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Opinion: A vacancy tax won’t help downtown or Cal Ave.

September 9, 2024 7:22 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Alto’s two commercial areas, University Avenue and California Avenue, are slowly dying right in front of our eyes. They’re becoming dingy and […]

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Opinion: Google deal won’t save journalism

August 30, 2024 7:45 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Readers are the big loser in a deal that calls for Google to pay $110 million over five years to compensate newsrooms for […]

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Opinion: The 38-story elephant of Menlo Park politics

August 26, 2024 9:09 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Menlo Park City Council won’t have much of a City Council race this year because only three candidates have signed up to run […]

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Opinion: County jail has become a deadly place

August 14, 2024 6:41 am

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office is in crisis, judging from a confidential memo Sheriff Christina Corpus sent her employees on Friday.  Her […]

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Opinion: Drop the $20 billion housing bond issue

August 14, 2024 5:48 am

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor The newly created regional agency that plans to ask voters for a $20 billion housing bond issue in November made a huge error […]

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Opinion: Hiding Caltrain suicide deaths won’t solve the problem

August 8, 2024 8:33 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor It’s a sad situation that has been repeated in Palo Alto many times. A Caltrain strikes a person on the tracks. Ambulances and police […]

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Opinion: Head tax is a bad idea

August 2, 2024 10:01 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor My head snapped and I did a double take when I read the other day that Redwood City officials want to start taxing businesses […]

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Opinion: Recall of two council members is a wake-up call for other elected officials

August 2, 2024 9:47 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor Political leaders on the Peninsula got a wake-up call the other day. Voters in the San Mateo County city of Millbrae recalled two council […]

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Opinion: Lythcott-Haims should step down from City Council

July 16, 2024 10:57 am

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor Julie Lythcott-Haims should have leveled with the voters two years ago about why she left her job as a dean at Stanford following […]

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Opinion: Five questions for city council candidates

July 8, 2024 9:03 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The goal of a city council member should be to make their city better. A council member running for re-election should be able […]

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Opinion: County’s Covid ‘after-action’ report ignores key concerns

July 5, 2024 5:37 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor A year after it was due, Santa Clara County has finally released a state-required “after-action” report that analyzes how well the county government handled […]

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Opinion: Exit of undersheriff didn’t come with much warning

June 27, 2024 12:48 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor San Mateo County’s sheriff’s deputies didn’t get much advance notice that the No. 2 person in the department, Undersheriff Chris Hsiung, was leaving […]

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Opinion: Decision to put bike lanes on El Camino will hurt small businesses

June 27, 2024 12:11 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor An estimated 39% of small, independent businesses in California were forced to permanently close during the pandemic, according to research by Harvard. Those […]

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Opinion: A generous gift from an anonymous reader

June 20, 2024 6:00 pm

OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor If you work in a newsroom, you never known what’s going to arrive at the front desk or in the mail on any […]

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Opinion: Narcan isn’t hard to find

June 10, 2024 7:18 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor San Mateo County officials including Sheriff Christina Corpus have put a vending machine in the jail lobby that dispenses Narcan, the drug that […]

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Opinion: It’s not the county’s job to combat loneliness

June 10, 2024 7:12 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICEDaily Post Editor I’m puzzled why a San Mateo County supervisor is thinking about launching a $1 million program to combat loneliness. I can’t fault the motives […]

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Opinion: A police officer has many jobs

May 13, 2024 9:18 pm

BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I hate it when we run stories about police officers being sued or accused of wrongdoing. We publish those stories because you have a […]

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Opinion: Why Simitian lost the House primary

May 11, 2024 3:34 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Alto just lost its representative in Congress. San Jose, which is already represented by Zoe Lofgren, Ro Khanna and Jimmy Panetta, is […]

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Opinion: Farewell to a faithful friend

April 19, 2024 4:59 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: Bike lanes on El Camino are dangerous and would kill businesses

April 1, 2024 4:30 pm

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 […]

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