Opinion

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 […]

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 […]