Dear Editor: I am not driving on Highway 92 or Highway 1 that often but the past few weeks have seen a dramatic daily increase in logging trucks with what appears to be redwood trees.
At this writing, the Estrada Fire — the latest wildland fire turned social media hashtag — had burned about 150 acres, causing an anxious weekend for residents along the Santa Cruz-Santa Clara county border. First there was smoke. Then the sound of sirens pouring in from across the state. Th…
All good things must come to an end. And, somewhat sadly, the party is over.
The unvaccinated have stolen Coastsiders’ Pumpkin Festival through their reckless irresponsibility, like some infectious “Grinch Who Stole Fall.” At least, so we were told in an op-ed published in the Half Moon Bay Review on Sept. 15 and authored by David Eblovi, of Half Moon Bay. Not only i…
For the last 6 ½ years, I have been living in different medical facilities, recovering from Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Because I have a severe case of the muscle-nerve disorder, I am limited in what I can do.
Since 1898, the Half Moon Bay Review has provided the community with local news. With this week’s paper we are kicking off our big subscription drive, and in doing so, we will be doubling the Review’s circulation. This is important to us because we want this community to be more engaged with…
During the last school year, in the fog of COVID-19, the entire library at Pescadero Middle and High School was removed. It was replaced by a “social justice library” with the caveat that only “approved” books could be added. Obviously, this draconian action has been met with some resistance…
It seems that virtually every school district in the Bay Area is either providing housing for teachers or considering doing so in an effort to retain qualified staff that increasingly can’t afford prevailing market rates.
While the Latinx success data in the recent Half Moon Bay Review article headlined “Latinos 5 times as likely to fail at Cabrillo schools” is disheartening, it is neither new nor entirely surprising. As an educator for more than 20 years and an unapologetic advocate for the economic upward m…
We’d like to take a point of privilege to address legislation of particular importance to news reporters like those at the Tribune and across the state. Two bills are on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk now.
Twitter is more than a social media app. It’s a mirror.
Dear Editor: Who plants a bunch of plants during the worst drought in recent memory and makes sure they get watered? That would be the city of Half Moon Bay at the new light at Highway 1 and Main Street.
Dear Editor: We live in the area affected by the three weekend power outages on the South Coast during September. We had ordered solar panels and backup batteries last February. Due to supply shortages, the sytem was just installed three days before the most recent outage.
How would you like to help enhance the livability of the Coastside for older adult residents of our area? San Mateo County, with the support of Board of Supervisors President David Canepa and his colleagues, have started a countywide effort to encourage local cities to launch “Age Friendly C…
Last week I submitted my resignation to the Main Street Bridge Advisory Board. My action was certainly not because of the workload from serving, even though I was elected to chair the board. On the contrary, of all the civic boards and commissions I’ve served, this project of our oversight s…
Gov. Gavin Newsom, fresh from what he surely considers a mandate, wasted no time to signal his support for creating more affordable housing. Now we see what happens.
California has often been criticized for lacking a comprehensive, holistic approach to housing and homelessness. When investments were made in the past, they were often scattered in their approach and design, with little strategic relation to other investments.
It occurred to me after reading the opinion pieces here last week by Jim Larimer and David Eblovi that a possible scientific solution to the persistent housing crisis might be at hand. I should point out, however, that the housing crisis has several root causes among which are the cost of ne…
“You don't just pick up cash that belongs to your employer, pass it around, spend it as you see fit, and not document the spending.”
The availability of potable water is not a reason to oppose development in drought-threatened California. The view that water should limit development is one of the false claims made by Not-In-My-Back-Yard organizations that want to stop the future. The NIMBY mantra that new development pose…
I have to ask, gentle reader, if there comes a point, any point, when you will accept your responsibility for what your decisions have wrought upon your community? In an age of personal non-accountability (with President Bill Clinton as the era’s poster-child) the current phase we are in app…
We rule followers have had it relatively easy this pandemic. We’ve waited, breathlessly, for the next opportunity to do the right thing by staying inside, wearing a mask and getting vaccinated. The next point of order, it may seem, would be to line up dutifully for our booster shots on the m…
Legalizing cannabis was supposed to be about social justice. About ending mass incarceration of people of color for possessing a small amount of marijuana. About safer legal access.
Nearly $2 trillion in federal funding is flowing to state and local governments as part of the American Rescue Plan, which is more than what President Franklin Roosevelt spent on the New Deal, even after accounting for inflation. With billions of these dollars being funneled to broadband inf…
Dear Editor: To confront California’s housing crisis also means confronting its water crisis, because fewer homes get built when water supplies tighten.
At last check, just over half of Americans are vaccinated against the potentially lethal effects of COVID-19. The numbers are better for California (about 60 percent) and much better in San Mateo County, where 80 percent of people over the age of 12 are fully vaccinated with one of three vac…
Inflation is on the rise all around the country, but in California we are paying the highest prices for gas in the nation, and the state’s median home prices are projected to climb 13.1 percent this year, compared to a 9.8 percent rise in 2020. As prices go up, it is more difficult for worki…
If not for deadly wildfires blackening some of California’s most beloved landscapes and a novel coronavirus still coursing through our communities, the state’s top existential challenge would be housing. Specifically, how to build more of it.
Dear Editor: Thank you for the article in the Aug. 18 newspaper headlined, “State attorney general ends Harmon shooting review,” by August Howell.
As millions of renters stare down the end of California’s eviction moratorium, we can clearly see the short- and long-term effects of the pandemic on Californians. It has crystallized just how many Californians decide whether they can pay rent or buy groceries, despite living in the wealthie…
Dear Editor: Thank you for taking the time and showing the courage to write and print your opinion in the Aug. 18 Review. Work of this type by the Review encourages me to continue my subscription.
Keith Mangold is a man on a mission to save El Granada from wildfires no one thought possible when he moved to town nearly 40 years ago. In fact, few contemplated unchecked fire burning through the canopy of eucalyptus even five years ago. Yet today everyone acknowledges the danger, even as …
The city of Half Moon Bay is in the process of planning for a corporation yard at the end of Stone Pine Road. Actually, it already exists and you can catch glimpses of it as you travel in and out of town on Highway 92. At the moment, it consists of an old ranch house and some storage contain…
Dear Editor: On behalf of the teachers of Hatch Elementary School, I share this letter that was shared with the Cabrillo Unified School District governing board in May.
More than 78 percent of the credentialed staff at Cabrillo Unified School District is white. Less than 15 percent of staff is Latino. There are no Black teachers. Meanwhile, only 41 percent of the student body is Caucasian. The majority of students are Latino with a sprinkling of every other…
California being what it is — a very large state with a complex social and economic matrix and a unique political structure — it generates an endless stream of analysis and criticism.
Dear Editor: As a relative newcomer to Half Moon Bay, I was struck by the depth of the treasure that is Ken Paul Lozada as evidenced by your July 21 opinion piece.
Dear Editor: The Half Moon Bay City Council has published two formal letters concerning the lawsuit it filed against the Montara Water and Sanitary District and the Granada Community Services District.