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County is cooking up yet another sales tax increase

December 13, 2017 12:01 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Could the tax-raisers give the rest of us a break? The San Mateo County Supervisors are moving ahead with plans to put a […]

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Wrong verdict in the Kate Steinle case

December 4, 2017 11:45 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Despite what you may have read or seen elsewhere, the acquittal of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate on murder charges was hardly a surprise […]

Opinion

Time to democratize public art

December 1, 2017 8:57 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor If you heard cheering Friday morning, it’s because people read our story about the Palo Alto Public Art Commission’s decision to rid the […]

Opinion

An important local sex harassment suit targets police chief

November 20, 2017 2:58 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor While sexual misconduct allegations against high-profile figures like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore have dominated the headlines, a […]

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Mark Zuckerberg’s PR stunt

November 7, 2017 12:09 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I burst out laughing when I got a press release from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative saying it is working on creating “new regional […]

Opinion

2 Stanford developments in trouble

November 7, 2017 12:07 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor You’ve got to wonder what Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the new president of Stanford University, is thinking right now. The approval of an office building […]

Opinion

Local politicians should ask themselves: Have you made people’s lives better?

October 31, 2017 6:37 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor You probably read that senators Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., announced that they wouldn’t be running next November. This is the […]

No Picture
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Proposal would take away 80% of residents’ voting rights for City Council

October 10, 2017 5:51 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Menlo Park has a problem because residents from the Belle Haven neighborhood haven’t been able to win a seat on the City Council. […]

Opinion

Opinion: Support LBGT rights or get a free trip?

October 3, 2017 11:52 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor What a conflict city council members across the Peninsula are facing. The state of California has banned travel by state employees to nine […]

Opinion

Opinion: An idea for billionaire John Arrillaga

October 3, 2017 11:50 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor You could call this a tale of two cities. Or two cities’ libraries. Menlo Park already has a nice downtown library at 800 […]

Opinion

Keep sex offenders out of our schools

September 26, 2017 11:28 am

Opinion BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor There was an important question that didn’t get much attention when outside investigators delivered their report on the Palo Alto Unified School District’s […]

Opinion

Don’t be so quick to yell “You’re fired!” — school board needs to think long-term

September 19, 2017 2:17 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I think the Palo Alto school board ought to hold off on firing Superintendent Max McGee. I realize there is a clamor in […]

Opinion

Taxpayers stuck with bill for junket

September 12, 2017 10:46 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor First thing, let’s call the trip by the Sequoia Healthcare District to San Diego by its correct name — a junket. As you […]

Opinion

Big changes coming to El Camino Real

September 12, 2017 10:40 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor In Palo Alto, 2018 will be the year of El Camino Real. City Councilwoman Lydia Kou recently rattled off a list of 11 […]

Opinion

Should a newspaper print expletives?

July 31, 2017 1:12 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor How far should a newspaper go when it comes to reporting the profanity-laden rant of Anthony Scaramucci, the incoming White House communications director? […]

Opinion

Little accountability in the San Mateo County Community College District

July 10, 2017 8:21 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s astonishing that the San Mateo County Community College District board is thinking about giving Chancellor Ron Galatolo a raise after he covered […]

East Palo Alto

Suit shines light on little-noticed EPA Sanitary District

June 12, 2017 1:06 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Stephanie Griffin, who was an accounting assistant at the East Palo Alto Sanitary District for 10 years, has performed a valuable public service […]

East Palo Alto

A surprise in East Palo Alto — city banks $18 million surplus

June 5, 2017 5:34 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I was surprised to learn that East Palo Alto banked an $18.8 million surplus in the budget year ending last June. City officials […]

Opinion

1,000 trees to fall along Caltrain line; will history repeat itself?

June 5, 2017 5:29 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Palo Altans were in an uproar in September 2009 when the city chopped down 63 mature trees along California Avenue. The view people […]

Opinion

57% parking fee hike is an outrageous overreach

May 22, 2017 5:24 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The recommendation at Palo Alto City Hall to raise downtown parking permits 56.7% to $730 a year is an outrageous overreach by people […]

Opinion

Troubling questions in Palo Alto High School sex assault case

May 15, 2017 12:45 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor I think people in Palo Alto have been shaken up by the report that a Palo Alto High School student, who was convicted […]

Opinion

DA should drop ridiculous plea deal

May 1, 2017 5:14 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The case of former CEO Abhishek Gattani at the Palo Alto Courthouse has been a real eyeopener about how Santa Clara County District […]

Opinion

Sex ed can be a touchy subject

April 24, 2017 5:09 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Mortified. That’s the best word I can summon to describe my feelings when, in sixth grade, my gym teacher had all the boys […]

Opinion

Local legislators voted for flawed gas tax hike

April 10, 2017 4:52 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor One vote. That’s all it would have taken to stop the 12-cent per gallon gas tax increase and a $25 to $175 increase […]

Opinion

San Mateo County supervisors’ priorities are backwards

April 3, 2017 4:45 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor My jaw dropped when I learned that the San Mateo County supervisors were sitting on $700 million, and planned to spend it mostly […]

Opinion

Renaming schools creates an opportunity

March 20, 2017 4:18 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The controversial decision by the Palo Alto school board to rename Terman and Jordan middle schools could result in an unexpected financial opportunity […]

Opinion

‘Fake news’ battles with reality every day

January 30, 2017 3:53 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor This phenomenon called “fake news” isn’t new at all. Journalists have been battling purveyors of phony stories for years. You haven’t heard much […]

Opinion

Why we shouldn’t rename schools

January 23, 2017 4:00 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor You may have forgotten that former President Obama opposed same-sex marriage for many years. Other well-known political figures were against it too, including […]

Opinion

When do we say the drought is over?

January 9, 2017 4:12 pm

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor One of the best things about all of this rain is that it quiets the drought mongers who love to point fingers at […]

Opinion

Judge Aaron Persky should be fired

June 6, 2016 5:32 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Judge Aaron Persky ought to be fired for sentencing former Stanford swimming star Brock Turner to six months in jail for raping a […]

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