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Plenty of buzz at this car show

By Shaun Bishop / Daily News Staff Writer Steve Bischoff drove his white 1995 Tropica roadster from his home in South San Jose to an electric car show in...

GoToMyCamera Takes Surveillance to the Cloud on the Cheap

UPDATED: It s no cheap exercise to implement a surveillance system to record what goes on at home or at one s place of business. And as for the hardware,...

95-year-old victim of fatal crash

PALO ALTO, CA -- A 95-year-old San Carlos woman who was killed in a two-vehicle crash that temporarily shut down a major Palo Alto intersection Thursday...

Electric Vehicle Rally lets attendees test drive energy independence

By Lisa M. Krieger Saturday's declaration of energy independence in Palo Alto sounded nothing like the spin of recent political conventions....

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Key facts for Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, California Population (2007) :58246
Population (2000 census)58598
Median real estate taxes2936
Median year structure built1957
Median gross rent1349
Median household income in 199990377
Per capita income in 199956257
Median gross rent as a percentage of household income in 199926
Median Value of Owner Occupied Houses776000
Languages Spoken
Speak only English71.36%
Chinese7.53%
Spanish or Spanish Creole4.45%
French (incl. Patois, Cajun)2.25%
Russian2.20%
German1.72%
Japanese1.49%
Korean1.29%