Opinion

BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor Stanford is preparing for a withering storm. Consider the following events: • Early January — Stanford removes all references to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs from […]

BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor A cornerstone of good government is the California Public Records Act, which requires government agencies to release public documents with limited exceptions.  The law promotes […]

Palo Alto’s City Council and City Manager Ed Shikada are trying to figure out how to bring back foot traffic to downtown.  Council is moving ahead with an idea, proposed […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor I’d like to respond today to the arguments I think San Mateo County Christina Corpus will make in an attempt to convince voters to […]

BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor It can be a big mistake to sign a contract without reading it. If you don’t look carefully at, say, an auto financing contract, you […]

BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor I can’t wait to see tomorrow night’s Menlo Park City Council meeting. I hope to get an answer to a question that I’ve been wondering […]

BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor A big mistake by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters may possibly change the composition of the Palo Alto City Council. While most people […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor A reader brought to my attention an email newsletter from San Mateo County Supervisor Noelia Corzo, sent out on a county government account, […]

CORRECTION: Recent articles in the Daily Post (Aug. 31, Sept. 6, 8 and 21) about the San Mateo County Sheriff’s office that included references to Victor Aenlle, the Office’s Executive Director of […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor This is a story that will leave your head shaking it’s so unbelievable. Palo Alto Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims says she wants the city to […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor A court has ruled that the city of East Palo Alto can seize the mismanaged East Palo Alto Sanitary District, but an important […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The town of Los Altos has fallen for a scam that will cost taxpayers at least $30,000. A Malibu attorney, Kevin Shenkman, sent […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Alto’s two commercial areas, University Avenue and California Avenue, are slowly dying right in front of our eyes. They’re becoming dingy and […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Menlo Park City Council won’t have much of a City Council race this year because only three candidates have signed up to run […]

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office is in crisis, judging from a confidential memo Sheriff Christina Corpus sent her employees on Friday.  Her […]

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor The newly created regional agency that plans to ask voters for a $20 billion housing bond issue in November made a huge error […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor It’s a sad situation that has been repeated in Palo Alto many times. A Caltrain strikes a person on the tracks. Ambulances and police […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor Political leaders on the Peninsula got a wake-up call the other day. Voters in the San Mateo County city of Millbrae recalled two council […]

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor Julie Lythcott-Haims should have leveled with the voters two years ago about why she left her job as a dean at Stanford following […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The goal of a city council member should be to make their city better. A council member running for re-election should be able […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor A year after it was due, Santa Clara County has finally released a state-required “after-action” report that analyzes how well the county government handled […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor San Mateo County’s sheriff’s deputies didn’t get much advance notice that the No. 2 person in the department, Undersheriff Chris Hsiung, was leaving […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor An estimated 39% of small, independent businesses in California were forced to permanently close during the pandemic, according to research by Harvard. Those […]

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor If you work in a newsroom, you never known what’s going to arrive at the front desk or in the mail on any […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor San Mateo County officials including Sheriff Christina Corpus have put a vending machine in the jail lobby that dispenses Narcan, the drug that […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor I’m puzzled why a San Mateo County supervisor is thinking about launching a $1 million program to combat loneliness. I can’t fault the motives […]

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I hate it when we run stories about police officers being sued or accused of wrongdoing. We publish those stories because you have a […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Alto just lost its representative in Congress. San Jose, which is already represented by Zoe Lofgren, Ro Khanna and Jimmy Panetta, is […]

By Dave Price Daily Post Editor This week I’m going to skip my usual commentary about current events in our community and tell you a personal story. I’m not looking […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I love how Palo Alto and the mid-Peninsula have become a mecca for bicyclists, with great paths and protected lanes nearly everywhere. But […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor News is the unexpected, something unusual. So it was truly news last week to learn that nurses from Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s locations […]

Originally published on Feb. 12, 2024. OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Stanford never comes out and openly endorses a candidate. Maybe they’re worried about losing their tax exempt […]

Editorials in the Daily Post represent the opinion of the newspaper’s management and in no way reflect the views of the reporting staff. Of the 11 candidates in the March […]

Los Altos City Council made the right decision by rejecting a request by Councilwoman Lynette Lee Eng to have the city pay $3,000 for a trip she would take to […]

By Dave Price Daily Post Editor Politicians and the media are scratching their heads, wondering why people are fleeing California. The cost of living is one big factor. Property taxes […]

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor Palo Alto City Manager Ed Shikada has locked down City Hall and members of the public can’t visit most parts of the building […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor City officials hate it when you bring up their surpluses. When voters hear that Redwood City, for instance, banked a $58 million surplus, they […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor High rents and the ability to find an apartment. Over the years, those seem to be the two problems renters have encountered. So […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Onetta Harris, who died in 1982 at age 57, was a volunteer and activist who ran a teen program that kept youth away […]

This was originally published March 13, 2023, in the Daily Post. BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’ve received a couple of emails asking me to write an editorial against […]

OPINION Sept. 25, 2023 BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Former Peninsula Congresswoman Jackie Speier has made it clear that she’s the kingpin of San Mateo County politics. But at […]

