Opinion
Opinion: Showdown over new housing expected tonight
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor A showdown could happen tonight (Nov. 26) over how much new housing Palo Alto will allow in the future. Palo Alto has arguably […]
Opinion
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 […]
Election 2018
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 […]
Opinion
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, […]
Election 2018
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 […]
Election 2018
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 […]
Election 2018
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 […]
Election 2018
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? […]
Opinion
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 […]
Election 2018
Opinion: The Daily Post’s recommendations on the state ballot propositions
DAILY POST EDITORIAL From rent control to gas taxes, from water projects to property tax valuations, Californians will have a variety of propositions to decide in the fall election. Here’s […]
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 […]
Opinion
A bit of Silicon Valley history — the Ampex sign — is about to disappear
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Opinion
Gunn faculty members have starring roles in 1930s madcap comedy ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’
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 […]
Opinion
Review: ‘FINKS’ — a romance during the anti-Communist witch hunt
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 […]
Election 2018
Opinion: Why big business wants you to raise the bridge tolls
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 […]
Election 2018
Opinion: Momentum shifts in recall campaign
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 […]