COVID-19 continues to create CONFUSION-20.
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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. …
Tuesday, June 09, 2020
Out of an abundance of fear, local authorities ordered San Mateo County’s 730,000 residents off the streets and into their homes from 8:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. on June 2 and 3. It was the …
Tuesday, June 02, 2020
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I keep thinking about the camouflage. Forget, for a moment, the armored personnel carrier that rumbled into Half Moon Bay on Oct. 19, 2019, ostensibly to protect us during last year’…
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Will October be a lot less orange on the coast than usual? It’s time to ask whether Half Moon Bay can expect to host its usual pumpkin frivolity this fall in light of a global pandem…
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
When the virus came to the coast of California the people did not. As a result, the transient occupancy taxes that help Half Moon Bay officials sleep at night have disappeared like t…
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Like most of us, Sandra Harmon was a multifaceted individual. A working woman with a wide smile and devoted family, she was also haunted by health issues she could no longer hold at …
Friday, May 01, 2020
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The rules for what you can and can’t do after seven weeks of more or less avoiding people and commerce have become unwieldy, unenforceable, conflicting and just plain confounding. As…
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Many of us have held certain truths to be self-evident, including the belief that America is a fundamentally just place in which rational leaders work for the common good. COVID-19 i…
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
The sound is both eerie and ecstatic. It starts as a distant thing, like a siren or a car horn. Then someone nearby joins in. Now a boat blasts its horn. And because they are copycat…
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
One persistent question we have gotten about the coronavirus pandemic is this: How many positive cases are there on the Coastside?
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Today, we are hosting a party at our Kelly Avenue offices, inviting one and all to come on down, enjoy the sunshine and huddle in tight groups of happy neighbors thrilled to be congr…
Friday, March 20, 2020
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Crisis has a way of stripping off all that is extraneous and leaving us with what is essential. Boy, are we learning that now.