During last nights Policy and Services Committee meeting Council members Liz Kniss, Larry Klein and city manager James Keene have resurrected the segregated south by officially recommending that the City of Palo Alto make it illegal for homeless people to possess and or own a vehicle. “Injustice fights with two weapons, force and fraud..  A common...
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I could go into great detail on how taser guns do not work as claimed by law enforcement and Taser International and actually often times exacerbate benign situations, but I will save that for another story. Before we address the effectiveness and safety of tasers we should determine if Police Chief Greg Suhr will...
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A city councilman in Utah, Mark Easton, had a beautiful view of the east mountains, until a new neighbor purchased the lot below his house and began building a new home. As it turned out, the new home was 18 inches higher than the ordinances would permit, so Mark Easton, angry that his mountain...
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The only visible different if anything from the previous design would be the color scheme from the industrial complex brown to the anaerobic digestion green.  Disappointing however was the much touted promises by city attorney Molly Stump who during her inaugural speech she assured the citizens of Palo Alto of a new webpage design...
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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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