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Opinion: Let the voters decide on a natural gas ban

August 31, 2021 12:30 am

OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The climate change debate is hitting home, literally. Menlo Park City Council on Tuesday (Aug. 31) will discuss the radical idea of prohibiting […]

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Opinion: Don’t kick the little guys when they’re down

August 23, 2021 11:47 pm

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 […]

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Guest opinion: Here’s how City Council could revive downtown

August 16, 2021 11:51 pm

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 […]

Apple

Opinion: Apple becoming an arm of law enforcement

August 11, 2021 5:00 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: District attorney candidate emphasizes criminal justice reform

August 11, 2021 11:25 am

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 […]

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Opinion: Why vaccine hesitant people are hesitant

July 28, 2021 2:37 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: Save on downtown parking

July 24, 2021 6:42 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: The police reform idea nobody talks about

July 2, 2021 4:04 pm

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 […]

The Palo Alto Courthouse at 270 Grant Ave. in the California Avenue district. Post file photo.
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Opinion: Palo Alto may soon lose its courthouse

June 25, 2021 12:12 am

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 […]

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Opinion: City’s parking laws raise housing costs

June 24, 2021 11:50 pm

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 […]

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Guest opinion: Juneteenth holiday is long overdue

June 20, 2021 2:30 pm

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. […]

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Opinion: If you’re ‘woke,’ this won’t be a joke — these words will make you choke

June 17, 2021 12:21 am

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 […]

Caltrain

Opinion: With the latest Caltrain fiasco, it’s time to talk about merging railroad with BART

June 9, 2021 12:00 pm

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, […]

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Opinion: Find a middle ground on housing; city attorney creates unnecessary mystery, and city examines its cybersecurity

May 30, 2021 11:16 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: 55 days later and state DOJ hasn’t complied with records request for information on police radio encryption

May 27, 2021 5:22 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: Important questions about the pandemic remain unanswered

May 7, 2021 8:01 am

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 […]

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Guest opinion: Wrong kind of budget in an emergency

April 29, 2021 11:50 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: Bad police work is costly to taxpayers

April 21, 2021 12:25 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: Why is government building EV charging stations?

April 12, 2021 12:34 pm

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 […]

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Opinion: Council tonight can make the Police Department more transparent

April 5, 2021 2:00 pm

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 […]

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