PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG PALY Girls Volleyball Are State Champions! My son Nathan, a 2005 PALY grad, and I went to San Jose Saturday evening to watch the PALY girls volleyball team against Long Beach's "POLY" team compete for the State title i... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Dec 5, 2010 at 1:25 pm
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Make University Ave. University Plaza I just finished reading an article in Esquire magazine about initiatives in New York City to establish plazas in such parts of Manhattan as Times Square, Union Square, Madison... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Nov 25, 2010 at 1:16 pm There have been 6 comments on this topic, the most recent on Nov 30, 2010 at 11:27 am.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG HSR Get Nationwide Rejection We in the Peninsula, the Bay Area, or California are not alone in our skepticism about High Speed Rail.
I am an NPR listener and there was a feature on its Friday evening n... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Nov 12, 2010 at 7:20 pm There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on Dec 3, 2010 at 12:09 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG New Stanford Business School Complex I had occasion to go on Campus Drive at Stanford the other day, and get a glimpse of the emerging archipelego of buildings that will be the new campus of the Graduate School o... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Nov 12, 2010 at 7:43 am There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Nov 12, 2010 at 2:02 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Half Life of Stewart and Beck DC Mall Rallies I watched most of the Stewart show on the Mall, and I only saw excerpts of the Beck show. So I will not attempt to compare and contrast the two, other than to observe that St... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Oct 30, 2010 at 1:56 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Nov 1, 2010 at 12:42 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Vayan Gigantes! I write this after getting off a Skype phone call from my son who was following the SF Giants game from Korea. What a great series against the Phillies, and how excitng that ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Oct 23, 2010 at 9:16 pm There have been 7 comments on this topic, the most recent on Oct 26, 2010 at 9:22 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Rail CEO pledges transparency, accountability California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Roelef van Ark vowed this week to keep updating state legislators about the progress of the high-speed rail, even if the reports aren'... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Oct 14, 2010 at 7:00 pm There have been 10 comments on this topic, the most recent on Oct 17, 2010 at 8:09 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG John Lennon Today would have been former Beatle John Lennon’s 70th birthday.
He was shot and killed by someone crazy 30 years ago this December.
I grew up in the 60’s when the Beatles w... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Oct 9, 2010 at 9:11 am There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Oct 10, 2010 at 6:51 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Odd or Even Years for PA Elections? Measure S Should there continue to be the practice in Palo Alto that local issues and choices of City and School District candidates take place on odd numbered years, rather than being ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Oct 7, 2010 at 4:38 pm There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on Oct 12, 2010 at 12:26 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Tough Choice in Local Assembly Race How nice it is to have two experienced and seemingly capable people from the major parties seeking to suceed Ira Ruskin.
If I were having the proverbial beer with GOP candi... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Oct 7, 2010 at 3:48 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Oct 7, 2010 at 4:27 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Incredibly Flawed Senate and Governor Candidates I am increasingly disgusted with the character of candidates for State office in California, to whit:
I really have no clue what Senator Barbara Boxer has to show for all h... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Sep 30, 2010 at 6:15 pm There have been 88 comments on this topic, the most recent on Oct 11, 2010 at 3:05 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Snake! I walked out of my office late Thursday morning to go to the copying machine and duplicate some paperwork. Lying (or is it laying?) in my path was a juvenile Garter snake mak... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Sep 24, 2010 at 4:23 pm There have been 12 comments on this topic, the most recent on Oct 2, 2010 at 10:29 am.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Supporting Small Businesses in the US? Am I the only one who is totally confused about what it takes and who supports at a policy level initiatives to support the success of small businesses in this country?
“W”... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Sep 13, 2010 at 8:46 am There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Sep 18, 2010 at 12:10 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Back to College My daughter Adrienne, a 2008 PALY grad, shipped off on Jet Blue Saturday night for her junior year at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Her summer back in Palo Alto included s... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Sep 5, 2010 at 1:18 am There have been 12 comments on this topic, the most recent on Sep 7, 2010 at 7:32 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Carly Won't Get Votes From HP'ers I had a fun discussion with an acquaintance last weekend. She once worked at HP, and still does some consulting for the company. Interestingly, she also has consulted at Meg... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Sep 2, 2010 at 12:58 pm There have been 22 comments on this topic, the most recent on Sep 7, 2010 at 8:46 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Glenn Beck's DC Rally Many pundits have and will weigh in on this event.
What I find disingenuous about it is that it took place on the same day of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
Beck made ex... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Aug 28, 2010 at 1:47 pm There have been 37 comments on this topic, the most recent on Sep 1, 2010 at 1:40 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Adios Midtown ARCO Gas Station I drove along Middlefield today and saw that the long dormant ARCO gas station was being razed.
It has been an eyesore for years, so I view this as progress. What I don't ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Aug 25, 2010 at 4:25 pm There have been 6 comments on this topic, the most recent on Aug 26, 2010 at 11:34 am.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Local Book Store Demises As nice as Borders on University and Kepler's in Menlo Park are for a book reader and buyer, I suspect neither operation nor others elsewhere are long for this world.
Keple... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Aug 19, 2010 at 10:49 am There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 30, 2012 at 11:53 am.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Put CA High Speed Rail to Death I think it is too late, unfornately, for a ballot measure to be part of this November's election, but we need ASAP need to put this High Speed Rail in California to sleep.
... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Aug 13, 2010 at 3:55 pm There have been 7 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jan 28, 2013 at 12:48 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Stanford Sierra Camp I am feeling a bit melancholy this week, and it is because I am not able to experience this summer a sublime vacation that I did for more than a dozen years.
I refer to Sta... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Aug 11, 2010 at 9:16 am There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Aug 13, 2010 at 5:44 am.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Afghanistan, Taliban, Al Qaeda If I were sitting in that egg shaped office along PA Avenue, I think I would be telling our folks that we are going to shut down the current effort after the November election... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Aug 1, 2010 at 10:06 am There have been 33 comments on this topic, the most recent on Aug 13, 2010 at 5:37 am.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG High Speed Rail Disconnects Off goes a "marketing team" from the HSR Authority to Washington, DC to "spin" a survey that shows potential patrons of a North/South artery of HSR favor it. While the formul... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Jul 29, 2010 at 6:00 pm There have been 11 comments on this topic, the most recent on Aug 5, 2010 at 9:55 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG How About A Mosque In Palo Alto? I am totally repulsed by the objections to the buidling of mosques in varioous places around the United States being reported recently in the national press.
There are nume... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Jul 22, 2010 at 2:26 pm There have been 213 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jun 20, 2012 at 2:34 pm.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Sarah Palin at CSU Stanlislaus I find Ms. Palin to be cut out of the same cloth of Huey Long, George Wallace, and other such populists who presently call themselves "Tea Partiers." Which means I do not hol... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Jul 16, 2010 at 7:45 pm There have been 52 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 27, 2010 at 10:47 am.
PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG Summer Camps-and the Living is Easy, Breezy, Queasy?
I would like to have a community conversation about the summer camp options we have for our kids in Palo Alto. I have no pre-conceived notions about the options families ha... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Jul 6, 2010 at 10:56 am