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... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Apr 28, 2010 at 5:12 pm There have been 6 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jun 8, 2010 at 4:21 am.
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... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Mar 31, 2010 at 4:03 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Sep 26, 2012 at 3:26 pm.
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 READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Mar 5, 2010 at 11:38 am
EDITOR'S DESK Remember this ... PATTY GUINTO represents the Northern California chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, which keeps an office at 1060 La... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Feb 25, 2010 at 3:44 pm
EDITOR'S DESK Y axis ANDY DOERSCHUK is a Mountain View resident, drummer, founding editor of Drum! magazine, and a s... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Feb 16, 2010 at 11:03 am
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... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Jan 29, 2010 at 4:03 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jun 2, 2011 at 1:20 pm.
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... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Jan 5, 2010 at 6:19 pm
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... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Dec 22, 2009 at 3:50 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Dec 24, 2009 at 5:39 pm.
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... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Dec 10, 2009 at 3:31 pm There have been 8 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 1, 2010 at 11:35 pm.
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... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Don Frances, Mountain View Voice Editor, on Dec 1, 2009 at 10:24 am
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 Education Day" in honor of ... well, some kind of pi... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Sep 1, 2009 at 1:42 pm There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Dec 6, 2009 at 9:42 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 8 comments on this topic, the most recent on Dec 21, 2010 at 12:38 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.
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