EDITOR'S DESK Tips and treats WORD IS, this Halloween was the last time we'll ever see the world-famous DC Cemetery.
According to this rumor, Brent Ross, the Bush Street resident and designer of Mountain... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Nov 3, 2009 at 3:54 pm
EDITOR'S DESK Wo'O to you THOSE WHO SPEND any time in Mountain View have seen the "Idea Farm" truck parked around. I myself have passed it numerous times, figuring we'd write about it eventually.
It ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Oct 21, 2009 at 4:08 pm There have been 20 comments on this topic, the most recent on Oct 29, 2009 at 10:32 am.
EDITOR'S DESK World in harmony I MADE MY way to the Community School of Music and Arts on a recent Monday evening with a strange (for me) purpose in mind: to stand in a room with two dozen other people and ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Oct 14, 2009 at 11:02 am
EDITOR'S DESK Weekend plans I'VE GOT YOUR Saturday and Sunday all worked out for you:
Kick it off Saturday morning with $5 pancake breakfasts courtesy the Mountain View Fire Department. Then spend the ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Sep 24, 2009 at 1:32 pm
EDITOR'S DESK How to repair California There are just too many things going on this weekend, including, of course, the Art & Wine Festival (see you at the Voice booth Sunday morning), and yet another so-calle... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Sep 11, 2009 at 11:38 am There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Sep 16, 2009 at 4:38 pm.
EDITOR'S DESK Free to shout OUR RECENT editorial on town hall meetings — specifically, on Rep. Anna Eshoo's "telephone town hall meetings" — had a few readers READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Sep 8, 2009 at 11:57 am
EDITOR'S DESK Un-Dahn NOT LONG ago I wrote about Dahn Yoga, and the fact that Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga had declared an official "Brain Educat... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Aug 25, 2009 at 7:26 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Sep 1, 2009 at 8:02 pm.
EDITOR'S DESK Good-bye, she wrote MY OLD FRIEND and former colleague Tim Hay was once an editor for the Daily Review in Hayward. A few years ago he left that for a new job (he now writes for Dow Jones), ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Aug 13, 2009 at 3:36 pm
EDITOR'S DESK The toot of madness MANY OF YOU have been writing in to ask about the apparently new, louder and more piercing horns on the Caltrain trains.
"Has anyone else noticed the new noise from the trai... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Jul 29, 2009 at 3:41 pm There have been 14 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jul 31, 2009 at 2:42 pm.
EDITOR'S DESK Local listings BRIAN SZABO, executive director of KMVT — Mountain View's very own community television station — rang me up earlier this week to call our attention to a story in the ==I Merc... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Jul 17, 2009 at 2:18 pm
EDITOR'S DESK Mump and circumstance MOUNTAIN VIEW residents are normally an easygoing bunch. Rarely does something on the pages of the local newspaper get them too riled up.
It's true they take their schools ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Jun 16, 2009 at 7:05 pm There have been 7 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jun 24, 2009 at 2:45 pm.
EDITOR'S DESK All is revealed SOME READERS wondered about a cryptic message I put at the end of my column in the May 29 print edition: "Amazing Racers: Head for City Hall!" ("What the heck is that?" [http:... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Jun 9, 2009 at 12:34 pm
EDITOR'S DESK For your brain "MOUNTAIN VIEW Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga has issued a proclamation stating that May 8, 2009 is Brain Education Day."
So says Lisa Melnick, who wrote on behalf of the San Fran... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on May 28, 2009 at 11:48 am There have been 6 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 29, 2009 at 10:34 am.
EDITOR'S DESK Flu away AS NOTED in GoogleWatch, our new blog, the number of people googling the words "swine flu" dropped off precipitously this past week.
"According to Google's READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on May 7, 2009 at 12:15 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on May 7, 2009 at 6:45 pm.
EDITOR'S DESK The fifth dimension "You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind." --Rod Serling
THIS WEEK I read one of the most amazing and wondrous se... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Apr 24, 2009 at 12:03 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 27, 2009 at 2:28 pm.
EDITOR'S DESK Our pledge to you I GOT A SURPRISE call from my old friend Adriel Hampton over the weekend.
Adriel, a former colleague now living in Dublin (we worked together at the SF Examiner and elsewher... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Apr 6, 2009 at 9:23 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 7, 2009 at 12:05 pm.
EDITOR'S DESK Fooled ya FOR APRIL FOOL'S Day yesterday I thought I'd put up a blog post claiming that "Due to extreme loss of revenue, the Mountain View Voice regrets to announce that we will be shut... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Apr 2, 2009 at 3:09 pm
EDITOR'S DESK Sunrise, sunset LAST FRIDAY, in the print edition's "Seen Around Town" section, we ran a picture called "Fiery Sunset." It showed a blazing sky against a black silhouetted foreground, with a ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Mar 20, 2009 at 5:19 pm
EDITOR'S DESK Wide world NOW THAT "the honeymoon is over," and people are practically ready to blame Obama for the recession, is it too late to drag out one last remembrance from Inauguration Day?
... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Mar 10, 2009 at 8:24 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Mar 10, 2009 at 8:59 pm.
EDITOR'S DESK Get the word out I'VE GOTTEN some great responses to this week's introduction of Express, our online service which delivers daily headlines by e-mail (READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Mar 4, 2009 at 4:22 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 10, 2009 at 10:03 am.
EDITOR'S DESK Island dispatch THE PRESS RELEASE came in last week from our very own 129th Rescue Wing, stationed here at Moffett Field: "Guardsmen airlift critical equipment to Farallon NWR."
The Faral... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Feb 23, 2009 at 4:46 pm
EDITOR'S DESK A twestive gathering of twiends Tonight, the "San Jose US Twestival 2009" will be held in ... uh, Mountain View.
A "Twestival" seems to be a gathering of Twitter users -- Twitter being the online social ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Feb 12, 2009 at 3:18 pm
EDITOR'S DESK Poet didn't know it IN THIS ECONOMY, you've got to keep yourself open to all opportunities. That's why I thought I'd apply to be Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County.
At first glance the posit... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Feb 9, 2009 at 2:02 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Feb 9, 2009 at 3:54 pm.
EDITOR'S DESK Bluegrass, pie and coffee, fine folks DRIVING INTO WORK this morning (sometimes I miss the train), I caught a lovely song by the Claire Lynch Band on KZSU Stanford. Lynch and her band are a bluegrass act, and as t... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Feb 3, 2009 at 11:02 am
EDITOR'S DESK Big day LAST WEEK I asked you to send in your stories about Inauguration Day. We got a few nice responses.
One came from none other than Ellen Wheeler, trustee of the Mountain Vie... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Jan 27, 2009 at 8:31 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jan 30, 2009 at 4:26 pm.
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