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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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Analysis/paralysis: The infamous ‘Palo Alto Process’ must go
Sep 24, 2023 2:19 pm
Comments: 29 | Views: 10,214
I’m Palo Alto Processed out. That long-standing famous, and for some, infamous process, must come to a close. Projects coming before the Palo Alto City Council... More
Sep 24, 2023 2:19 pm
Comments: 29 | Views: 10,214
I’m Palo Alto Processed out. That long-standing famous, and for some, infamous process, must come to a close. Projects coming before the Palo Alto City Council... More
Don’t keep information from the public
Apr 20, 2021 12:08 pm
Comments: 13 | Views: 10,162
We have a city hall and police department transparency problem in Palo Alto that seems to be quietly but quickly expanding.
That’s because: City Manager... More
Apr 20, 2021 12:08 pm
Comments: 13 | Views: 10,162
We have a city hall and police department transparency problem in Palo Alto that seems to be quietly but quickly expanding.
That’s because: City Manager... More
Buying police scanners should not be an easy decision -- privacy rights are an issue
Oct 26, 2022 9:33 am
Comments: 76 | Views: 10,120
The Palo Alto Police Department wants the city to spend thousands of dollars each year, for an indefinite period, to purchase an unspecified number (10, 20, or?)... More
Oct 26, 2022 9:33 am
Comments: 76 | Views: 10,120
The Palo Alto Police Department wants the city to spend thousands of dollars each year, for an indefinite period, to purchase an unspecified number (10, 20, or?)... More
Our politics – and our elections – are running amok
Nov 1, 2022 4:38 pm
Comments: 33 | Views: 9,792
What is happening to the people in our country? Why are the partisan fights and arguments escalating? Why is the far right so fiercely fighting their self-defined... More
Nov 1, 2022 4:38 pm
Comments: 33 | Views: 9,792
What is happening to the people in our country? Why are the partisan fights and arguments escalating? Why is the far right so fiercely fighting their self-defined... More
Let’s play a simple(?) game
“Morality v. Reality
Oct 13, 2022 2:22 pm
Comments: 33 | Views: 9,758
Setting: your living room:
Question: How flexible are you in your political thinking?
I’d like you to play a game today – first, alone, then... More
Oct 13, 2022 2:22 pm
Comments: 33 | Views: 9,758
Setting: your living room:
Question: How flexible are you in your political thinking?
I’d like you to play a game today – first, alone, then... More
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