Sept. 11, 2023 BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s always a good idea to turn off your phone at church. Not just for the obvious reason — you don’t […]

Aug. 7, 2023 OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor You’ve got to wonder who fell asleep at Stanford and didn’t move the university the Big 10 or the Big […]

July 24, 2023 OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s hard to believe, but a developer has submitted plans to demolish the Sunset magazine campus on Willow Road in […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The announcement that the Bay Area may vote on a $10 billion to $20 billion housing bond measure next year left me with […]

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s a coin flip as to whether the state Fair Political Practices Commission will exempt Palo Alto Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims from the law that […]

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you haven’t noticed, people are leaving the Peninsula and California in droves. The state’s “net outmigration” — demographers lingo for more people leaving […]

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor In 2019, the Mountain View Whisman School Board decided to name an elementary school after local Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. Mountain […]

This was originally printed in the Daily Post on March 13, 2023. OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I don’t mind tipping for service, having worked once as a […]

Opinion By Dave Price Daily Post Editor I wonder whether the artificial intelligence craze, popularized by the new app ChatGPT, is just another gimmick that will fade away in the […]

OPINION April 24, 2023 BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Many elected officials in San Mateo County were living it up over the weekend (April 21-23) at the San Mateo […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’m concerned that the independent consulting company Santa Clara County has hired to investigate the county health department’s handling of the Covid pandemic […]

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor Palo Alto City Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims is in the middle of another controversy. This time the issue is whether she’s violating the state […]

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I don’t mind tipping for service, having worked once as a bartender in what is now called the “hospitality industry.” I understand the concept […]

BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor Guess which local elected official said this: “Transparency is essential to building trust with our community.” Any guesses? This official then says: “By building an […]

OPINION Jan. 30, 2023 BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The shootings of seven farmworkers near Half Moon Bay is tragic, and it’s brought attention to the squalid housing in […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s sad leaders of Palo Alto, Menlo Park and East Palo Alto haven’t replaced the Pope-Chaucer Bridge over San Francisquito Creek that caused […]

Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The five-member Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has made a mistake by selecting a new county CEO behind closed doors and without […]

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor We’ll come out with our City Council endorsements in a future edition, but one candidate has already shown she shouldn’t get the job. Candidate […]

Opinion of the Daily Post In this campaign, three candidates have emerged from the pack as the best choices for Palo Alto City Council — Ed Lauing, Doria Summa and […]

Opinion of the Daily Post In the four-way race for two seats on the Palo Alto school board, newcomer Shana Segal and incumbent Shounak Dharap are the best choices. Shana […]

Opinion of the Daily Post The Daily Post recommends a “yes” vote on Measure K, a narrowly focused business tax that’s the product of lengthy negotiations with the business community. […]

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The trial of Sheriff Laurie Smith is a waste of time and money. Smith is accused of corruption — giving gun permits to campaign […]

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor An official who tried to keep the public in the dark about a sewer agency’s $1.8 million in payments in a sexual harassment case […]

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Flint, Mich., Jackson, Miss., and East Palo Alto are three cities that have serious drinking water problems. The first two cities have received a […]

BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor You hear all sorts of people these days saying we have to “save democracy.” But when democracy on the local level is jeopardized, you don’t […]

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s encouraging that the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, the five-member panel that includes Joe Simitian of Palo Alto, has hired an outside […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Tomorrow (Aug. 2) will mark the 15th anniversary of the murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey in Oakland. Bailey, 57, was shot and killed […]

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Giselle Hale’s decision to withdraw from the Assembly race was a surprise. As reported in Saturday’s Post, Hale said she decided to drop out […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor This is the time of year when possible City Council candidates begin testing the water to see if they should run in November. […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor The city of Palo Alto unwittingly or intentionally is getting its facts wrong about the encryption of police radios.For 70 years, cities in California […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE DAILY POST EDITOR The five-member San Mateo County Board of Supervisors isn’t sure whether to put a parcel tax on the November ballot that would raise […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Alto is beginning the search for a new police chief to replace Robert Jonsen, who is retiring. Let me offer five suggestions […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor When a public agency spends your money, you’re entitled to know how it was spent. The California Public Records Act, or CPRA, allows […]

GUEST OPINION BY ANTONIO LOPEZ The struggle to house all in one of the richest places in the world is Silicon Valley’s greatest social riddle; it flies in the face […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Every year, the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce has a gala event to honor the recipients of the Tall Tree awards. The recipients […]

This was originally published Jan. 24 in the Daily Post. OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Why are Redwood City officials keeping secret the locations where cannabis companies want […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor When Pets In Need told Palo Alto officials they were canceling their contract to run the Palo Alto Animal Shelter, the reaction of […]

OPINION Originally published Dec. 20, 2021 BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor This is the time of year for gift-giving — and the city of Palo Alto got a big […]

OPINION December 13, 2021 BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Alto should start building affordable housing above city-owned parking lots downtown and in the California Avenue district. The benefits […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s bad enough that a veteran Palo Alto police sergeant slammed a handcuffed man into a car windshield and mocked him for being […]