EDITOR'S DESK
Tweet-tweet
HAVE ANY OF you, my dear readers, been using the Twitter much? No?
Somebody's sure using it, and it isn't just kids. I've seen the likes of Margaret Abe-Koga, Alicia Crank... |
Don Frances |
5442 |
4 |
on Sep 26, 2012 at 3:26 pm by K, a resident of the Sylvan Park neighborhood |
EDITOR'S DESK
Death of a writer
READERS OF OUR Jan. 15 print edition might have noticed an unusual obituary.
"Mark Zamen, an author and longtime Mountain... |
Don Frances |
6386 |
2 |
on Jun 2, 2011 at 1:20 pm by Tom Stoker, a resident of another community |
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 ... |
Don Frances |
6707 |
8 |
on Dec 21, 2010 at 12:38 pm by \"Just Think About It\", a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
EDITOR'S DESK
The long goodbye
I'M HEADED to the hospital -- and everything's fine.
It's been a great five years as your editor here, but changes are afoot: I've taken a job at El Camino Hospital, where... |
Don Frances |
7080 |
6 |
on Jun 8, 2010 at 4:21 am by Caryn Coleman, a resident of the Castro City neighborhood |
EDITOR'S DESK
Manifesto
PERSONALLY, I thought our war against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had already been won fair and square.
Yet i... |
Don Frances |
5788 |
8 |
on Apr 1, 2010 at 11:35 pm by What the heck, a resident of the Cuesta Park neighborhood |
EDITOR'S DESK
What Ken said
"How long will it take for Silicon Valley to save us all from the Great Recession?"
That's the question I |
Don Frances |
5091 |
0 |
on Mar 5, 2010 at 11:38 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
EDITOR'S DESK
Remember this ...
PATTY GUINTO represents the Northern California chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, which keeps an office at 1060 La... |
Don Frances |
5204 |
0 |
on Feb 25, 2010 at 3:44 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
EDITOR'S DESK
Y axis
ANDY DOERSCHUK is a Mountain View resident, drummer, founding editor of Drum! magazine, and a s... |
Don Frances |
5000 |
0 |
on Feb 16, 2010 at 11:03 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
EDITOR'S DESK
A New Year's resolution
THIS MONDAY was the first Monday of the New Year, and I was just back from vacation, and the air was fresh and full of promise. Best of all, my inbox wasn't too full.
Stil... |
Don Frances |
5333 |
0 |
on Jan 5, 2010 at 6:19 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
EDITOR'S DESK
Santa sightings
MY GIRLS HAD a marvelous time at the "Winter Fairy Tale," a kids' ballet put on by Bayer Ballet Academy last Sunday at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
Stel... |
Don Frances |
7811 |
2 |
on Dec 24, 2009 at 5:39 pm by Ellen Minkin, a resident of another community |
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 Education Day" in honor of ... well, some kind of pi... |
Editor |
4102 |
3 |
on Dec 6, 2009 at 9:42 pm by Real Dahn, a resident of another community |
EDITOR'S DESK
Sports feed
THE GOOD PEOPLE at KMVT are tireless in coming up with new ways to deliver content to Mountain View residents without hurting their own bottom line. The Internet has been inst... |
Don Frances |
5441 |
0 |
on Dec 1, 2009 at 10:24 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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... |
Don Frances |
6110 |
0 |
on Nov 3, 2009 at 3:54 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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 ... |
Don Frances |
8015 |
20 |
on Oct 29, 2009 at 10:32 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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 ... |
Don Frances |
5794 |
0 |
on Oct 14, 2009 at 11:02 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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 ... |
Don Frances |
6043 |
0 |
on Sep 24, 2009 at 1:32 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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... |
Don Frances |
6305 |
2 |
on Sep 16, 2009 at 4:38 pm by property owner, a resident of another community |
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 |
Don Frances |
5801 |
0 |
on Sep 8, 2009 at 11:57 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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), ... |
Don Frances |
6081 |
0 |
on Aug 13, 2009 at 3:36 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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... |
Don Frances |
6396 |
14 |
on Jul 31, 2009 at 2:42 pm by Dr. Hibbebrt, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
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... |
Don Frances |
6253 |
0 |
on Jul 17, 2009 at 2:18 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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:... |
Don Frances |
6205 |
0 |
on Jun 9, 2009 at 12:34 pm by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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... |
Don Frances |
6305 |
6 |
on May 29, 2009 at 10:34 am by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor |
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 |
Don Frances |
4907 |
1 |
on May 7, 2009 at 6:45 pm by Johnny Robots, a resident of the North Whisman neighborhood |
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... |
Don Frances |
4748 |
4 |
on Apr 27, 2009 at 2:28 pm by eric, a resident of another community |
View in an RSS Reader
