OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor During the Covid lockdown, beloved local businesses in Palo Alto permanently closed. Many of those that reopened are barely hanging on. So it’s […]
GUEST OPINION BY JOHN McNELLIS Once upon a time University Avenue was the main entrance to Stanford University. Not today. Our City Council shut the avenue a year ago in […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Apple has announced plans to scan iPhones for images of child sexual abuse and report offenders to law enforcement. Child protection groups cheered […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor For the first time since 2010, Santa Clara County residents will have a choice next year for district attorney. Incumbent Jeff Rosen will […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’m fully vaccinated. So is my wife and son. Everybody I work with has been vaccinated. I can’t think of a friend who […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you want to avoid paying the $806 annual fee to park in the downtown Palo Alto parking garages, here’s a tip. Dress […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Last year, when the city of Palo Alto’s finances were in terrible shape because of the lockdown, some city employees stepped forward and […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It looks like Palo Alto is going to lose its courthouse. That’s not the final decision, but the place suffering the death of […]
GUEST OPINION By Patrick Siegman My mom and dad bought their first house in Palo Alto for about $16,000. At the time, it cost about five cents per hour to […]
GUEST OPINION BY MARK OLBERT In a rare act of near unanimity, Congress voted to recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday and President Biden signed it into law this week. […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The meanings of words are changing faster today than at any time I can remember. This is frustrating. I think we should all […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The news that Caltrain is delaying its switch to electric trains by two years, and that the project is $330 million over budget, […]
Originally published May 17, 2021 in the Daily Post. If you missed this in print, get in the habit of picking up the Post in the mornings. Only a fraction […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor When a government agency is proud of what it’s done, they’ll have a PR person send the media a press release to trumpet […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor As the pandemic fades away, we as a society need to take an unflinching look back at what we did to combat Covid […]
GUEST OPINION BY MARK OLBERT I see the city of San Carlos appears on track to continue its habit of significantly exceeding budget projections. Overall revenues were higher than expected […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you think of yourself as a fiscal conservative, you ought to be in favor of police reform. A poorly-run police department with […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’ll admit that I don’t understand this. When the automobile first became popular in the early 1900s, it wasn’t necessary for the government […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor One of the messages from last summer’s George Floyd marches was that police departments need to be more accountable. But in the months […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Police scanners played an important role in the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, according to Mountain View City Councilwoman Sally Lieber. And […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s odd that local governments, such as the city of San Carlos, are just now deciding to force grocery stores to boost their […]
GUEST OPINION BY RISHI KUMAR Silicon Valley’s tech exodus is weighing California down. For California’s legislators, the solution is obvious — more housing! With some upcoming bills, state legislators are […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor A friend the other day gave me a copy of a 1993 survey of Palo Alto residents commissioned by the city. The 28-year-old […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Five local officials deserve a round of applause for calling attention to the fact that East Palo Alto residents are getting far fewer […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor We don’t need the government to decide what TV channels we watch, what newspapers we read or what websites we can visit. The […]
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The dispute over the decision by Palo Alto, Mountain View and Los Altos to encrypt their police radio frequencies may just boil down to […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The dispute over the decision by Palo Alto, Mountain View and Los Altos to encrypt their police radio frequencies may just boil down […]
This was originally published on Jan. 25 in the Daily Post. BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Last week I wrote about the irony that scientists could produce a Covid […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor San Mateo County’s leaders have made little progress in stemming the spread of Covid-19 in East Palo Alto and North Fair Oaks, with […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor This doesn’t make sense. A few months ago, the Palo Alto city budget was so tight that the Fire Department was forced to […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor America developed a vaccine for Covid-19 in record time. Nobody thought the scientists and pharmaceutical companies could come up with vaccines in a […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Government, business and nonprofit leaders need to make a full court press to stop the surge of Covid cases in East Palo Alto […]
Daily Post Editorial Palo Alto police have decided to encrypt their radio transmissions, a move that will severely limit the ability of journalists to do their jobs. Moreover, members of […]
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Somebody in our newsroom suggested that we put together the “year in review” story for 2020. It’s a staple of newspapers and TV […]
GUEST OPINION This guest opinion piece originally appeared in Friday’s Daily Post. To keep up on what’s happening locally, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 mid-Peninsula locations. […]
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