If it wasn’t already true, Half Moon Bay is becoming known for its downtown murals.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Please join me in welcoming Debra Hershon back to the Half Moon Bay Review. As publisher, Hershon has overall responsibility at the Review, including marketing, advertising, special …
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
“As the specter of climate change increases, so does the fear and likelihood of more wildfires in populated areas. … Santa Cruz County faces increasing risk of life and property dama…
Wednesday, September 02, 2020
On the evening of May 5, a petite 56-year-old woman walked down Main Street holding a loaded Mossberg shotgun. In her fanny pack was a Pathfinder .22-caliber pistol, 84 rounds of amm…
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
We have a new tourism campaign for the San Mateo County coast. It goes like this:
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
The horrors of 2020 are legion and affecting everyone to one degree or another. Kids are denied the ritual of the new school year. Their college-age siblings can’t gather or network …
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
This is the year the Coastside moves from at-large to by-district voting for important local elective offices. So far, there is little evidence that the change is advancing us toward…
Tuesday, August 04, 2020
We learned a lot from the Half Moon Bay Review’s virtual Back-to-School event, held Saturday over Zoom. Consider it our first homework assignment of the new school year. We grade our…
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Unbeknown to most San Mateo County residents, their elected representatives meet weekly — albeit remotely — with county officials, including Health Officer Dr. Scott Morrow. The meet…
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Over the last four months, much talk has centered around reopening bars, beaches and barbershops. Comparatively little has been said about how to educate our children through a pande…
Tuesday, July 07, 2020
COVID-19 continues to create CONFUSION-20.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Here on the coast of California, we like to think of ourselves as progressives. Phrases like “defund the police” and “Black Lives Matter” do not, as a rule, make us shudder. We are w…
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
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San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe makes a stunning admission in our front-page story detailing why so few law enforcement officers are charged with a crime when they…
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
In May 2019, we raised alarms about the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office request to scout for locations to place automated license plate readers at prominent intersections in town. …