Opinion

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 […]