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A new coalition that includes former mayors, philanthropists, athletes and civic volunteers is spearheading a $33-million campaign to revive a popular project: building Palo Alto's first city-owned gym.
This past week the Bayshore Baptist congregation put on a Thanksgiving dinner for the community, inviting one and all to come, and delivering meals to those who couldn’t get out. That got me thinking of the story in The Year of Jubilo,...
Palo Alto is preparing to pass a law next week that would roughly triple the number of trees classified as "protected" and create new requirements for developers and residents looking to uproot these trees.
Palo Alto is preparing to pass a law next week that would roughly triple the number of trees classified as "protected" and create new rules for developers and residents looking to uproot these trees.
In Sarasota, “Money talks, history walks.” I remember when there was a push to save Sarasota High School, long before Dr. Larry Thompson raised the funds to engineer a fantastic makeover of the Collegiate Gothic school which served generations of locals, myself included. A group of former students devised a bumper sticker that read, “History Cannot Be Bought.” I still have one. On the sticker attached to my car I crossed the “not” part. Indeed, Sarasota history CAN be bought. And has been often, and for quite some time. But concurrent with the losses, there have been important sav...