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About this blog: So much is right — and wrong — about what is happening in Palo Alto. In this blog I want to discuss all that with you. I know many residents care about this town, and I want to explore our collective interests to help ... (More)
About this blog: So much is right — and wrong — about what is happening in Palo Alto. In this blog I want to discuss all that with you. I know many residents care about this town, and I want to explore our collective interests to help do the right thing. My goal with this blog is to help the public better understand what really is happening, and more important, how residents living here may be affected by these local decisions. I've been a journalist most of my life, first as a reporter and then managing editor of a Chicago newspaper, followed by a wonderful year at Stanford as a recipient of Knight Journalism Fellowship. I then went to the San Jose Mercury as an editorial writer and columnist. I also worked for the State Bar of California as the first editor in chief of "California Lawyer" magazine, and then spent a decade at Stanford involved in public issues affecting the university. In the late 1990s, I sequentially wrote columns for all three local newspapers here in Palo Alto. Born in a small community on Long Island, I attended Middlebury College, graduated from the University of Michigan, got married, had four boys in four years, and then started working. I moved to Palo Alto in 1979, and have been involved in the community on several nonprofit boards. (Hide)
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Environmentalists will soon be fighting housing advocates over what to do with the SF Bay locally
Mar 18, 2019 4:49 pm
Comments: 26 | Views: 14,137
A recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision has produced a challenge for liberal residents in the area – do you want to turn a whopping 1,400... More
Mar 18, 2019 4:49 pm
Comments: 26 | Views: 14,137
A recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision has produced a challenge for liberal residents in the area – do you want to turn a whopping 1,400... More
2021: The time to think outside the box
Dec 28, 2020 3:41 pm
Comments: 3 | Views: 13,988
Begone 2020. You were not a good year. Welcome 2021. You will have a busy year, because we have a lot of challenges for you!
2021 is a very special time, because... More
Dec 28, 2020 3:41 pm
Comments: 3 | Views: 13,988
Begone 2020. You were not a good year. Welcome 2021. You will have a busy year, because we have a lot of challenges for you!
2021 is a very special time, because... More
Bay Area public transit is in trouble: Can our failing systems be saved?
Jan 11, 2022 2:12 pm
Comments: 35 | Views: 13,908
Let us imagine that you have just been appointed the chief public transit guru in the Bay Area. You achieved this very important post because the transit committee... More
Jan 11, 2022 2:12 pm
Comments: 35 | Views: 13,908
Let us imagine that you have just been appointed the chief public transit guru in the Bay Area. You achieved this very important post because the transit committee... More
The coronavirus vaccine: So we had the capability of sending a man to the moon . . .
Mar 20, 2021 4:00 pm
Comments: 17 | Views: 13,903
The incompetency in this country to produce and provide enough COVID-19 vaccines to Americans is most disturbing. As the age-old adage goes, if America can send... More
Mar 20, 2021 4:00 pm
Comments: 17 | Views: 13,903
The incompetency in this country to produce and provide enough COVID-19 vaccines to Americans is most disturbing. As the age-old adage goes, if America can send... More
Just What Is Sexual Harassment Today?
Aug 5, 2021 2:45 pm
Comments: 37 | Views: 13,902
I don’t know what our society thinks sexual harassment is these days. Our standards seem to change over time, and what was “permissible,” say 20... More
Aug 5, 2021 2:45 pm
Comments: 37 | Views: 13,902
I don’t know what our society thinks sexual harassment is these days. Our standards seem to change over time, and what was “permissible,” say 20... More
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