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In The News: Rents, Mayhem and Google

Because so much more happens in the city of Mountain View than we can cover!

A lot happens in Mountain View. A lot. The city of approximately 75,000 people increases to more than 100,000 in the daytime, when people come from other Bay Area cities to work.

On weekends, attractions like Shoreline Amphitheatre, the Center for the Performing Arts and the hundreds of restaurants in the city serve as great day trips.

With so much going on and a lot of media attention focused on Mountain View, we decided to help you sort through it and compile some of the top news stories for you in one place. Feel free to add links of stuff we may have missed in the comment section below.

Find out what's happening in Mountain Viewwith free, real-time updates from Patch.

  • If you have one or more roommates but wish you could have your own place, keep dreaming. According to the San Jose Mercury, rents continue to rise in Silicon Valley. Actually South Bay rents beat out San Francisco. The average price in Mountain View in 2011 was $1,812 and increased 13.2 from 2010.
  • Google Labs, the division of Google that helped create such innovative products such as Maps and Alerts, will be shutdown the company announced on Wednesday. Here's a Washington Post blog post on the matter and Wired's too.
  • Now that the space shuttle program is being wound down by the government, the next race to the moon will be accomplished through the efforts of private companies, including Google through their Lunar X competition, the New York Times reports.


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