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Opinion: If you’re ‘woke,’ this won’t be a joke — these words will make you choke

June 17, 2021 12:21 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The meanings of words are changing faster today than at any time I can remember. This is frustrating. I think we should all […]

Caltrain

Opinion: With the latest Caltrain fiasco, it’s time to talk about merging railroad with BART

June 9, 2021 12:00 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The news that Caltrain is delaying its switch to electric trains by two years, and that the project is $330 million over budget, […]

Opinion

Opinion: Find a middle ground on housing; city attorney creates unnecessary mystery, and city examines its cybersecurity

May 30, 2021 11:16 pm

Originally published May 17, 2021 in the Daily Post. If you missed this in print, get in the habit of picking up the Post in the mornings. Only a fraction […]

Opinion

Opinion: 55 days later and state DOJ hasn’t complied with records request for information on police radio encryption

May 27, 2021 5:22 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor When a government agency is proud of what it’s done, they’ll have a PR person send the media a press release to trumpet […]

Opinion

Opinion: Important questions about the pandemic remain unanswered

May 7, 2021 8:01 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor As the pandemic fades away, we as a society need to take an unflinching look back at what we did to combat Covid […]

Opinion

Guest opinion: Wrong kind of budget in an emergency

April 29, 2021 11:50 pm

GUEST OPINION BY MARK OLBERT I see the city of San Carlos appears on track to continue its habit of significantly exceeding budget projections. Overall revenues were higher than expected […]

Opinion

Opinion: Bad police work is costly to taxpayers

April 21, 2021 12:25 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you think of yourself as a fiscal conservative, you ought to be in favor of police reform. A poorly-run police department with […]

Opinion

Opinion: Why is government building EV charging stations?

April 12, 2021 12:34 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’ll admit that I don’t understand this. When the automobile first became popular in the early 1900s, it wasn’t necessary for the government […]

Opinion

Opinion: Council tonight can make the Police Department more transparent

April 5, 2021 2:00 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor One of the messages from last summer’s George Floyd marches was that police departments need to be more accountable. But in the months […]

Opinion

Opinion: Police scanners and Civil Rights

April 2, 2021 12:24 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Police scanners played an important role in the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, according to Mountain View City Councilwoman Sally Lieber. And […]

Opinion

Opinion: ‘Hero Pay’ or ‘Hazard Pay’ proposal is unfair, risky

March 22, 2021 1:04 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s odd that local governments, such as the city of San Carlos, are just now deciding to force grocery stores to boost their […]

Opinion

Guest Opinion: SB9, SB10 are the kiss of death for neighborhoods

March 19, 2021 1:59 pm

GUEST OPINION BY RISHI KUMAR Silicon Valley’s tech exodus is weighing California down. For California’s legislators, the solution is obvious — more housing! With some upcoming bills, state legislators are […]

Opinion

Opinion: Top issues in Palo Alto in 1993 are familiar today

March 13, 2021 1:01 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor A friend the other day gave me a copy of a 1993 survey of Palo Alto residents commissioned by the city. The 28-year-old […]

East Palo Alto

Opinion: Kudos to local leaders who are fighting to get more vaccines to East Palo Alto

March 11, 2021 1:59 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Five local officials deserve a round of applause for calling attention to the fact that East Palo Alto residents are getting far fewer […]

Opinion

Opinion: Eshoo’s ‘questions’ a pressure tactic

March 4, 2021 3:26 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor We don’t need the government to decide what TV channels we watch, what newspapers we read or what websites we can visit. The […]

Opinion

Opinion: Encryption isn’t a ‘mandate,’ it’s a choice

February 14, 2021 1:02 pm

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The dispute over the decision by Palo Alto, Mountain View and Los Altos to encrypt their police radio frequencies may just boil down to […]

Opinion

Opinion: Police aren’t required to encrypt their radios

February 8, 2021 9:08 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The dispute over the decision by Palo Alto, Mountain View and Los Altos to encrypt their police radio frequencies may just boil down […]

Opinion

Opinion: Reopening schools isn’t as easy as it might sound

February 6, 2021 11:20 am

This was originally published on Jan. 25 in the Daily Post. BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Last week I wrote about the irony that scientists could produce a Covid […]

Opinion

Opinion: County shouldn’t keep Covid death statistics a secret

February 4, 2021 11:05 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor San Mateo County’s leaders have made little progress in stemming the spread of Covid-19 in East Palo Alto and North Fair Oaks, with […]

Opinion

Opinion: City should postpone construction of police station

February 1, 2021 1:01 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor This doesn’t make sense. A few months ago, the Palo Alto city budget was so tight that the Fire Department was forced to […]

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