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On Deadline: For Palo Alto school officials, transparency is as transparency doesPalo Alto school officials right now are wrestling with the question of what constitutes "transparency" -- including whether a series of private memos between the...
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson on Jun. 7, 2012Last comment by Wayne Martin, on Jun 9, 2012 at 7:43 am | 9 comments | 4195 Views
INVEST & INNOVATE
Tough Choices for WhomCity councils in Palo Alto and across the state are beginning to face yet another tough budget year with revenues recovering, but slowly, and retirement costs increasing...
Original post made by Steve Levy on Jan. 11, 2012Last comment by Jeff, on Jan 15, 2012 at 3:23 pm | 30 comments | 4194 Views
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California's Budget Deficit and DebtFirst a couple of numbers. After the spending reductions adopted in March and the additional income tax revenue that was reported in April, California now faces...
Original post made by Steve Levy on May. 18, 2011Last comment by Perspective, on May 30, 2011 at 7:41 am | 38 comments | 4187 Views
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Ad Libs: Lend me a tenorThere was a great story this week in the Vancouver Sun about hapless singers from a Canadian choir standing out on a freezing bridge in their tuxes, trying to recruit...
Original post made by Rebecca Wallace on Mar. 30, 2009Last comment by Rebecca Wallace, on Apr 3, 2009 at 2:18 pm | 3 comments | 4172 Views
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On Deadline: Could a quake/tsunami hit Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park? You betIn the shadow of the double-whammy disaster in Japan (assuming nuclear meltdown doesn't make it a triple) the inevitable question is: Can it happen here? Well,...
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson on Mar. 18, 2011Last comment by Waves, on Mar 24, 2011 at 7:20 pm | 10 comments | 4164 Views
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Ad Libs: Summer in the studioAn intriguing note in the Foothill College newsletter about music instructor Paul Davies. As if teaching today's sprightly youths about music theory, composition...
Original post made by Rebecca Wallace on Aug. 12, 2010There are no comments yet. 4141 Views
A PRAGMATIST'S TAKE
Plethora of propaganda provides media literacy lessons"If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do, you are misinformed." (^
Original post made by Douglas Moran on Nov. 12, 2020Last comment by Douglas Moran, on Nov 27, 2020 at 1:11 am | 10 comments | 4134 Views
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'World Press Freedom Day' needs courageous journalism, at home and abroadThursday, May 3, was designated as "World Press Freedom Day" today (April 30) by the California Legislature, echoing a 1993 action by the United Nations. But...
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson on Apr. 30, 2012Last comment by svatoid, on May 11, 2012 at 5:36 pm | 4 comments | 4109 Views
TODDLING THROUGH THE SILICON VALLEY
What's Missing This Holiday Season?When our son told me that a friend of his was reading “The Missing Piece," I quickly put it on hold at our local library. Our daughter is learning how to read...
Original post made by Cheryl Bac on Dec. 11, 2020There are no comments yet. 4106 Views
INVEST & INNOVATE
Toll Lanes StartA portion of southbound 680 will allow single occupancy cars to use the carpool lane for a fee starting on September 20th. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16104723 ...
Original post made by Steve Levy on Sep. 19, 2010Last comment by Walter_E_Wallis, on Sep 21, 2010 at 4:11 pm | 8 comments | 4098 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Burning just one "old style" light bulb can cost $150 or more per yearI last wrote about LED bulbs three years ago, when I was urging people...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Nov. 26, 2023Last comment by staying home, on Dec 1, 2023 at 1:00 pm | 12 comments | 4076 Views
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Debt debate delusions: An economist shakes his head at budget messI have lived in Palo Alto for nearly 50 years studying economics and working as an economist. I have lived here through the recession after the Vietnam War ended,...
Original post made by Steve Levy on Aug. 15, 2011Last comment by regarding NA economy, on Aug 29, 2011 at 2:06 pm | 40 comments | 3957 Views
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Ad Libs: 'Art without inhibitions'To find the new home of Art For Well Beings, you have to wander a bit. The little art center is, as director Judy Gittelsohn says, "tucked in behind" a cluster of...
Original post made by Rebecca Wallace on Jul. 24, 2009Last comment by Cynthia Handy, on Oct 13, 2009 at 5:23 pm | 1 comment | 3904 Views
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On Deadline: Global Community disappears from Palo AltoA major component of the Palo Alto area's history for more than a half century came to an end on New Year's Eve when the Foundation for Global Community officially...
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson on Feb. 26, 2011Last comment by John, on Mar 4, 2011 at 6:26 pm | 5 comments | 3892 Views
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Ad Libs: Where's our downtown theater festival?You can't complain about an evening of Balkan-Yiddish-gospel-postmodern music, really. World Music Day sounds pretty cool (except that you can't call it WMD without...
Original post made by Rebecca Wallace on Jun. 12, 2009There are no comments yet. 3882 Views
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Ad Libs: Powerful profilesDoug Fort fell into the gang life at age 13, after, he says, "crack came into our community." Today he works in violence prevention. His is one of five stories...
Original post made by Rebecca Wallace on Oct. 21, 2010Last comment by Walter_E_Wallis, on Oct 22, 2010 at 4:28 am | 1 comment | 3873 Views
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On Deadline blog: Will cities get a voice in high-speed-rail debate? Or just have to keep shouting?The long-awaited final report giving a "new vision" for the proposed high-speed-rail system for California will become public within the next week or two, unless...
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson on Mar. 20, 2012Last comment by Evan, on Mar 27, 2012 at 11:36 pm | 7 comments | 3862 Views
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On Deadline blog: Major high-speed rail hearing Tuesday night -- who will come?A major state Senate public hearing has been scheduled next Tuesday evening to hear about possible new directions for high-speed rail in California -- directions...
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson on Mar. 9, 2012Last comment by common sense, on Mar 11, 2012 at 8:06 am | 3 comments | 3852 Views
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Dr. Walter Bortz -- health care visionary or a Dr. Quixote?On a spring day in early 1982, I bumped into Dr. Walter M. Bortz, II, a longtime Palo Alto area geriatrician, outside the former Palo Alto Medical Foundation/Clinic...
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson on Feb. 11, 2011Last comment by More choice, not less., on Feb 14, 2011 at 11:15 am | 5 comments | 3832 Views
SENIOR FOCUS
Speak to Dr Katz without getting up at 4am in the morningAs a followup to a recent post about the Katz's Corner radio call-in show out of NYC (very gratified to see that it was of interest to nearly 20,000 readers),...
Original post made by Max Greenberg on Oct. 27, 2016There are no comments yet. 3830 Views
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