Opinion

By Dave Price Daily Post Editor This week I’m going to skip my usual commentary about current events in our community and tell you a personal story. I’m not looking […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I love how Palo Alto and the mid-Peninsula have become a mecca for bicyclists, with great paths and protected lanes nearly everywhere. But […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor News is the unexpected, something unusual. So it was truly news last week to learn that nurses from Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s locations […]

Originally published on Feb. 12, 2024. OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Stanford never comes out and openly endorses a candidate. Maybe they’re worried about losing their tax exempt […]

Editorials in the Daily Post represent the opinion of the newspaper’s management and in no way reflect the views of the reporting staff. Of the 11 candidates in the March […]

Los Altos City Council made the right decision by rejecting a request by Councilwoman Lynette Lee Eng to have the city pay $3,000 for a trip she would take to […]

By Dave Price Daily Post Editor Politicians and the media are scratching their heads, wondering why people are fleeing California. The cost of living is one big factor. Property taxes […]

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor Palo Alto City Manager Ed Shikada has locked down City Hall and members of the public can’t visit most parts of the building […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor City officials hate it when you bring up their surpluses. When voters hear that Redwood City, for instance, banked a $58 million surplus, they […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor High rents and the ability to find an apartment. Over the years, those seem to be the two problems renters have encountered. So […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Onetta Harris, who died in 1982 at age 57, was a volunteer and activist who ran a teen program that kept youth away […]

This was originally published March 13, 2023, in the Daily Post. BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I’ve received a couple of emails asking me to write an editorial against […]

OPINION Sept. 25, 2023 BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Former Peninsula Congresswoman Jackie Speier has made it clear that she’s the kingpin of San Mateo County politics. But at […]

Sept. 11, 2023 BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s always a good idea to turn off your phone at church. Not just for the obvious reason — you don’t […]

Aug. 7, 2023 OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor You’ve got to wonder who fell asleep at Stanford and didn’t move the university the Big 10 or the Big […]

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The announcement that the Bay Area may vote on a $10 billion to $20 billion housing bond measure next year left me with […]

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s a coin flip as to whether the state Fair Political Practices Commission will exempt Palo Alto Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims from the law that […]

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor In 2019, the Mountain View Whisman School Board decided to name an elementary school after local Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. Mountain […]