzz with “belly dump” trailers, bulldozers, backhoes and motor graders. The Churchill Avenue field con- Kimihiro Hoshino Kimihiro taining baseball and softball dia- monds has been dug up — resem- bling a moonscape studded with mounds of dirt and gravel — and will not re-open until February. And the entire central campus Computers are part of daily life, even while enjoying family time at the Pacific Athletic Club in Redwood City, for Mandeep Dhillon, CEO of is fenced off as workers assemble Togetherville, a new social networking site for kids. With him are his children Zoraver Singh, 8, left, Nivaaz Kaur, 3, and Hazuri Kaur, 6. 16 portable classrooms in the Paly quad. for both boys, despite their pleas, Togetherville allows children to The work — funded by a $378 COMMUNITY at least until they turn 13. build a “neighborhood” of parent- million facilities bond that was ap- Like many parents, Spanner has approved friends and grown-ups proved by 77.5 percent of school dis- struggled with allowing her kids with whom to share videos, play trict voters in June 2008 — eventu- to use the Internet while guarding games and trade messages for ally will touch all 17 campuses of Parenting the against inappropriate content and free. Parents can monitor all ac- the Palo Alto Unified School Dis- safety risks. Banning them from tivities and interact with their kids trict. the Internet altogether is not an online. Children are identified by The bond program is intended Internet generation option; Blake, now 9, has had to their real names. to modernize outdated classrooms cite Web sources in schoolwork “There’s a reason 500 mil- and expand school capacity to ac- Website offers social networking for kids since the third grade. lion people use Facebook,” said commodate anticipated enrollment — with adult supervision As parents and experts come to Dhillon, Togetherville’s CEO and growth. terms with plugged-in kids, they a spirited father of three. “Let’s Now at 11,680 students, dis- by Katia Savchuk are trying to figure out how to rear give kids the Web for adults that’s trict-wide enrollment has crept up the Internet generation — and a appropriate for them and make it steadily from a low of 7,452 in 1989- tay-at-home-mom Teri Span- When she and her 12-year-old, pair of Palo Alto entrepreneurs safe.” 1990. ner was shocked to see 8-year- Evan, came across pornograph- say they can help. Many parents seem to be on The previous high point was at S old son Blake killing Ameri- ic videos while searching for a Last May, one-time consultants board. Togetherville’s 10-person the crest of the Baby Boom years can soldiers in an online World War Capella renditions of “Danny Mandeep Dhillon and Rajveer team has been working around in 1967-68, when enrollment was II game last year. A National Guard Boy,” YouTube joined the black- Tut launched Togetherville, a so- the clock to accommodate rapidly 15,575 and Palo Alto had three com- veteran herself, Spanner told him list. cial networking website designed prehensive high schools. that the website was off-limits. A Facebook profile is a no-no for children younger than 10. (continued on page 7) (continued on page 6) *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊU Page 3 Upfront QUOTE OF THE WEEK 450 CAMBRIDGE AVE, PALO ALTO, CA 94306 (650) 326-8210 ‘‘ www.mominabox.net PUBLISHER William S. 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