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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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Can you read cursive? Do you know why democratic values are important?
Apr 12, 2022 1:35 pm
Comments: 77 | Views: 14,393
“I don’t read cursive,” the CVS store clerk said to me when I handed my friend’s somewhat undecipherable shopping list over, asking her what she thought... More
Apr 12, 2022 1:35 pm
Comments: 77 | Views: 14,393
“I don’t read cursive,” the CVS store clerk said to me when I handed my friend’s somewhat undecipherable shopping list over, asking her what she thought... More
Keeping things from the public trumps transparency in town
Apr 5, 2022 3:47 pm
Comments: 72 | Views: 13,288
I watched the Palo Alto City Council meeting to the bitter end (12:30 a.m.) of Monday night’s meeting, and, indeed, it was a bitter ending for me, a champion... More
Apr 5, 2022 3:47 pm
Comments: 72 | Views: 13,288
I watched the Palo Alto City Council meeting to the bitter end (12:30 a.m.) of Monday night’s meeting, and, indeed, it was a bitter ending for me, a champion... More
On water, cows and police resistance
Mar 31, 2022 3:24 pm
Comments: 31 | Views: 13,869
Ninety-three percent of California is now in a severe drought. Yet Gov. Gavin Newsom has refused so far to impose mandatory use restrictions on urban and suburban... More
Mar 31, 2022 3:24 pm
Comments: 31 | Views: 13,869
Ninety-three percent of California is now in a severe drought. Yet Gov. Gavin Newsom has refused so far to impose mandatory use restrictions on urban and suburban... More
Questions for PA City Manager Ed Shikada
Mar 22, 2022 3:32 pm
Comments: 48 | Views: 13,401
I am contemplating walking through Palo Alto City Hall, clear see-through flag in hand, proclaiming, “Transparency: Now!”
Why? Because I am tired of all the... More
Mar 22, 2022 3:32 pm
Comments: 48 | Views: 13,401
I am contemplating walking through Palo Alto City Hall, clear see-through flag in hand, proclaiming, “Transparency: Now!”
Why? Because I am tired of all the... More
Stop gouging us, oil companies!
Mar 17, 2022 12:06 pm
Comments: 31 | Views: 13,030
Since the 1970s, I have been suspicious of the constant escalating gas pump prices, especially the leaps we are now seeing because of the oil companies’ fears... More
Mar 17, 2022 12:06 pm
Comments: 31 | Views: 13,030
Since the 1970s, I have been suspicious of the constant escalating gas pump prices, especially the leaps we are now seeing because of the oil companies’ fears... More
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