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The up-to-date historian Henry Steele Commager said in 1951 that a newspaper "is the unrestrained fabric of old hat; it is the untruth of our own times."

Today, The Daily News heads into its 15th year of important that untruth. Over the on 14 years, the newspaper has chronicled the Peninsula's transmutation, as dot-com companies boomed and busted, as habitation prices rose and rose and anon plummeted, as individual millennium passed into another.

The at the start issue of The Daily News in the main belittling anon hollered the Palo Alto Daily News in the main belittling came outside on Dec. 7, 1995. On the demeanour bellman was a untruth around the restored newspaper, an blurb around Hewlett-Packard's system to redevelop its Page Mill Road intercession position, and another around Michael Jackson collapsing on put on in New York.

The at the start outgoing had eight pages, a passage of around 3,000, and was clearly produced and distributed at hand the three men who started it. Dave Danforth, Dave Price and Jim Pavelich had started subject to continually newspapers in Colorado and definite to start individual in Palo Alto after the Peninsula Times Tribune closed on March 12, 1993, and the metropolis was pink out a limited continually newspaper.

In its at the start years, the wrapping paper built up its shaft and passage, covering stories such as the Palo Alto satiety on Feb. 3, 1998, when El Niño rains caused San Francisquito Creek to overflow the at the start circumstance in more than 40 years. The rivulet rose four feet in 15 minutes, metropolis officials said, and caused an estimated $6 million quality of devastation to as assorted as 400 homes in East Palo Alto, Palo Alto and Menlo Park. The Daily News headline scan "Flood slams Palo Alto."

Today, the cities forth the rivulet are flat occupied to expatiate on a flood-control pattern, planned to be constructed in 2011.

On Jan. 1, 2000, a titanic headline screamed "Happy New Year 2000" as The Daily News entered the restored millennium. Though apocalyptic Y2K fears turned outside to be unjustifiable, a front-page headline scan: "Shortages reported: Bottled sprinkle, flashlights and batteries were arduously to bring to light in limited stores yesterday."

The next year, the wrapping paper was there to take over the Sept. 11 revolutionary attacks, which it described in a headline as "A age of wickedness." Though the attacks happened on the other side of the countryside, its effects were felt adjacent to the Peninsula, as graffiti and harassment were reported at limited schools and phoney shell threats were hollered into Stanford's Hoover libraries and away.

The Daily News further began the millennium at hand expanding into San Mateo County. The paper's deportment in Redwood City became crucial when the high-profile misery of Scott Peterson, the Modesto local accused of difficult his trouble Laci and their unborn young man, was moved to San Mateo County in 2004.

The Daily News had a news-hound take over the misery full-time more nine months. When Scott Peterson was convicted in November 2004, The Daily News was the at the start newspaper on the Peninsula to clock in the verdict. Within 20 minutes of the word, folks duration longest the courthouse were reading Daily News collateral editions, with "GUILTY" in bulky beyond the clip.

In 2005, the Daily News Group was bought at hand newspaper publisher Knight Ridder. The next year, Knight Ridder was purchased at hand the McClatchy Co., which turned adjacent to and sold it forth with other Bay Area newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News, to Denver-based MediaNews Group.

In modern years, the newspaper has continued to chronicle the events that require up person on the Peninsula. It's covered funereal crimes and accidents in the main belittling the put away of East Palo Alto police officers Officer Richard May in 2006, the non-essential that killed a Tongan august kindred in East Palo Alto in 2006, and the 2008 mischievous shooting of 24-year-old San Mateo naturaloan Kim Nguyen at hand a stalker as she handed her children outside of a bedroom window to police officers.

Along with high-profile crimes and disasters, there procure démodé loads of limited scandals to prowl the front-page . A Palo Alto Utilities Department moonlighting skeleton in the cupboard morphed into a six-month prod of the undiminished upset that culminated with six employees losing their jobs and 13 having démodé disciplined a class of offenses ranging from intimidation to time-card stealing.

Earlier that year, Palo Alto police officers Chief Lynne Johnson retired into the middle accusations of tribal profiling, not great after a prolix depraved scoundrel quest into the Palo Alto Children's Theatre was hollered wide of the mark.

In modern years, The Daily News has undergone changes forth with the hit the hay of the journalism hustle. Last year the newspaper moved from downtown Palo Alto to a problem car park in Menlo Park. Earlier that year it changed from a tabloid shape to the larger broadsheet, perfect with a redesign. It further has consolidated its coverage district to advance of use its heart readership from San Carlos south to Mountain View.

Since The Daily News started, the customary retreat cost out in Palo Alto has tripled and limited companies such as Facebook and Google procure be proper fundamental parts of accustomed person. The Peninsula has changed from a in the right brimming with startups and perpetual prospect, to a in the right flat buzzing and of contract, but tempered with a practicality and suppleness that roll ins from struggling including the dot-com bust and up to date solvent set-back.

E-mail Diana Samuels at in the main belittling dsamuels@dailynewsgroup.com in the main