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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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Absurdly long waits for doctors' appointments are an escalating health care problem
Apr 19, 2022 2:48 pm
Comments: 54 | Views: 29,413
I don’t know whether I should laugh out loud as I think about the iabsurdly long waits we now encounter in getting a doctor’s appointment -- or bury my head... More
Apr 19, 2022 2:48 pm
Comments: 54 | Views: 29,413
I don’t know whether I should laugh out loud as I think about the iabsurdly long waits we now encounter in getting a doctor’s appointment -- or bury my head... More
Question today: What will be our new normal?
Jul 14, 2020 1:04 pm
Comments: 22 | Views: 28,042
Normal is gone. Our yesterdays will not be our tomorrows. Our current life styles are dramatically changing, and may never return.
Thank you COVID-19.
But... More
Jul 14, 2020 1:04 pm
Comments: 22 | Views: 28,042
Normal is gone. Our yesterdays will not be our tomorrows. Our current life styles are dramatically changing, and may never return.
Thank you COVID-19.
But... More
I am a covid coward – and also angry at anti-vaxxers
Jul 27, 2021 12:32 pm
Comments: 65 | Views: 27,202
The reason I obtained my covid shot the second day it was locally available was because I am a coward. I don’t want to suffer through the corona virus --a... More
Jul 27, 2021 12:32 pm
Comments: 65 | Views: 27,202
The reason I obtained my covid shot the second day it was locally available was because I am a coward. I don’t want to suffer through the corona virus --a... More
Are we losing our common sense?
Apr 20, 2020 1:57 pm
Comments: 60 | Views: 26,154
In our collective concern about coronavirus, some decisions are being made that defy common sense.
Our roads are emptier the past couple of weeks, since everyone... More
Apr 20, 2020 1:57 pm
Comments: 60 | Views: 26,154
In our collective concern about coronavirus, some decisions are being made that defy common sense.
Our roads are emptier the past couple of weeks, since everyone... More
What ever happened to honesty in our country?
Mar 9, 2020 5:16 pm
Comments: 52 | Views: 25,070
Whatever happened to honesty in America. Is lying – or relying on so-called “alternative facts” becoming more acceptable? Why?
The honesty issue... More
Mar 9, 2020 5:16 pm
Comments: 52 | Views: 25,070
Whatever happened to honesty in America. Is lying – or relying on so-called “alternative facts” becoming more acceptable? Why?
The honesty issue... More
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