Opinion: How did Chris Jordan last four years as city manager?
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I don’t understand how Chris Jordan survived for four years as city manager of Los Altos. Why City Council put up with him […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I don’t understand how Chris Jordan survived for four years as city manager of Los Altos. Why City Council put up with him […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor On Election Night everyone was riveted on the presidential race, which is understandable, but several interesting local contests were decided too. The big […]
OPINION This was printed in Monday morning’s Daily Post. BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor With tomorrow’s election, many of us are dreading the vote-counting and litigating that could go […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Politicians like to say that every vote counts. But when it comes to mail-in voting, not so much. In the March primary, California […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If we want to reduce the influence of money in local politics, here’s a suggestion. City Council could have a rule that says […]
Below is a guest opinion piece in favor of Measure RR, the Caltrain sales tax. Under that is the Post’s editorial against the measure. Pro BY YORIKO KISHIMOTO Measure RR […]
RR — Reverse Robinhood tax Measure RR — No. This is a new one-eighth-of-a-cent sales tax that would last 30 years to fund Caltrain. The letters RR, in our opinion, […]
DAILY POST EDITORIAL One of the most touching anecdotes to come from the remembrances of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was her friendship with fellow Justice Antonin Scalia. Politically, […]
EDITORIAL We were thinking a few months ago that the pandemic would reduce the number of qualified people who wanted to run for local offices this fall. We were worried […]
This morning, Oct. 5, the Daily Post published guest opinion pieces from proponents and opponents of Measure S, a renewal of an existing parcel tax for the Santa Clara County […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’ve devoted a number of columns to wrongdoing by police, so I was happy the other day to learn about something the Palo […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Newspapers get a lot of letters from readers, more than we can ever publish. But I make it a priority to run those […]
GUEST OPINION By CARLIN OTTO Dear Palo Alto residents, as you consider opening Foothills Park to the general public, think about the following points: 1. During the last 20 years, […]
BY MARK OLBERT I was saddened, and disappointed, to hear the San Carlos School District will be filling a vacancy on its oversight board via appointment rather than election. I’m […]
BY MICKIE WINKLER Believe it or not the phrase “fighting fire with fire” refers to the practice, by pioneers as early as 1850, of starting controlled burns to prevent the […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s possible to see the allegations against Palo Alto City Councilman Greg Tanaka as mere paperwork errors. He didn’t file the right form […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The coronavirus pandemic is bad enough, but why does it have to come with annoying slogans? Here are a few that are grating […]
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor We won’t know for sure until the deadline on Friday, but it looks like voters won’t see a Caltrain sales tax on the November […]
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’ve been scratching my head over one of the claims that was made by the group of people who want to open Foothills Park […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The head of the state restaurant association has a simple question for Gov. Gavin Newsom — where’s the data? California was hit with […]
DAILY POST EDITORIAL Santa Clara County’s chief health officer, Dr. Sara Cody, has told the public schools they can’t allow choir, band or cheerleading this fall. And it looks like […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you follow the logic the Palo Alto City Council used in passing the tobacco ordinance that will close Mac’s Smoke Shop, it’s […]
The following letter appeared in the Monday, June 8, edition of the Daily Post. Dear Editor: At this historic time, civic leaders across America are being challenged to reassess the […]
BY MICKIE WINKLER The cities on the Peninsula have the opportunity right now to cut costs without cutting services. And right now, all budget-making politicians should be focused on doing […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor We were told that this shutdown would last three weeks. We were told that the coronavirus was 10 times more deadly than the […]
Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor When the coronavirus shutdown began on March 19, I was among many people who expected it to last for a few weeks as […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down California a month ago based on bad data, and now he needs to expedite the reopening of the […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If there’s a bright side to the coronavirus stay-at-home order, it’s the empty freeways. For years the public has been debating how to […]
Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Three weeks into this stay-at-home order and I think some of my friends are going stir crazy. I’ll get a phone call, text […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Today is the 11th day of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order and we don’t know when it will end. President Trump said he […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post editor If you’re over 40, you remember 9/11 and how the country came together afterward. Instead of being a Republican or a Democrat, everyone […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I want to tell you about a respiratory illness that’s spreading throughout the Bay Area, the nation and the world. It causes fevers, […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Perhaps the sneakiest thing on Tuesday’s ballot is a proposition that is getting almost zero attention from the news media. It’s called Prop. […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Alto Police Chief Robert Jonsen will have a sit-down tonight (Feb. 24) with the City Council to talk about “crime statistics, recent […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I suspect there’s more to the story about why Carl Guardino has resigned as head of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the high-profile […]
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