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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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Sure, the traffic mess in town is a complicated problem, but I want a solution
Dec 10, 2019 2:19 pm
Comments: 58 | Views: 16,165
Wow! Palo Alto’s new Office of Transportation will have 15.5 employees to solve all our traffic problems in our city – that’s a lot of people to... More
Dec 10, 2019 2:19 pm
Comments: 58 | Views: 16,165
Wow! Palo Alto’s new Office of Transportation will have 15.5 employees to solve all our traffic problems in our city – that’s a lot of people to... More
Do city officials ever consider giving taxpayers a break?
Dec 2, 2019 4:48 pm
Comments: 18 | Views: 13,149
Advice to new government officials: Spend! And then, get more money from taxpayers! Get it again! And again
Keep on asking!
Fellow taxpayers, I think we are... More
Dec 2, 2019 4:48 pm
Comments: 18 | Views: 13,149
Advice to new government officials: Spend! And then, get more money from taxpayers! Get it again! And again
Keep on asking!
Fellow taxpayers, I think we are... More
No person is above the law, including police officers.
Nov 25, 2019 3:54 pm
Comments: 26 | Views: 21,904
No man is above the law.
We’ve heard that phrase repeatedly in recent weeks applied to Pres. Donald Trump as the Congressional House hearings on his impeachment... More
Nov 25, 2019 3:54 pm
Comments: 26 | Views: 21,904
No man is above the law.
We’ve heard that phrase repeatedly in recent weeks applied to Pres. Donald Trump as the Congressional House hearings on his impeachment... More
A Voter Warning from a Wise Friend
Nov 18, 2019 4:37 pm
Comments: 25 | Views: 13,351
“Do not be a single-issue voter,” a wise friend once told me. “Elections are too important to waste your vote just because you may agree with a candidate on... More
Nov 18, 2019 4:37 pm
Comments: 25 | Views: 13,351
“Do not be a single-issue voter,” a wise friend once told me. “Elections are too important to waste your vote just because you may agree with a candidate on... More
Why don’t city officials love my car?
Oct 29, 2019 5:39 pm
Comments: 68 | Views: 15,483
I love my little hybrid gas-sipping silver car, but it’s unrequited love. City officials don’t adore my car the same way I do. They’d prefer to see me walk... More
Oct 29, 2019 5:39 pm
Comments: 68 | Views: 15,483
I love my little hybrid gas-sipping silver car, but it’s unrequited love. City officials don’t adore my car the same way I do. They’d prefer to see me walk... More
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