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“Palo Alto — and you can find this data in the census — is increasingly an aging, silver retirement community. It's either — you bought in the seventies, eighties or nineties, or you struck it rich on the startup lottery. I know our town can be a hell of a lot more than that.”

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Palo Alto Weekly

@paloaltoweekly

· Nov 28, 2020

As he enters his final weeks in office, #PaloAlto Mayor Adrian Fine discusses his frustrations with local leadership, hobbled quests to build more housing and hopes for future council members to move the city forward. paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/11/2

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Marty Manley

@MartyManley

Dec 1, 2020

How exactly can a town be more than the sum of its residents? Especially if those residents tacitly conspire to close off their town (as most of us in the Bay Area do).

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Nothing wrong with putting walls up around your house, neighborhood, city. We charge to come across the bridge. Is that racist? Some people just want to be left alone on their island and not be colonized or upgraded or forcibly diversified or whatever they don't actually want.

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in that case, we should all probably leave this country.

Jesse Powell

@jespow

Dec 3, 2020

The global carnage and suffering funded by our tax dollars alone should be enough to leave the country. Moving is a hassle though so cognitive dissonance finds a way to justify staying.