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The puzzling closure of the Oasis
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The closing of the Oasis Beer Garden in Menlo Park has been puzzling. We all know it was because of a lease dispute […]
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City should keep council chambers remodel simple, inexpensive
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s hard to know what the Palo Alto City Council’s priorities are these days. Is it a tax increase to fund infrastructure improvements […]
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School board ignored diversity policy while renaming schools
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s bad that the school board removed the names Terman and Jordan from two middle schools in Palo Alto. It’s even worse that […]
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Opinion: Gun buy-back days are an empty gesture
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor In the wake of the Florida high school shooting, the momentum behind more gun control laws is growing. I’m not going to take […]
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Review: ‘Cowboy versus Samurai?’ a powerful play
THEATER REVIEW BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic “Cowboy versus Samurai?” Does that mean a play about John Wayne and Toshiro Mifune? No. Instead, “Cowboy versus Samurai” recounts […]
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Opinion: School might get the name of Pearl Harbor mastermind Yamamoto
OPINION Originally published Monday, March 19. BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor An unfortunate coincidence has surfaced in the Palo Alto school board’s plans to rename Terman and Jordan middle […]
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Opinion: Roundabouts spark outrage and 10 more are on the way
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you think driving is more difficult in Palo Alto these days, it’s not your imagination. In fact, it’s intentional. The city of […]
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Review: ‘Skeleton Crew’ looks at morality amid crisis
BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic The collapse of the auto industry in Detroit frames the story of “Skeleton Crew,” a 2016 play by Dominique Morisseau, which opened […]
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Guest Opinion: What about justice for Fred Terman?
GUEST OPINION BY ROBERT SMITH The Palo Alto Unified School District decided last year to proceed with renaming the Jordan and Terman middle schools because of the advocacy of eugenics […]
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How Facebook can be a good neighbor
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s ironic that at the same time Facebook is proposing a massive expansion that will worsen the housing-jobs imbalance on the Peninsula, the […]
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Theater review: ‘9 to 5’ a bawdy, slapstick adventure
BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic Before there was the Me-Too movement, there was the movie “9 to 5,” followed by the television series “9 to 5” — […]
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A sneaky way to influence local government
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Imagine if you could cloak your identity and anonymously change the policy of a local government? Far fetched? Not in California, where it […]
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Perspective on the city surpluses, Paly’s Franco mural, a mega development, the Depot Cafe closing and the big flood’s anniversary
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Here’s a quick perspective on five local stories that have made news in the past week. Local cities rack up hefty surpluses — […]
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Theater review: Eerie ‘1984’ has relevance today
BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Reviewer Attention, citizens. In case of a political emergency you may have to report to the Ministry of Love. That’s one of many […]
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Menlo Park library bond issue is dead but downtown parking structure-theater idea is very much alive
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I think the idea of replacing the Menlo Park Library at 800 Alma St. with a brand new one is dead, but another […]
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The other side of the toll hike story
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor There are two sides to every story, and there’s another side to the story about the proposed 60% toll hike on seven of […]
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Term limits for school board members? Here’s the other side of the story
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The Palo Alto school board has decided to spend $100,000 in taxpayer dollars to ask voters this November if they’d like impose term […]
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Teacher housing proposal is a great idea
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor There’s a lot of things to like about Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian’s proposal to build teacher housing at 231 Grant Ave. […]
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Review: ‘Great Tchaikovsky’ struggles to tell a story
REVIEW BY JOHN ANGELL GRANT Daily Post Theater Critic Hershey Felder is at it again. The man who has written and performed one-man theatrical piano biographies of Leonard Bernstein, George […]
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Our local legislators can preserve the state and local tax deduction
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Our mid-Peninsula state legislators should step up and repair some of the damage that will be done by the Republican tax bill Congress […]