Opinion
Opinion: Don’t spend city surplus on bonuses
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor San Carlos City Councilman Ron Collins is proposing that the city use part of its newfound $7 million surplus on 5% bonuses for […]
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Opinion
Opinion: A landslide of local incumbents lost
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Mid-Peninsula voters fired an extraordinary number of city council incumbents in the Nov. 6 election. By my count, at least five of the […]
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Guest opinion: Stanford is quietly buying up houses
GUEST OPINION BY PRIA GRAVES While the public and elected officials are focused on Stanford’s 2018 General Use Permit (GUP) application and their proposed Development Agreement, there is another, quieter, […]
Menlo Park
Opinion: A candidate with ethics, integrity
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Got an interesting phone call the other night from a reader who was moved by the story we printed about Menlo Park City […]
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Opinion: SamTrans has a lot of chutzpah rolling out expensive new buses before Measure W vote
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor You’ve got to hand it to the people at SamTrans. They have a lot of chutzpah. They’re asking people to approve Measure W, […]
Opinion
Opinion: Prop 8 goes too far, interferes with medical care
OPINION BY TOM ELIAS Daily Post Columnist Suppose for a moment that your favorite relative – father, mother, aunt, uncle, brother or sister – were getting urgently needed cancer treatment […]
Atherton
Editorial: Our recommendations for the Menlo Park fire board
DAILY POST EDITORIAL Four excellent candidates are running for three seats in the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, which also includes Atherton, west Menlo Park, North Fair Oaks and East […]
Mountain View
Editorial: Siegel, Showalter, Inks for Mountain View council
DAILY POST EDITORIAL The two Mountain View City Council incumbents, Lenny Siegel and Pat Showalter, deserve applause for aggressively promoting the construction of housing. They were key players in reaching […]
Opinion
Editorial: No on Measure E
DAILY POST EDITORIAL Palo Alto’s Measure E seems like a tax inspired by a Monty Python skit. In one episode, a politician in a bowler hat says, “To improve the […]
Opinion
Editorial: Holman best choice for Midpen open space board
DAILY POST EDITORIAL The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space district doesn’t make the headlines very often, and it’s even more unusual to have a hotly competitive race for a seat on […]
Menlo Park
Editorial: Our choices for Menlo Park City Council
DAILY POST EDITORIAL If you’re a Menlo Park resident, ask yourself a few questions. Has your life improved in the past few years because of actions by the city government? […]
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Editorial: No on Measure F, a disastrous idea
DAILY POST EDITORIAL Measure F on the Palo Alto ballot is a reckless attempt by a labor union, SEIU-UHW, to gain more bargaining power by reducing medical services available to […]
Opinion
Editorial: Dauber, Dharap for Palo Alto school board
DAILY POST EDITORIAL Let’s start off this editorial by admitting we made a mistake four years ago when we didn’t endorse Ken Dauber for Palo Alto school board. We were […]
Opinion
Opinion: Cormack, Filseth, DuBois best choices for City Council
DAILY POST EDITORIAL It’s not often that a great city council candidate comes along like Alison Cormack. She’s the Palo Alto woman who led the campaign a decade ago to […]
Los Altos
Editorial: In Los Altos, no on Measure C, yes for Enander, Fligor
DAILY POST EDITORIAL Measure C in Los Altos was initially promoted as a measure that would stop the sale of city parks without a vote of the people. The group […]
Opinion
Guest opinion: Preserve Stanford foothills forever
GUEST OPINION BY PETER DREKMEIER The debate over development in the Stanford foothills dates back to the founding of the university. Frederick Law Olmsted, Leland Stanford’s pick to design the […]
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: 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 […]