DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
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 |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
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 |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
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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Numbers are important, even (or especially) in city budgets
Please do not glaze or even gloss over the numbers. Numbers are important, even in things like city budgets, because it's our money -- our tax dollars -- that are involved in ... |
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on Aug 3, 2007 at 1:24 pm by george, a resident of the Palo Alto Hills neighborhood |
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Taking a break from city politics for really important news
"We have babies!" I told my husband when I phoned him at work two weeks ago. "It looks like there are two, and they are really tiny but also very hungry."
He didn't panic; ... |
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on Jul 6, 2007 at 11:22 am by Woody, a resident of another community |
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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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Public streets, our privacy and Palo Alto’s color
Imagine being beaten by Google.
That could be the way Artist Sam Yates feels now that Google has just released its Street View, which shows computerized pictures of practic... |
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on Jun 24, 2007 at 12:33 am by Matisse, a resident of another community |
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Have we misplaced our community priorities?
Watching the Palo Alto City Council talk last week about a proposed rebuilding and modernization of the Stanford Medical Center made me wonder if we have misplaced priorities ... |
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on Jun 7, 2007 at 5:57 am by Not so fast, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
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City makes a lot of money from the utility bills we pay
Palo Alto's utility rates will go up once again in July, after increases last year, in what will inevitably be a series of continuing increases.
What many residents don't r... |
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on Jun 1, 2007 at 3:23 pm by bruce, a resident of the University South neighborhood |
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Rules are stacked against the objectors
The rules at Palo Alto City Hall seem to be stacked against both residents and downtown businesses when it comes to objecting to increases in utility rates or objecting to for... |
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on May 29, 2007 at 9:52 pm by Cooper, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
Library costs are not adding up
Last Sunday I spoke to Palo Alto Library Director Diane Jennings to ask about the preliminary cost estimates of a new Mitchell Park Library, because the cost figures were not ... |
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on May 20, 2007 at 8:41 am by bob, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
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 |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
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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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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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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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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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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How 'sustainable' are Palo Alto's new top priorities?
Priorities, whether they be personal or those of the Palo Alto City Council, are important.
A priority list brings order out of could-be chaos and organizes what we must... |
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on Mar 14, 2007 at 8:02 am by okkobusn, a resident of Los Altos |
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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 |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
Spending $1 million - just for a 'study’ of a new police station
$1,037,490. That is the amount the Palo Alto City Council unanimously agreed to spend last Monday night for a new police building “study” on initial design, environmental revi... |
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on Feb 20, 2007 at 4:52 pm by Chris, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Let's have more creativity in town - from playgrounds to downtown
According to recent article in The New York Times about children’s playgrounds, no longer will some NYC playgrounds be a mixture of the same old versions of jungle gyms, swing... |
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on Jan 24, 2007 at 9:21 am by Bert, a resident of the Leland Manor/Garland Drive neighborhood |
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My New Year’s resolutions for the Palo Alto City Council
Admittedly, it is much easier for me as just one person to decide what the council’s priorities should be this year – rather than have nine members collectively deciding. I do... |
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on Jan 4, 2007 at 10:29 pm by Luxury, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Bah, humbug! A dearth of downtown decorations
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – except in downtown Palo Alto. Yes, there are the little white lights on University Avenue that are there all year long, but I loo... |
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on Dec 29, 2006 at 12:38 am by Another mother here, a member of the Gunn High School community |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
Are we spoiling our kids by driving them to school?
“Were we bad mothers,” my friend asked me at lunch the other day, “because we let our kids walk and bike to school?”
“Certainly not,” I replied. “None of us were driving th... |
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on Dec 2, 2006 at 4:39 pm by Pedestrian, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
DIANA DIAMOND'S BLOG
Can you be bought for a cup of coffee?
I can’t – and I would guess that you couldn’t, either. I couldn’t even be bought for a lunch.
But if a proposed new policy passes, Palo Alto City Council members will not ... |
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on Nov 24, 2006 at 9:36 pm by JJ, a resident of the Palo Alto Orchards neighborhood |
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