When I was 11 and my sister was 4, my grandma would drive us to the coast to care for and ride horses. Now, we call those weekends “the golden days,” but back then, it was a common occurrence for us to be on horses, side by side, riding through a park.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
It’s early in 2020 and those in favor of consolidation of the Coastside’s water and sewer districts are already repeating their standard arguments.
Wednesday, January 08, 2020
This letter is in response to recent editorials and other discussion forums about zoning changes proposed for downtown Half Moon Bay. Statements in the coverage have suggested that t…
As he was running for governor, Gavin Newsom repeatedly and emphatically promised to attack California’s housing shortage head-on, pledging in an online article to “lead the effort t…
Thursday, January 02, 2020
Early in the 21st century and after years of resisting the “Carmelization” of our town, Half Moon Bay embraced it, complete with a Ritz-Carlton. And now, nearly two decades later, th…
Thursday, December 26, 2019
Attention Half Moon Bay Parks Commission, City Council, community development director and planners: The word “passive” is defined as accepting or allowing without active response or…
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Two weeks ago, at the HMB City Council meeting, we got a firsthand display of relentless fear-mongering and baseless innuendo courtesy of freshman Councilmember Robert Brownstone.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
The Nov. 27 Half Moon Bay Review article by Libby Leyden, headlined “Coastside lacks services to treat opioid crisis,” brings up some very important points about how this national cr…
As retired teachers and colleagues, Genevra Putnam, Kate Livingston and I wish to respond to the Half Moon Bay Review’s article dated Nov. 13 regarding the case against Joel Altamira…
Wednesday, December 04, 2019
I moved to this piece of heaven called Half Moon Bay more than three years ago, and I absolutely love it here. I love the sense of community; I love the majestic sunsets and the dive…
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
I first felt the meaning of Thanksgiving deeply only eight years ago. My work with our homeless neighbors in Half Moon Bay led me to a great relationship with Potrero Nuevo Farm. We …
It’s so easy to complain, and there is much to complain about and to work to change. I find tension in my jaw and harrumphs — and sometimes unprintable things -— uttering from my mou…
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The light switch in the bathroom didn’t work. I had just woken up at daylight. Something was wrong.
The 2020 Census is soon to be done. One of the things that Census data is used for is to allow governments to reassign certain districts. For example, the Census data is used to dete…
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
The recent article (Review, Oct. 30) about the funding for a new Medical Reserve Corps unit is encouraging, however, the depiction of the prior San Mateo Coastside MRC unit as a grou…
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Fire is a fact of life in California, and we all have a responsibility to expand our individual and collective resiliency to it. The occurrence and severity of fire is dependent on t…