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Crews have removed the white letters from the Ampex sign along Highway 101 in Redwood City. The sign will be removed this week. Post photo.
Opinion

A bit of Silicon Valley history — the Ampex sign — is about to disappear

August 17, 2018 12:53 am

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 in Palo Alto and decided to tear down the outdated garage […]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

August 16, 2018 12:56 am

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

July 31, 2018 11:51 am

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

July 27, 2018 10:54 am

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

July 23, 2018 11:27 am

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

July 6, 2018 2:45 pm

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

July 5, 2018 5:55 pm

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

July 5, 2018 5:50 pm

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

June 25, 2018 1:11 pm

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 […]

From left, Shawn Bender as John, Patricia Tyler as Sarah, and James Shelby as Sheridan Whiteside in the Palo Alto Players’ “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” Photo by Joyce Goldschmid.
Opinion

Gunn faculty members have starring roles in 1930s madcap comedy ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’

June 19, 2018 9:11 am

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 […]

Natalie (Donna Vivino) and Bobby (Leo Ash Evens) do the Lindy Hop in “FINKS” presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Photo by Kevin Berne.
Opinion

Review: ‘FINKS’ — a romance during the anti-Communist witch hunt

June 11, 2018 4:13 pm

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 […]

Opinion

Opinion: Why big business wants you to raise the bridge tolls

June 5, 2018 12:26 am

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 […]

Opinion

Opinion: Momentum shifts in recall campaign

June 4, 2018 12:53 pm

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 […]

Opinion

Editorial: Our recommendations on the five state ballot propositions

May 24, 2018 12:58 am

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 […]

Opinion

Editorial: Re-elect Mark Church as assessor, clerk, recorder and elections officer

May 19, 2018 12:01 am

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 […]

Opinion

Editorial: Re-elect County Supervisor Don Horsley

May 19, 2018 12:01 am

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 […]

Opinion

Editorial: Vote ‘no’ on the toll hike, Regional Measure 3

May 11, 2018 1:53 am

DAILY POST EDITORIAL We urge you to vote “no” on Regional Measure 3 on the June 5 ballot, which would raise tolls by $3 on seven of the bridges that […]

Nancy Magee
Opinion

Editorial: Nancy Magee for San Mateo County school superintendent

May 10, 2018 4:24 pm

DAILY POST EDITORIAL In the race for superintendent of the San Mateo County Office of Education, Nancy Magee is the clear choice. Both candidates are employees in the Redwood City-based […]

Opinion

Editorial: Vote ‘no’ on recall of Judge Persky

May 10, 2018 12:00 pm

DAILY POST EDITORIAL There’s more at stake in the recall election of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky than the six-month jail sentence he gave to Stanford swimmer […]

Mountain View

Pear Theater offers eight plays in 15 minute slices

May 9, 2018 2:19 pm

BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic Mountain View’s Pear Theater opened eight world premiere plays over the weekend (May 6-7). Each play is 15 minutes long, and all […]

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