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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 […]
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Online shopping takes the fun out of Christmas
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor This isn’t a profound observation, but online shopping has taken a lot of fun out of Christmas. For the last century, the Christmas […]
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County is cooking up yet another sales tax increase
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Could the tax-raisers give the rest of us a break? The San Mateo County Supervisors are moving ahead with plans to put a […]
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Wrong verdict in the Kate Steinle case
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Despite what you may have read or seen elsewhere, the acquittal of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate on murder charges was hardly a surprise […]
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Time to democratize public art
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you heard cheering Friday morning, it’s because people read our story about the Palo Alto Public Art Commission’s decision to rid the […]
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An important local sex harassment suit targets police chief
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor While sexual misconduct allegations against high-profile figures like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore have dominated the headlines, a […]
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Mark Zuckerberg’s PR stunt
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I burst out laughing when I got a press release from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative saying it is working on creating “new regional […]
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2 Stanford developments in trouble
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor You’ve got to wonder what Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the new president of Stanford University, is thinking right now. The approval of an office building […]
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Local politicians should ask themselves: Have you made people’s lives better?
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor You probably read that senators Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., announced that they wouldn’t be running next November. This is the […]
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Proposal would take away 80% of residents’ voting rights for City Council
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Menlo Park has a problem because residents from the Belle Haven neighborhood haven’t been able to win a seat on the City Council. […]
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Opinion: Support LBGT rights or get a free trip?
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor What a conflict city council members across the Peninsula are facing. The state of California has banned travel by state employees to nine […]