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Opinion: Our leaders were repeatedly wrong about the coronavirus
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 […]
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Opinion: Gov. Newsom, when does this ‘moment’ end?
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 […]
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Opinion: Time to carefully reopen California
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 […]
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Opinion: Stay-at-home order points to traffic solution
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 […]
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Opinion: Stay positive and set a good example
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 […]
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Opinion: When will the stay-at-home order end?
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 […]
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Opinion: Let’s find ways to help one another
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 […]
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Opinion: This illness might just surprise you
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, […]
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Opinion: Reject the 2020 version of Prop. 13
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. […]
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Opinion: Advice I wish I had given Capt. Perron
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Alto Police Chief Robert Jonsen will have a sit-down tonight (Feb. 240 with the City Council to talk about “crime statistics, recent […]
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Opinion: There may be more to the story behind Carl Guardino’s resignation
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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Opinion: No rush on the rail crossing tax — take some time and get it right
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s becoming evident that Palo Alto officials won’t be able to make a good decision on the future of the rail crossings by […]
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Opinion: Council should reject plan to reduce police transparency
Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Alto City Attorney Molly Stump will ask City Council tonight (Dec. 16) to vote on a dreadful proposal to reduce public oversight […]
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Opinion: Many bicyclists are putting their lives at risk
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor One of the scariest things drivers face are bicyclists who don’t stop at stop signs or stop lights. Nobody wants to hit a […]
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Opinion: Council not using tool to rein in police
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Altans have reason to be concerned about a series of cases accusing the city’s police officers. • On Nov. 18, City Council […]
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Opinion: Want to ban something? Ask the people first
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’m disappointed that four city councils in our area have decided to place restrictions on natural gas rather than allowing consumers to decide […]
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Opinion: Stanford made one mistake after another
Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Watching Stanford stumble through the process to get a permit for its 3.5-million-square-foot expansion has been painful. I count myself as among those […]
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Opinion: Smell the air! Maybe I didn’t stop smoking after all?
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor These forest fires north of San Francisco have become an annual autumn nightmare. We’re fortunate here on the Peninsula that the only consequence […]
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Opinion: How bribery works in today’s world
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor America has come a long way from the days of Tammany Hall, when a developer would have to lug a briefcase full of […]
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Opinion: Legislature sticks us with three lousy bills
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The state Legislature passed three lousy bills last week that are going to create a lot of problems for everyone. 1. Rent control, […]
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Opinion: School board, don’t squelch public input
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor My column today might seem too wonky, but please follow along. I’ve got an important point to make. I think it’s safe to […]
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Opinion: College district stuck with two very expensive chancellors
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Facts are slowly beginning to emerge about the decision by the board of the San Mateo County Community College District to remove longtime […]
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Guest opinion: Let’s not repeat the same mistakes again with Plan Bay Area
GUEST OPINION BY LYNETTE LEE ENG For many residents, traffic starts before 3 p.m. while our teachers and service workers struggle with prolonged and extensive commutes. People can’t get around […]
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Suit over Edgewood Shopping Center and its grocery store goes to appeals court
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Neighborhood residents are again rallying to preserve a grocery store in the Edgewood Shopping Center in Palo Alto. As part of a 2012 agreement […]
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Opinion: Coincidence or just a case of tit-for-tat?
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Is this a coincidence or just tit-for-tat? You be the judge. Last fall, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith told District Attorney Jeff […]
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Guest opinion: Protecting the public’s right to know
BY MARK OLBERT Earlier this year I became San Carlos’ representative on the Silicon Valley Clean Water commission. SVCW operates the sanitary waste treatment system serving Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood […]
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Opinion: Sewer plant manager’s $875,000 payout is over the top
Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I think the public is owed an explanation as to why a government agency, Silicon Valley Clean Water, wrote a severance check of […]
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Opinion: The ugly truth about red-light cameras
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor San Mateo has finally pulled the plug on its red-light cameras — about 10 years too late, in my opinion. In January 2009, […]
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Here’s what was happening in Palo Alto when man landed on the moon
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor First, I’d like to thank all of the people who wrote to us about their memories of watching the first moonwalk. We received […]
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Opinion: A sad piece of legislation on car camping at community colleges
Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Marc Berman, the former Palo Alto City Councilman who now represents the mid-Peninsula in the state Assembly, has introduced a bill that would […]
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Opinion: Google’s $1 billion housing offer not what it seems
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor “Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.” That observation penned by Plato applies to Google’s announcement that it […]
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Opinion: There’s another way to deal with plastic drinking straws than a ban from city hall
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor What happened to the idea of simply asking somebody to do something? Instead, people in local government have this mindset that they have […]
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Opinion: Housing moratorium would be a disaster
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Traffic and development in Menlo Park may have reached the tipping point. The two members of the Menlo Park City Council who were […]
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Opinion: SB50 — Not a victory but an opportunity
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’m sure many mid-Peninsula residents who have been fighting Senate Bill 50 breathed a sigh of relief when they learned the Senate Appropriations […]
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Guest Opinion: Let cities decide where and how to build housing
GUEST OPINION BY LENNY SIEGEL East Palo Alto’s leaders aren’t the only ones who believe that Palo Alto and other slow-growth communities need to “step up” and plan for substantial […]