While city officials wait for developer Jeffrey A. Morris to submit final plans for an office-retail building at Main and First streets, questions remain as to whether the city’s process produced the optimal result.

The 0.78-acre site, former site of a KFC franchise, has remained undeveloped since the city purchased the land for parking in 1995. A hotel planned and approved for the site never materialized after the developers withdrew.

Brett McConnell’s amazing transition from high school volleyball player to community college basketball standout probably wouldn’t have happened without karate.

The Mountain View High graduate isn’t a student of the martial arts, but a karate exhibition in the Foothill College quad last March led to a fateful meeting with Owls basketball player Dave Fullenwiley.

Due to the economic downturn and with many homeowners underwater, lenders have tightened loan requirements, even for creditworthy borrowers.

There has been concern about credit and, according to a credit specialist, many borrowers do not have the correct information.

Necessity is the motivation of many useful inventions – just ask Hesky Kutscher.

After enduring two distinct critical events, Kutscher developed motherknows.com, an online service that enables parents to store and access their children’s medical records quickly and easily.

It is unexpected that someone like Louis Zamperini would still be alive, let alone at age 94, still speaking his truth to large audiences who have come to know him through Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling book “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival. Resilience, and Redemption” (Random House, 2010).