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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... |
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on Aug 13, 2010 at 5:44 am by Perspective, a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
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Students Abroad and Egypt
I spoke on Skype with my daughter last night. She is doing a college semester in China.
She is finding that there is not a UPS Store as she goes through her experience. S... |
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on Feb 2, 2011 at 10:32 pm by Bob, a resident of Another Palo Alto 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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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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How to Sort Out Tragic Events In PA
There has been another Gunn High School student lost by suicide at the Meadow train tracks. The fourth suicide this year, and it would be five had one of them not been averte... |
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on Oct 27, 2009 at 3:35 pm by Sean, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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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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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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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 ... |
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on Oct 26, 2010 at 9:22 pm by anonymous, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
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An Angry" American Person" and Small Businessman
I don't think I am the only American Person who is insulted by the invocation by both sides of the aisle in Congress, especially the Senate, about what "The American People" w... |
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on Jan 10, 2010 at 1:42 pm by another angry American, a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
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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... |
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on Sep 1, 2010 at 1:40 pm by FullCircle, a resident of the Crescent Park 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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Chili Cook Off July 4th at Mitchell Park
This has to be one of the most fun events we have annually in Palo Alto.
In my capacity as a Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Commissioner, I put in my time with the satisfac... |
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on Jul 7, 2010 at 10:43 am by Hmm.., a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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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... |
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on Dec 3, 2010 at 12:09 pm by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto |
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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... |
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on Sep 7, 2010 at 8:46 pm by Merrill Inman Roe, a resident of the Professorville 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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Next City Council Has a Labor Problem....
So who are the best choices to deal with it?
I could use this posting to provide my own thoughts, but I will refrain this time.
Please provide your point of view. |
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on Oct 27, 2009 at 10:54 pm by Jake, a resident of another community |
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Next Supreme Court Nominee
I have a process observation and a substantive observation.
Process: it appears that Obama is trying to work with the Senate leadership and the Judiciary Committee leaders... |
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on Aug 6, 2010 at 6:56 am by The Real Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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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... |
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on Aug 5, 2010 at 9:55 pm by Alex Haselden, a resident of Mountain View |
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National Anthem at SuperBowl
I really have no clue who the woman is who “sung” the Star Spangled Banner prior to the start of the game today.
I do suspect that she was making more than minimum wage to ... |
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on Feb 11, 2011 at 8:32 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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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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A Different College Spring Break
My daughter, a PALY grad who now is attending a fine college in New England, related to me her Spring Break plans for later this month.
Cancun? Florida? Other places know... |
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on Mar 10, 2010 at 9:28 pm by MadamHooch, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
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Time at the Coffee Bars in PA
Each workday, I stop on my way to work in Fremont to one of a handful of Palo Alto coffee places to pick up a brew.
I take a “half caf” which helps me get my day started ... |
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on Mar 29, 2010 at 4:32 pm by Lisa, a resident of the Esther Clark 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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Go Cardinal Hoops!
March Madness Hoops this year has been great.
I am not one to obsess over sports, but I do appreciate what it can do for young people who participate in it, and the enter... |
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on Apr 9, 2010 at 12:05 am by Nora Charles, a resident of Stanford |
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