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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” William Shakespeare once proclaimed in “Hamlet.” I will soften that considerably, but suggest something is amiss in the city of Palo Alto. In my blog last week, “Why am I suspicious about Palo Alto’s budget cuts,” someone asked me how the 9/80 system was started in Palo […]

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Diana Diamond is a long time, experience journalist who has been a staff member of the San Jose Mercury News, serving on its editorial board and has been editor of the Daily News and the Daily Post. She...