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Coping with a tragedy — without coddling ourselvesSeveral years ago, I had lunch with a local police chief and realized he was a bit silent. “Everything okay?” I asked. “Well, not quite,”...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Jun. 9, 2021Last comment by NanaDi, on Jun 15, 2021 at 11:12 am | 9 comments | 4438 Views
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A quiz: So how much do you really know about Palo Alto?It’s a local newly created zoom game. A small group of Rotary Club of Palo Alto members played it last Friday evening. President Ben Threlkeld, O.D., an optometrist...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Jun. 2, 2021Last comment by arabianpetals, on Jun 12, 2021 at 5:53 am | 15 comments | 6591 Views
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Gov. Newsom: Impose water use restrictions NOW. City Council: Vote on police encryption ASAPWhy hasn’t Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that we should immediately start cutting down our water usage because California will have a devastating drought this...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on May. 25, 2021Last comment by Lonnie Woods, on Jun 1, 2021 at 9:10 pm | 16 comments | 4308 Views
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Police departments using PR techniques to justify their actionsI am concerned. Police departments around the country are circling their wagons because of recent public criticisms about their officers’ wrongdoings, most notably...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on May. 18, 2021Last comment by Jennifer, on May 19, 2021 at 2:22 pm | 8 comments | 4142 Views
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Why you may not read this columnOnly 10 percent (+ or –2%) of American adults get their daily news from either a newspaper or a TV news show. That means the rest of us don’t. And many...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on May. 10, 2021Last comment by Juliana, on May 18, 2021 at 1:55 pm | 25 comments | 3537 Views
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Union demands too many: Open up the schools now!Should teachers be prioritized over others to get the coronavirus vaccine? Most of us would probably say yes, BUT… and there’s usually a “but” about most...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Feb. 21, 2021Last comment by peppered, on May 16, 2021 at 3:47 pm | 27 comments | 6768 Views
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Memo to PA Police Chief Jonsen: What are you hiding from us? And why?TO: Robert Jonsen, Chief of Police, Palo Alto FROM: Diana Diamond, Palo Alto resident TOPIC: Keeping residents in the dark about police activities Chief,...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on May. 4, 2021Last comment by Staying Young Through Kids, on May 10, 2021 at 1:13 pm | 28 comments | 2814 Views
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Climate change: A critical challenge for Palo Alto? Or, an impossible goal?The Palo Alto City Council has taken on what environmentalists see as an important big step in trying to cut this city’s carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Apr. 28, 2021Last comment by Me 2, on May 3, 2021 at 11:28 pm | 22 comments | 2499 Views
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Don’t keep information from the publicWe have a city hall and police department transparency problem in Palo Alto that seems to be quietly but quickly expanding. That’s because: City Manager...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Apr. 20, 2021Last comment by Sue Dremann, on Apr 30, 2021 at 2:09 pm | 13 comments | 1834 Views
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My Man vs. SquirrelI never thought much about squirrels until I owned a dog. Dogs love these little bushy-tailed critters and have great fun unsuccessfully chasing them. But now my...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Apr. 13, 2021Last comment by Trish, on Apr 19, 2021 at 9:18 pm | 8 comments | 2119 Views
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The Power Outage: From a Lemon to LemonadeAt 5 p.m. on Saturday, my power went out, along with 7,000 other Palo Alto residents. I think for all of us on the Peninsula, power outages occasionally occur, so...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Mar. 29, 2021Last comment by Bystander, on Apr 14, 2021 at 11:48 am | 16 comments | 4459 Views
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Palo Alto has an escalating transparency problem -- the police have shut their doorsOn Monday, April 5, the police chief of Minneapolis, Medaria Arradondo, was testifying at the George Floyd trial about his professional view that defendant Derek...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Apr. 6, 2021Last comment by Ruben Marquez, on Apr 13, 2021 at 12:35 pm | 8 comments | 2740 Views
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The coronavirus vaccine: So we had the capability of sending a man to the moon . . .The incompetency in this country to produce and provide enough COVID-19 vaccines to Americans is most disturbing. As the age-old adage goes, if America can send...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Mar. 20, 2021Last comment by Bystander, on Mar 29, 2021 at 3:17 pm | 17 comments | 5271 Views
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What I Saw on Mulberry Street – and other cultural revisionsWriting about racism in our society today is always a delicate – and sometimes a dicey -- matter. Some people, it seems, are rushing to declare a book as “racist”...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Mar. 9, 2021Last comment by ariel fleming, on Mar 19, 2021 at 11:40 am | 72 comments | 9079 Views
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Whoof! Our problems have all disappearedWe have no more "problems." They are now all gone. Instead, we only have “challenges.” Yes, “New Speak,” as George Orwell once phrased it in “1984,”...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Mar. 2, 2021Last comment by avery james, on Mar 5, 2021 at 2:40 pm | 13 comments | 4864 Views
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Can you hear me yet?Scene — Ten members of the “Over 50” club, each sitting in front of their computer, trying to participate in a meeting on Zoom. Janice: “Can...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Feb. 12, 2021Last comment by Jeff Knowles, on Feb 15, 2021 at 4:50 pm | 5 comments | 5838 Views
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Pesky annoyances are hurting medical clinics — and they need to be solvedThe medical profession tries to run customer-friendly efficient clinics, and in some areas — like phone call reminders of upcoming visits,— they do a...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Feb. 3, 2021Last comment by Longtime Resident, on Feb 9, 2021 at 3:56 pm | 17 comments | 6480 Views
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A lot can happen in one year — or — it isn’t what it used to beI am amazed at how our lives have changed around the world because of one stupid virus, that keeps on morphing away so that it becomes more and more contagious. ...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Jan. 27, 2021Last comment by Resident 1-Adobe Meadows, on Feb 2, 2021 at 10:27 pm | 2 comments | 4976 Views
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Inaugural reflectionsThe rapid repair of the country’s Capitol shows what our country can do. By Inauguration Day it was repaired, and bedecked with furling flags, appropriate...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Jan. 20, 2021Last comment by Resident 1-Adobe Meadows, on Jan 26, 2021 at 9:44 am | 39 comments | 6043 Views
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PA Police: Too drastic a decision on banning police information from publicThe Palo Alto Police Department definitely made a mistake when it abruptly sent an email to local media on Tuesday, Jan. 5, stating that starting immediately the...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Jan. 10, 2021Last comment by Duveneck neighbor, on Jan 14, 2021 at 1:32 pm | 6 comments | 5304 Views
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