These days, my walks almost always involve some part of Maple Street. Redwood City’s Maple Street begins at El Camino Real and skirts the edge of downtown Redwood City before crossing Broadway, Veterans Boulevard and then Highway 101. Next, it hits a section of Redwood Creek, where it makes …

Next year, I will be finishing my high school journalism career as the editor-in-chief of the Burlingame High School newspaper, the Burlingame B. When I walked into the journalism class as a freshman, never in a million years would I have been able to predict how these past years in the jour…

Will giving away 400 free diapers to parents who give birth at participating California hospitals make a difference in the affordability crisis? No, but it will cost $20 million and be good for one news cycle.

The ink on last week’s column barely was dry (or the electronic impulse barely pulsed) before the comments — mild curiosity gusting to outrage — began showing up.

It has been instructive — but hardly surprising — to watch our assembled Big Media (and even the not-so-big) fret about the upcoming June primary election here in the Golden State.

My ballot arrived last Wednesday, it sat on the kitchen counter for two days. I dropped it at the corner post box on Friday, and a text came through Saturday afternoon confirming it had been received. Four days from envelope-in-mailbox to envelope-in-the-system, not bad — thanks USPS.

The best thing a parent can do is let their young athlete be benched (sometimes).

I’ve never been a boat person, although I’ve had numerous occasions to become one. When I was a teenager, my father taught me to sail on his tiny sailboat. Later in life, my folks purchased a place on Lake Tahoe, complete with the requisite motorboat; there I learned to manage that type of c…

My school hosted our annual Decision Day celebration May 1. It’s a tradition that high schools across the country celebrate for National College Decision Day, the official date by which seniors are supposed to enroll in the college they plan on attending.

As California’s voters receive their primary election ballots and began returning them in to be counted, the seven leading candidates for governor on Tuesday night engaged in an occasionally slashing, two-hour debate that reflected a race that’s too close to call.

What a mess.

When it comes to higher education, it is probably understandable that the media tend to focus on four-year institutions. They are more visible and command our attention in a variety of important ways.