PAUL LOSCH'S COMMUNITY BLOG
Get Ready for a Palo Alto Character Change
I write this with a heavy heart.
I think the vast majority of people who live in Palo Alto really love this place. Given how expensive it is on the one hand, and the gre... |
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on Oct 23, 2009 at 9:16 pm by Outside Observer, a resident of another community |
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Obama's Undeserved Peace Prize
This is not about Obama.
The Nobel folks decided, rightly or wrongly, to send the message that the United States as a country is important, and the Obama leadership is welc... |
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on Oct 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm by A Noun Ea Mus, a resident of the Professorville neighborhood |
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How to Differentiate and Select CPA Council Candidates
On occasion, I am described as being as an "insider," which makes me laugh. I am willing to offer up a point of view on this blog and as a member of the Parks and Recreation ... |
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on Oct 5, 2009 at 9:07 am by Education doesn\'t matter, a member of the Hoover School community |
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On Things Collective
On Things Collective—Wisdom, Bargaining, Folly, and Sailing
Many of us in Palo Alto have sailed in San Francisco Bay. I had a week’s vacation in the mid-1990’s when I took... |
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on Oct 4, 2009 at 3:38 pm by Dirk, a resident of the South of Midtown neighborhood |
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Wither Daytime TV Soap Operas?
I can remember when I stayed home sick from school that my mother would always watch "As the World Turns," a daily soap opera, one of many back in the day.
I heard on NPR t... |
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on Sep 19, 2009 at 6:06 pm by Jarred, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Boomer's Entertainers Are Starting to Die
I am not describing an epidemic. It's just that some folks that I saw on TV and heard on radio in the '60s and 70's are reaching the end of life.
Mary Travers, of Peter Pa... |
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on Sep 17, 2009 at 7:04 pm by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Obama, GW Bush, FDR and Presidential Leadership
Some of my thinking here is based upon some opinions by national columnists and other readings of late, so it is not entitely original.
I have learned in recent readings th... |
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on Sep 10, 2009 at 10:48 pm by mystery solved, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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High Speed Rail Needs to Slow Down
I am not crazy about litigation and courts getting involved in matters of public policy, unless it is necessary.
The law not on the books is the law of unintended consequen... |
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on Aug 28, 2009 at 5:52 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Aligning Public Objectives with Public Solutions
There are too many sacred cows.
There are too many things that take on a life of their own once they are instituted, and they don't have Sarah Palin's "death panels" to pas... |
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on Aug 26, 2009 at 9:09 am by pat, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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PA Employees and Actuarial Matters
This is a Third Rail Matter, and I understand that as I write this.
The retirement programs that Palo Alto and most other local government entities in California are actuar... |
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on Aug 25, 2009 at 9:15 am by comprehension, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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National Health Care Policy
This clearly is a complex, contentious, and at times confusing subject facing the country right now.
One thing I have not heard or read a great deal about is whether there ... |
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on Aug 14, 2009 at 12:22 pm by Keith, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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"Cash For Clunkers" Car Buying
I fervently hope that this program is having the purported positive impact on car sales and the general economy that led Congress to add $2 billion before they all went home t... |
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on Aug 9, 2009 at 7:01 pm by anon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Cyber War -Vs- Conventional War
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/us/politics/02cyber.html?ref=todayspaper
This is a fascinating NYT article about how vulnerable the world is to cyber warfare.
We are i... |
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on Aug 7, 2009 at 5:16 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Gymnasiums Needed
Every time I drive by the long ago closed ARCO gas station that adjoins the Winter Park Skating Rink, I see a gymnasium.
Too many who are into indoor sport activity such as... |
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on Jul 27, 2009 at 5:13 pm by Reggie, a resident of the Charleston Meadows neighborhood |
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Local Employers Levi Strauss & NUMMI
Good news and bad news. Levi's will remain HQ'd in San Francisco for at least 10 more years. GM has pulled out of the joint venture with Toyota at the NUMMI plant in Fremont... |
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on Jul 23, 2009 at 2:09 pm by PAmoderate, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Seeing the CA Budget Impasse at Grass Roots Level
One of the things that gives me a good feeling about the business I own and run is that I am able to outsource a portion of the work we do to an agency in Santa Clara Country ... |
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on Jul 9, 2009 at 1:44 pm by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Iran Election Debacle
This is very problematic.
I had some hope that the current Iranian President, whose name I can neither spell or pronounce, would get drummed out of office, or at least get ... |
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on Jul 6, 2009 at 2:35 am by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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World Music Sunday In Downtown PA
Did you have a chance to go downtown on Father's Day Sunday afternoon?
World Music was out in force this weekend, not only in Palo Alto, but worldwide. This was the first ... |
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on Jun 22, 2009 at 4:16 pm by Paul Losch, a resident of the Community Center neighborhood |
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Tragedy at Holocaust Museum--Bay Area Implications
This one really hit home. I am not Jewish, but a Jewish friend of mine and I were at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco to take in the excellent exhibit on displ... |
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on Jun 14, 2009 at 4:02 pm by svatoid, a resident of the Charleston Gardens neighborhood |
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High Speed Rail: What a Boondoggle, Volume 1
I have learned in my professional life is to ask what are the objectives a certain concept or idea is meeting. It is important to get some agreement about objectives before c... |
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on Jun 13, 2009 at 7:27 pm by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Volunteer for the Senior Games
I have written in the past that I believe one of the elements that contribute to Palo Alto’s character is the active and robust volunteering that takes place here in town. Wh... |
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on Apr 29, 2009 at 12:10 pm by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto |
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PA Needs a Revenue Strategy
When Will We Have a Revenue Strategy in Town?
I am by background and professionally a marketing guy, so this is something I deal with daily.
Where is the thinking in Cit... |
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on Apr 26, 2009 at 7:15 pm by Steve Krafft, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Pirates!!!
I have a blog coming up around Palo Alto needing a genuine, bona fide revenue strategy. In the meantime...
This nonsense with pirates holding huge commercial ships hostage... |
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on Apr 17, 2009 at 3:09 pm by ahoy, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Wait-List Game Gets Bigger in College Admissions
Spring Break just ended and April is here. That means for many of our high schoolers and their families that it's College Time -- from campus visits to admission and rejection... |
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on Apr 4, 2009 at 5:31 pm by anonymous, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
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On becoming a blogger ...
Becoming a "blogger" is something I never envisioned as a path in life -- mainly because that avocation didn't exist. And, perhaps like most of us, I'm not even sure what that... |
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on Apr 3, 2009 at 5:44 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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