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Run for City Council only if you want to improve your city

July 2, 2022 3:44 pm

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. […]

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Opinion: Daily Post election recommendations

June 4, 2022 8:06 am

Daily Post Editorial The following are the editorial page recommendations of the Daily Post for the June 5 primary. We’re printing them today because the ballots are hitting the mail […]

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OPINION: City won’t correct false information

May 30, 2022 8:32 am

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 […]

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Opinion: And now a word from our sponsor

May 27, 2022 1:52 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor In the next couple of months, you’re going to be hearing from the heads of nonprofits about that wonderful Willow Village project Facebook hopes […]

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Opinion: Advice to council regarding its flawed business tax

April 26, 2022 12:15 am

Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Please note that this is not an editorial against the city of Palo Alto’s proposed business tax. I’ll wait to write an editorial […]

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Opinion: Countywide parcel tax is a bad idea for many reasons

April 14, 2022 10:03 am

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 […]

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Opinion: Suggestions for picking a police chief and the U.S. should stay out of the Ukraine-Russian war

March 11, 2022 5:43 pm

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 […]

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Guest opinion: The Opportunity to Purchase Act is a high gamble with a modest payoff

February 28, 2022 12:03 am

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 […]

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Opinion: Tall Tree award to Dr. Cody sends the wrong message — let’s find out if the county handled the Covid crisis appropriately

February 16, 2022 3:31 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: New map app didn’t solve the problem of silencing police radios

February 14, 2022 1:34 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor A year after Palo Alto Police Chief Robert Jonsen decided to encrypt police radios — making it impossible for the public to monitor […]

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Opinion: Redwood City shouldn’t keep applications for pot stores secret; also a reporter is kicked out of Stanford mall and why is the U.S. participating in the Beijing Olympics?

February 12, 2022 1:19 am

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 […]

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Opinion: City manager shouldn’t tell council to keep information from the public

January 22, 2022 6:27 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: Redwood City needs to do a better job scrutinizing applications for cannabis store permits

January 15, 2022 6:27 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Remember Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon, where all of the children are above average? Redwood City has released a list of applicants for the […]

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Opinion: Questions about proposal to build a new city-owned gym

December 26, 2021 11:23 am

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 […]

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Opinion: An inexpensive solution to two problems

December 18, 2021 7:08 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: Why didn’t other cops report ‘The Fuse’?

December 11, 2021 4:20 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: Slow courts thwart the public’s right to know

November 23, 2021 5:05 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The public has a right to know how its money is spent. And there are statutes and case law that support that principle. […]

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Opinion: Downtown needs an old fashioned Jewish deli

November 18, 2021 11:35 am

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I admit this isn’t scientific, but it appears that the University Avenue district in Palo Alto is the slowest of the mid-Peninsula downtowns to […]

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Opinion: Why was Foothills president ousted? And county’s ‘hero bonuses’ are an insult

November 5, 2021 9:40 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The community is owed an explanation by members of the Foothill-DeAnza Community College District board about why they didn’t renew the contract of […]

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Opinion: Improvements needed on suicide prevention system

October 26, 2021 10:06 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The city of Palo Alto paid $1.5 million in 2018 to install a system of cameras and sensors to determine if people were […]

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Opinion: City should stop increasing its pension liabilities

October 25, 2021 1:47 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Alto’s pension liabilities continue to grow, and the city needs to take stronger actions. The first rule of holes is: Stop digging. […]

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Opinion: Fees haven’t ended housing crisis

October 19, 2021 3:13 pm

This column was printed Monday, Oct. 19. That evening the City Council voted 5-2 to increase fees developer of office buildings and R&D facilities must pay into a future housing […]

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Opinion: California’s finally got a courageous attorney general

October 18, 2021 10:38 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor California’s new attorney general, Democrat Rob Bonta, has more courage than I’ve seen in a Sacramento politician in years. A little more than […]

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Opinion: Give Mayor London Breed a break for going maskless

September 22, 2021 11:39 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor People should stop criticizing San Francisco Mayor London Breed for going maskless at a Tenderloin jazz club. “The fact that this is even […]

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Opinion: In the middle of the Covid health emergency, county officials consider total tobacco ban

September 20, 2021 4:14 pm

Word Count: 746 Published Sept. 13, 2021 BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Santa Clara County is still in a “state of emergency” due to the Covid pandemic. The Delta […]

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Opinion: Let the voters decide on a natural gas ban

August 31, 2021 12:30 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The climate change debate is hitting home, literally. Menlo Park City Council on Tuesday (Aug. 31) will discuss the radical idea of prohibiting […]

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Opinion: Don’t kick the little guys when they’re down

August 23, 2021 11:47 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor During the Covid lockdown, beloved local businesses in Palo Alto permanently closed. Many of those that reopened are barely hanging on. So it’s […]

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Guest opinion: Here’s how City Council could revive downtown

August 16, 2021 11:51 pm

GUEST OPINION BY JOHN McNELLIS Once upon a time University Avenue was the main entrance to Stanford University. Not today. Our City Council shut the avenue a year ago in […]

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Opinion: Apple becoming an arm of law enforcement

August 11, 2021 5:00 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Apple has announced plans to scan iPhones for images of child sexual abuse and report offenders to law enforcement. Child protection groups cheered […]

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Opinion: District attorney candidate emphasizes criminal justice reform

August 11, 2021 11:25 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor For the first time since 2010, Santa Clara County residents will have a choice next year for district attorney. Incumbent Jeff Rosen will […]

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Opinion: Why vaccine hesitant people are hesitant

July 28, 2021 2:37 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’m fully vaccinated. So is my wife and son. Everybody I work with has been vaccinated. I can’t think of a friend who […]

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Opinion: Save on downtown parking

July 24, 2021 6:42 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you want to avoid paying the $806 annual fee to park in the downtown Palo Alto parking garages, here’s a tip. Dress […]

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Opinion: The police reform idea nobody talks about

July 2, 2021 4:04 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Last year, when the city of Palo Alto’s finances were in terrible shape because of the lockdown, some city employees stepped forward and […]

The Palo Alto Courthouse at 270 Grant Ave. in the California Avenue district. Post file photo.
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Opinion: Palo Alto may soon lose its courthouse

June 25, 2021 12:12 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It looks like Palo Alto is going to lose its courthouse. That’s not the final decision, but the place suffering the death of […]

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Opinion: City’s parking laws raise housing costs

June 24, 2021 11:50 pm

GUEST OPINION By Patrick Siegman My mom and dad bought their first house in Palo Alto for about $16,000. At the time, it cost about five cents per hour to […]

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