And why the need for a Necessity Defense Vehicle Habitation Legal Fund? By some estimates there are now 1.1 million Californians who find themselves unemployed or underemployed. As it stands, over 613,000 Californians have lost all unemployment benefits and it may in fact be years before we see the light of day on any...
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Perhaps one of the most difficult tasks in evaluating employee’s performance is during the evaluation conference.  The citizens of Palo Alto on July 20th, 2011 at 6:00 pm will be give the rare opportunity to provide input on Mr. Keene’s overall performance and areas where the community feel he should improve upon. I met...
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The story which follows was original published back in September of last year and since then not much has changed following Dennis Burns appointment as our new police chief in Palo Alto. It would seem the pervasive sickness and psychosis of racial profiling among the rank and file of the PAPD, it’s police chief...
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Maybe we could start out with one of our civic leaders?  Don’t let the smiles fool you.  They get mad when I call for any comments to the press….In fact they don’t call back at all.  Op’s!! With the exception of Palo Alto City Council Member Greg Schmid. Leave us your personal pet peeve’s in...
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PRO: There is political will to build it. The votes from both AB 3034 and Proposition 1A confirmed that people in California really do want this rail. I wrote an article a while back that basically asked for people to consider voting “no” on 1A based on several factors, but none of them rejected...
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I’m a little bit confused and dismayed by this statement, “News you can’t get on the internet”.  It’s where just about everybody receives and disseminates news these days.  And most all newspapers have gone on-line for national and international news. Governments have been shaped by the awesome power of the internet.  One only needs...
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Palo Alto City Council must be yolking in the midst of an $8 million fiscal crisis to even think about building a new police building. Perhaps their reasoning or logic is similar to the stock market trends to buy low and build high. Some Municipalities a across California are teetering on the verge of...
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