DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
Time to ban pit bulls
The deadly attack of a small Maltese dog by three pit bulls last Saturday is yet another in a seemingly unending series of maulings by pit bull terriers over the years.
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on Sep 3, 2006 at 3:53 pm by Dog Lover, a resident of another community |
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City’s pensions soar as 55-year-old Palo Alto employees retire
Last year the retirement formula at Palo Alto City Hall was changed. As a result of that change, a city employee retiring at 55 with 30 years service making $100,000 a year wi... |
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on Apr 5, 2008 at 3:54 pm by Henry, a resident of the Embarcadero Oaks/Leland neighborhood |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
Council is manipulative in combining library, police station bonds
Separate them out, please! Palo Alto residents should be able to vote on two individual ballot measures: one for improved libraries and the other for a new police station.
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on Mar 30, 2007 at 11:24 pm by Concerned citizen, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Scale down the library proposal
As the cost of renovating and redoing three of our libraries in Palo Alto keeps rising, my enthusiasm for the project keeps falling.
Once proposed as a $45... |
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on Mar 3, 2008 at 8:58 pm by Real Mike Is Right, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
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Palo Alto's new web site is user unfriendly
So I was really looking forward to the City of Palo Alto’s new web site. After months of development, after several delays (it was to be unveiled in the spring), the site was ... |
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on Sep 14, 2007 at 10:04 pm by Can\'t find, a resident of the Southgate neighborhood |
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Should we ban pit bulls in Palo Alto? Yes!
I read with horror the story this week of the Fremont mother who was repeatedly bitten by a pit bull while trying to protect her four-month old son.
The 32-year-old woman, ... |
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on Sep 9, 2007 at 5:21 pm by Andrew - Native of Palo Alto, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
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Why was Emily Harrison suspended?
It all seems very strange. Assistant City Manager Emily Harrison has been suspended from her job without pay for three weeks. Council members were notified a couple of weeks a... |
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on Apr 12, 2007 at 1:51 pm by Mike, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Election reflections
There were a couple of disturbing things about the local elections in Palo Alto.
First was the unprecedented amount of union support for two of the city council candidates ... |
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on Dec 14, 2007 at 7:55 am by MPKid, a resident of Menlo Park |
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Shop Palo Alto?
"Destination Palo Alto is an initiative of the Palo Alto City Council to encourage
visitorship to the city. The effort involves a host of partners, including Stanfo... |
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on Sep 22, 2006 at 4:15 pm by pat, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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A call for candor from the city council candidates
Everything seems in place for this fall’s city council election in Palo Alto. We have 12 candidates running for four seats, we have campaign managers and candidate web sites. ... |
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on Sep 22, 2007 at 2:49 pm by bruce, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
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PA City Council should not be politically partisan
Seven of the nine Palo Alto City Council members have this weekpublicly endorsed Sen. Barack Obama as their choice for president of the United States. Why? I thought we had n... |
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on Feb 25, 2008 at 11:09 am by Irene, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Would these be your top priorities for Palo Alto?
The Weekly ran a story that listed Palo Alto’s capital improvement priorities planned for June 2007 to June 2008.
Web Link... |
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on Apr 27, 2007 at 6:30 pm by Loma Verde Neighbor, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
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Going too green too fast?
Is Palo Alto suddenly going too green? Maybe. And in its haste this past week to achieve a nearly “Zero Waste” goal for the city by 2021, some council members are not even ask... |
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on Sep 25, 2007 at 1:45 pm by Walter\'s Nemesis, a resident of the Southgate neighborhood |
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Making Palo Alto attractive to tourists
What makes a town attractive to tourists? A lot more than just declaring our city a tourist town.
City council members want Palo Alto to become a tourist destination. But o... |
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on Oct 23, 2007 at 12:37 am by PA booster, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Discourse -- or diatribe on blog sites?
Whatever happened to reasoned discourse?
A couple of months ago, I was invited to write a blog for the Palo Alto Weekly. I agreed, and thought it would be fun.
And four ... |
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on Mar 14, 2007 at 2:29 pm by Carol, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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City employees aren't guaranteed work for life!
"Guaranteed work for life." That sign could be hung on the front doors of Palo Alto's City Hall, courtesy of some of our council members.
Yes, there seems to be a mind-se... |
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on Mar 24, 2007 at 3:14 pm by Mike, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
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No-spanking is not for state to decide
The biggest problem that I have with State Assemblywoman Sally Lieber’s (D-Mountain View) proposal to ban parents from spanking a child under the age of 3 is that it is more g... |
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on Feb 20, 2007 at 7:24 pm by Ann, a resident of Menlo Park |
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The Harrison report: it's good that it is public
First of all, the city acted correctly in releasing the disciplinary report about Assistant City Manager Emily Harrison to the public. According to two First Amendment lawyers... |
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on Apr 27, 2007 at 3:48 pm by Alexander, a resident of another community |
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More honesty please, at city hall
Sometimes a small incident – like the redesign of the city’s website – can serve as the symbolic “straw” in our community. Many residents are complaining loudly that the newly... |
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on Sep 12, 2007 at 12:25 am by resident who\'s had enough, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
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Should we 'give' our utility rate $$s to the city? Is it legal?
It's happening again. Our utility rates in Palo Alto will be going up nearly 10 percent. They went up last year, the year before and the year before that.
The rate increase... |
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on Aug 25, 2009 at 12:56 pm by Timothy Gray, a resident of the Charleston Meadows neighborhood |
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Plodding through the "Palo Alto Process"
The proposed expansion of the Stanford Medical Center is beginning to get discussed in Palo Alto – and I do mean “beginning to.” There already have been a couple of community ... |
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on Jul 4, 2007 at 8:01 pm by Annie, a resident of the University South neighborhood |
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My nomination for the worst road in Palo Alto
Mayor Larry Klein said the other day that the city has built no new facilities for more than 30 years, other than some restrooms at Greer Park. That’s amazing, especially when... |
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on Apr 23, 2009 at 11:35 am by Sarah, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Group think among the political
Sometimes I wonder if ordinary residents who get elected to public office suddenly become part of an “Elected Officials” club and thus feel compelled to support each other.
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on Aug 8, 2010 at 3:56 pm by Blame ourselves, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood |
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In search of a restroom
I spent Saturday afternoon walking around downtown Palo Alto looking for a public restroom.
Not that I was in immediate need of one, but the City Council last Monday passed... |
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on Sep 21, 2008 at 5:57 pm by Parent, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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This is no solution for the creek's problems
The day after the San Francisquito Creek flooded in 1998 in Palo Alto, I happened to call a friend the next morning on a business matter, not even knowing where he lived. “I c... |
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on Apr 25, 2008 at 4:23 pm by Tom Flynn, a resident of Mountain View |
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