We don’t usually weigh in on politics in Washington, D.C. Generally, we’re content with our own more parochial problems. But it’s not every day that a mob bent on upending our democr…

Each week, the editorial staff of the Review meets to discuss ideas for the coming edition. Emerging out of this is a “story budget,” which is a term of art that is essentially a lis…

We will all be glad to be rid of the stink of 2020. It was a year unlike any that we have ever seen. We were choked by wildfire, racked by social division and humbled by a pandemic t…

Don’t be lulled to sleep by the soft-spoken, waist-high kid in the green Crocs. Aiden Zahedi gets things done. The same could be said of his friend, teenager Niamh Dawes and their si…

Recently, a caller to the Half Moon Bay Review office wanted to know how many COVID-19 cases there were in our coastal town. The answer, at this writing, is both 379 and who knows. T…

These are difficult days for local agriculture. That probably isn’t a controversial statement.

In more normal times, this might be the biggest story of the year.

It didn’t take a savant to know that San Mateo County’s fast-tracked proposal to buy two Coastside hotels to use as housing for those experiencing homelessness would be a public rela…

So much is in flux these days, but one thing is certain: This will be the strangest Thanksgiving many of us will ever face.

There was something undeniably odd about watching Mayor Adam Eisen deliver the “state of the city” address online last week. Maybe that is because the city has never been in such a state.

In 2020, the California economy imploded, wildfires burned hundreds of homes sending toxic smoke over our cities, and a novel virus infected nearly a million people in the state, kil…

As I write these words (and perhaps even as you are reading them) there is much that remains to be determined in the general election that concluded voting on Tuesday. There is a mon…