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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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Politicians Are Still Politicians: The Growth Debate Reversals
Jul 31, 2018 4:17 pm
Comments: 11 | Views: 12,648
It was a most unusual Palo Alto City Council meeting Monday, July 30. It was politics at its worst – or for some of the council members, perhaps politics at... More
Jul 31, 2018 4:17 pm
Comments: 11 | Views: 12,648
It was a most unusual Palo Alto City Council meeting Monday, July 30. It was politics at its worst – or for some of the council members, perhaps politics at... More
Do Palo Alto city officials ever, ever have enough money?
May 23, 2022 1:44 pm
Comments: 65 | Views: 12,601
Palo Alto has nearly a $1 billion (that’s a “B”) budget scheduled for this coming 2022-2023 fiscal year. That in itself is amazing for a town with a 62,000-plus... More
May 23, 2022 1:44 pm
Comments: 65 | Views: 12,601
Palo Alto has nearly a $1 billion (that’s a “B”) budget scheduled for this coming 2022-2023 fiscal year. That in itself is amazing for a town with a 62,000-plus... More
Seven, not five, council members need to decide this major issue
Apr 30, 2019 4:15 pm
Comments: 17 | Views: 12,501
We need a seven, not a five-member Palo Alto City Council to decide on what the city should soon do about grade separations at the four traffic crossings over Caltrain... More
Apr 30, 2019 4:15 pm
Comments: 17 | Views: 12,501
We need a seven, not a five-member Palo Alto City Council to decide on what the city should soon do about grade separations at the four traffic crossings over Caltrain... More
Why does it take so long to hire an auditor?
Aug 20, 2019 5:39 pm
Comments: 2 | Views: 12,383
Public perception of how a city is handling a problem can be almost as important as how the city really is solving the problem. And the Palo Alto City Council now... More
Aug 20, 2019 5:39 pm
Comments: 2 | Views: 12,383
Public perception of how a city is handling a problem can be almost as important as how the city really is solving the problem. And the Palo Alto City Council now... More
Memo to PA Police Chief Jonsen:
What are you hiding from us? And why?
May 4, 2021 11:38 am
Comments: 28 | Views: 12,332
TO: Robert Jonsen, Chief of Police, Palo Alto
FROM: Diana Diamond, Palo Alto resident
TOPIC: Keeping residents in the dark about police activities
Chief,... More
May 4, 2021 11:38 am
Comments: 28 | Views: 12,332
TO: Robert Jonsen, Chief of Police, Palo Alto
FROM: Diana Diamond, Palo Alto resident
TOPIC: Keeping residents in the dark about police activities
Chief,... More
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