ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Poor suffer, rich benefit
Poor suffer, rich benefit
Congress convinced lots of poor people to voluntarily give up some of the few things they had to make them even poorer and the rich even richer, s... |
Ted Rudow III,MA |
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on Dec 13, 2010 at 4:44 pm by Paul, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
HMO
Ted Kennedy was the sponsor of the 1973 HMO Act. HMOs did exist prior to 1973, so Kennedy didn't "create" them. What he did do was be as visible of a champion as anyone ... |
Ted Rudow III,MA |
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on Dec 6, 2010 at 2:55 pm by Perspective, a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Tax
Well, corporate income taxes in this country are one-third lower than they were in 2000—even though corporate profits are up 60 percent and corporations have almost $2 trillio... |
Ted Rudow IIII, MA |
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on Mar 10, 2011 at 6:59 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
TEDx Gunn High School Registration is Up!
TEDx Gunn High School is an independently organized event that features presentations from local figures and fellow Palo Alto Students. The purpose of this event is to bring t... |
TEDx Gunn High School |
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on May 12, 2011 at 5:47 pm by TEDx Gunn High School, a member of the Gunn High School community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Our teens deserve a safe haven...
Hi all,
The Palo Alto Family YMCA has been operating a Ventura Teen Center at the Ventura Activities Center for years, but has been a little abandoned in the last few months... |
Teen Parents |
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on Sep 28, 2009 at 10:33 am by Teen Parent, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Americans die, VA lies
In an effort to shield the Bush administration from its ongoing deception and minimize the ire of the American people, Dr. Ira Katz, head of mental health services for the Dep... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on Jun 2, 2008 at 7:06 pm by Singh Sang, a resident of Los Altos |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Israel & 911
In a recent public appearance at Bar Ilan University in Israel (reported in Haaretz Service & Reuters News), the Likud leader, Bejamin Netanyahu, boasted that terror attacks ... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on May 19, 2008 at 4:01 pm by Paul, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Iraq war - General Petraeus
Predictably, General Petraeus’s appearance before Congress offered nothing new, just more of the same rhetoric couched in muddled language which the late night comedians picke... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on Apr 28, 2008 at 1:33 pm by jr, a resident of the Professorville neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Bush seeking retroactive immunity for war crimes
The brutal treatment of prisoners is again in the public spotlight with the declassification of the 2003 torture memo.
According to British attorney Philippe Sands’s article... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on Apr 16, 2008 at 6:24 am by Walter E. Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Water fluoridation
It seems that we may be over-medicating ourselves in pursuit of nebulous goals rooted in questionable science. Local utilities have deemed it desirable to fluoridate our water... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on Feb 27, 2008 at 10:51 am by Tej Uberoi, a resident of Los Altos |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Gaza Tragedy
Despite the media’s blatant efforts to put a positive spin on the medieval blockade of Gaza, the facts speak for themselves. Since its inception, Israel has driven out the ind... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on Jan 30, 2008 at 1:58 pm by Boaz, a resident of the Greater Miranda neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Annapolis
The much touted Annapolis Middle East Peace Conference will without doubt turn out to be a complete sham designed to offer the Bush Administration an empty photo-op devoid of ... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on Dec 2, 2007 at 1:55 pm by Not Dr Ferragamo, a resident of Stanford |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Michael Mukasey
Once again, the Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee failed to fully challenge the nominee for Attorney General (AG), Michael Mukasey. Incredibly, Mukasey defended many o... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on Nov 7, 2007 at 4:26 pm by thanks for catching my own knee-jerk, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Israel's War of Terror
It is encouraging that more and more voices are piercing through the silence so pervasive in the U.S. media regarding Israel’s war of terror on the Palestinians.
In the UK,... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on Jul 3, 2007 at 4:20 pm by resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
High Crimes
The late night comedians and Jon Stewart et al are having a field day with the latest episode in the scandal ridden activities of the Bush Administration. Viewers were ‘treate... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on May 23, 2007 at 7:41 pm by John, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Somalia
America’s dirty proxy war in Somalia, which has largely been ignored by the media, has resulted in the displacement of 350,000 Somalia’s in the past three months creating a ma... |
Tej Uberoi |
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on May 1, 2007 at 6:31 pm by Draw the Line, a resident of Stanford |
PALO ALTO ISSUES
Cleaning of tennis courts cut four years ago??!!
I found out from the city that regular cleaning of tennis courts was cut from the budget four years ago. How can this be? I play frequently on Cubberley and Mitchell Park co... |
Tennis Buff |
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on Jul 14, 2008 at 7:02 pm by Paul Losch, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
SPORTS
Recreational Tennis?
I'm new in town and have been wanting to take some tennis lessons and perhaps join some group where I can play some recreational, casual tennis. I'm a beginner and mainly wan... |
Tennis? |
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on Oct 19, 2009 at 12:42 pm by Tennis?, a resident of the Adobe-Meadows neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
WAR - number 3
WAR
U.S. military officials have confirmed today the "first" American tomahawk cruise missiles have been fired on targets inside Libya from ships in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Terascale Idiocy |
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on Mar 29, 2011 at 6:39 am by The real sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
Another Person killed in Palo Alto by Caltrain -
Did you see this? What a tragic week.
Web Link
Person killed in Palo Alto by Caltrain
By Melanie Carroll
MediaNews
Articl... |
teresag |
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on Jul 6, 2007 at 7:27 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
If I found $150,000 to spend on the schools, I would...
The school board's answer is "hire a public relations person"! What's yours?
My ideas: better school lunch, tutoring for kids who can't afford it, more supervision at lunchti... |
Terman dad |
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on May 16, 2013 at 8:45 am by Linguist, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
not homeless
Why do so many people think the people outide of Whole Foods and Pete's are homeless? The one guy who asks for things like 26cents,, for example are not homeless. He drives u... |
terri |
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on Jun 5, 2007 at 12:22 am by Chris, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
CRIMES & INCIDENTS
parking tickets
Why is it that one will get a ticket for parking downtown for more than 2 hrs. in one place, but everyday there are dozens of cars on El Camino using the street as a car lot? ... |
terri |
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on Jun 4, 2007 at 10:41 pm by gERI, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood |
ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTO
Tips on visiting Santiago, Chile?
We are traveling to Santiago for spring break with our son's soccer team with a mixed group of 16 year-old boys and parents, and are looking for any suggestions on sight-seein... |
Terri L |
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on Feb 26, 2007 at 11:41 am by D, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Stanford Cancer Center: A Wonderful Resource
I'd like to alert cancer patients and their families to a wonderful resource in our community: the Stanford Cancer Center. It offers a range of programs, free of charge, to ca... |
Terri, breast cancer survivor |
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on May 31, 2006 at 5:18 pm by Terri, breast cancer survivor, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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