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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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Palo Alto has an escalating transparency problem -- the police have shut their doors
Apr 6, 2021 3:06 pm
Comments: 8 | Views: 11,600
On Monday, April 5, the police chief of Minneapolis, Medaria Arradondo, was testifying at the George Floyd trial about his professional view that defendant Derek... More
Apr 6, 2021 3:06 pm
Comments: 8 | Views: 11,600
On Monday, April 5, the police chief of Minneapolis, Medaria Arradondo, was testifying at the George Floyd trial about his professional view that defendant Derek... More
The Power Outage: From a Lemon to Lemonade
Mar 29, 2021 1:55 pm
Comments: 16 | Views: 14,374
At 5 p.m. on Saturday, my power went out, along with 7,000 other Palo Alto residents. I think for all of us on the Peninsula, power outages occasionally occur, so... More
Mar 29, 2021 1:55 pm
Comments: 16 | Views: 14,374
At 5 p.m. on Saturday, my power went out, along with 7,000 other Palo Alto residents. I think for all of us on the Peninsula, power outages occasionally occur, so... 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
What I Saw on Mulberry Street – and other cultural revisions
Mar 9, 2021 2:36 pm
Comments: 72 | Views: 22,550
Writing about racism in our society today is always a delicate – and sometimes a dicey -- matter. Some people, it seems, are rushing to declare a book as “racist”... More
Mar 9, 2021 2:36 pm
Comments: 72 | Views: 22,550
Writing about racism in our society today is always a delicate – and sometimes a dicey -- matter. Some people, it seems, are rushing to declare a book as “racist”... More
Whoof! Our problems have all disappeared
Mar 2, 2021 4:31 pm
Comments: 13 | Views: 12,950
We have no more "problems." They are now all gone. Instead, we only have “challenges.”
Yes, “New Speak,” as George Orwell once phrased it in “1984,”... More
Mar 2, 2021 4:31 pm
Comments: 13 | Views: 12,950
We have no more "problems." They are now all gone. Instead, we only have “challenges.”
Yes, “New Speak,” as George Orwell once phrased it in “1984,”... More
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