Opinion
Theater review: Drag queen play is a strange mixture
REVIEW BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic “The Legend of Georgia McBride” is a strange play. In part, it is a tutorial for straight men on how to […]
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: City should drop the wildly inaccurate, pointless Business Registry
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The city of Palo Alto’s Business Registry is a failure and should be scrapped. The registry is the program that requires every business […]
Opinion
Opinion: School board disregards your right to know
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Has President Trump’s claim that the press is the enemy of the people trickled down to the Palo Alto school board? I wonder, […]
Los Altos
Opinion: Fridays off policy should have gone to a vote
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I was surprised to learn that Los Altos City Manager Chris Jordan decided on his own, without a public hearing or a vote […]
Opinion
A bit of Silicon Valley history — the Ampex sign — is about to disappear
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor What would happen if somebody bought the house at 367 Addison Ave. in Palo Alto and decided to tear down the outdated garage […]
Menlo Park
Menlo Park switches to district elections but fails to attract any Latino candidates
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor What was the point of dividing Menlo Park into five districts for City Council elections? An anonymous party, speaking through a Southern California […]
Opinion
Opinion: Questions incumbents should ask themselves — and ideas for first-time candidates
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you’re an incumbent council member in the mid-Peninsula and you’re thinking about running for another four-year term, ask yourself some questions. • […]
Opinion
Opinion: City has lots of money but wants more
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The city government in Redwood City had a surplus of $26 million for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2017, and $31 […]
Opinion
Opinion: Ignore magical thinking when it comes to Stanford housing
Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor When developers want to get a project approved, they often become clever if they’re forced to answer basic questions. Such is the case […]
Opinion
Guest Opinion: A solution to Stanford’s housing dilemma
GUEST OPINION BY LENNY SIEGEL AND CORY WOLBACH As early as April 1969, Stanford University’s Moulton Committee — made up of students, faculty and staff — found that the university […]
Google
Opinion: Why Mountain View’s proposed head tax is a dumb idea
IOPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I cringed when I watched Mountain View City Council stumble its way into putting an employee head tax on the November ballot the […]
Opinion
Opinion: Harvard could help Palo Alto with its bad art
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The story of the ugly Digital DNA egg in Palo Alto’s Lytton Plaza had a happy ending when Harvard gratefully accepted the sculpture. […]
Caltrain
Reported rape on Caltrain slips through the cracks
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The Post printed a startling story Wednesday about a Caltrain conductor accused of raping a 22-year-old Mountain View woman in an employees-only area […]
Opinion
Gunn faculty members have starring roles in 1930s madcap comedy ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’
BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic A cranky New York radio host breaks his hip on the ice in small-town Ohio at Christmastime, thus getting stuck in a […]
Opinion
Review: ‘FINKS’ — a romance during the anti-Communist witch hunt
REVIEW BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Reviewer Joe Gilford wrote a play about his parents’ participation in left-wing theater activities in the 1940s. It focuses on the Hollywood […]
Election 2018
Opinion: Why big business wants you to raise the bridge tolls
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor My guess is that when you pick up the Post tomorrow morning, you’ll read that the bridge toll hike was approved overwhelmingly by […]
Election 2018
Opinion: Momentum shifts in recall campaign
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The recall of Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky will be one of the closer races on election night. Momentum has shifted from […]
Election 2018
Editorial: Our recommendations on the five state ballot propositions
Here’s our view on the five state ballot propositions voters will decide June 5: Prop. 68 — Parks Bonds. No. This would authorize the state to sell $4 billion in […]
Election 2018
Editorial: Re-elect Mark Church as assessor, clerk, recorder and elections officer
DAILY POST EDITORIAL The word “innovator” doesn’t apply to many people in government, but an exception is Mark Church, San Mateo County’s Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder and Chief Elections Officer. Under Church’s […]
Election 2018
Editorial: Re-elect County Supervisor Don Horsley
DAILY POST EDITORIAL San Mateo County Supervisor Don Horsley, at age 75, sounds like a young man when he discusses his ambitious agenda if he is re-elected in the June […]