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A well-informed population is essential to the proper functioning of a democratic society. Unfortunately, if all you read this week regarding Judge Michael Kenny’s latest decision in the Atherton cases was Mike Rosenberg’s Mercury News article, you would be significantly ill-informed about what the ruling actually held and what it actually means for the California [...]
It’s refreshing when HSR critics stop beating about the bush and just come right out and say what we all know they really believe. So I give credit to Atherton mayor Jim Dobbie for telling the truth in this Wall Street Journal article: “We have many houses close to the railroad in the multiple millions [...]
When it comes to rich and powerful, it’s not easy to beat Alain C. Enthoven. He served as a Deputy Secretary of Defense under Robert S. McNamara during the 1960s. He was a professor at Stanford and is now an emeritus professor there as well. He lives an Atherton and owns a home with an [...]
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you owned property in Atherton about one block away from the existing Caltrain corridor. And let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you were also an emeritus professor at the Stanford Business School. Would you be able to resist the temptation to use your academic credentials [...]
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