OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor What happened to the idea of simply asking somebody to do something? Instead, people in local government have this mindset that they have […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Traffic and development in Menlo Park may have reached the tipping point. The two members of the Menlo Park City Council who were […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’m sure many mid-Peninsula residents who have been fighting Senate Bill 50 breathed a sigh of relief when they learned the Senate Appropriations […]
GUEST OPINION BY LENNY SIEGEL East Palo Alto’s leaders aren’t the only ones who believe that Palo Alto and other slow-growth communities need to “step up” and plan for substantial […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Louis Brandeis, who was on the Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939, was famous for saying that sunlight is the best disinfectant. I […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana This month 17 years ago, the leaders of Menlo Park […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor State Sen. Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 50 — which would pre-empt local zoning to allow for more housing near transit and in “job […]
GUEST OPINION BY RAY MUELLER On May 6, the Menlo Park City Council will join the Palo Alto City Council for a special joint session to study and discuss the […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor When you’re in a difficult negotiation and feeling pressured, sometimes the best decision is to say “no.” That would be my advice to […]
Editorial opinion of the Daily Post (Originally printed in the Post on Wednesday, April 17) The Palo Alto school board needs to drop the side agreement it’s made with Stanford […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — A quote commonly attributed […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Whenever you’re negotiating for something — whether it is a new car, a house or a job — and you’re not getting what […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I think many of us had the same reactions to the news that the FBI had arrested 50 parents, coaches and others in […]
Originally published Feb. 4, 2019 OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Should the state punish a community because it has high-quality schools? State. Sen. Scott Wiener’s new bill to […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you’re a politician in Washington, you know you’ve made the big time when you’re impersonated on “Saturday Night Live.” But what if […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I was surprised the Palo Alto Unified School District paid a student’s family $190,000 to settle a claim, although no written claim was […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District doesn’t get much scrutiny. It’s the ultimate of sacred cows around here. The district was formed in […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The invitation looked suspicious. Carl Guardino, head of the lobbying outfit Silicon Valley Leadership Group, sent invitations on Friday to select elected officials […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’d like to begin 2019 with a note of optimism. Yes, the mid-Peninsula has a lot of difficult problems, but I’m optimistic that […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor With the new year and two new City Council members in Los Altos, here’s an opportunity to get off on the right step. […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The proponents of Measure W, the San Mateo County sales tax that narrowly passed in last month’s election, are on the hook now. […]
GUEST OPINION BY GARY KREMEN As many of you remember, the 1998 San Francisquito Creek record flood ravaged parts of Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Floodwaters from […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The people who bought the Hotel President in downtown Palo Alto have made a multimillion-dollar mistake. And now they’re asking City Council members […]
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Mark Shaw, an investigative reporter and author from Burlingame, is out with a new book that connects the dots in the biggest crime story […]
DAILY POST EDITORIAL We’re suspicious of the vote counting for Measure W, a half-cent sales tax that would fund SamTrans and various transportation projects in San Mateo County. For two […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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