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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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Will winter outdoor restaurants work?
Nov 13, 2021 4:16 pm
Comments: 20 | Views: 13,692
Will the restaurants with their outdoor eating sections survive during the winter? Will California Avenue, the city's second downtown, continue to have the street... More
Nov 13, 2021 4:16 pm
Comments: 20 | Views: 13,692
Will the restaurants with their outdoor eating sections survive during the winter? Will California Avenue, the city's second downtown, continue to have the street... More
Can cities handle our traffic mess? I doubt it!
Jul 9, 2019 4:04 pm
Comments: 18 | Views: 13,692
Can Palo Alto and other Peninsula cities ever find a way to diminish the terrible traffic congestion problems we all are experiencing, particularly during commute... More
Jul 9, 2019 4:04 pm
Comments: 18 | Views: 13,692
Can Palo Alto and other Peninsula cities ever find a way to diminish the terrible traffic congestion problems we all are experiencing, particularly during commute... More
Troubling safety issues in our fair city
Sep 10, 2019 12:10 pm
Comments: 18 | Views: 13,677
Palo Alto has to deal with certain safety issues. Specifically:
1) ==B Where do we go for shelter if there’s a big emergency on our streets – or in the entire... More
Sep 10, 2019 12:10 pm
Comments: 18 | Views: 13,677
Palo Alto has to deal with certain safety issues. Specifically:
1) ==B Where do we go for shelter if there’s a big emergency on our streets – or in the entire... More
Registering businesses is a flop in Palo Alto
Sep 6, 2018 3:25 pm
Comments: 11 | Views: 13,577
For years, the Palo Alto City Council has tried over and over again to either license or register all businesses in town for a variety of somewhat specious reasons.... More
Sep 6, 2018 3:25 pm
Comments: 11 | Views: 13,577
For years, the Palo Alto City Council has tried over and over again to either license or register all businesses in town for a variety of somewhat specious reasons.... More
A lot can happen in one year — or — it isn’t what it used to be
Jan 27, 2021 1:26 pm
Comments: 2 | Views: 13,560
I am amazed at how our lives have changed around the world because of one stupid virus, that keeps on morphing away so that it becomes more and more contagious.
... More
Jan 27, 2021 1:26 pm
Comments: 2 | Views: 13,560
I am amazed at how our lives have changed around the world because of one stupid virus, that keeps on morphing away so that it becomes more and more contagious.
... More
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