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Time For Binks Gym To Have A Complete Facelift

Each basketball season, PHS boys and girls basketball teams compete for limited time in Binks Gym. When Binks Gym hosts games, the other PHS basketball teams – along with girls volleyball – are redirected to Buzz or Morrison Gym which often result in practices late into the evening. Not only does this shuffle incovenience PHS…

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City Council: Citizens Demand A Plan For An Off-Leash Dog Park!

Piedmont is in the throes of figuring out how to preserve its off-leash dog areas for future generations.  The major concern seems to be how to preserve the vegetated slopes in these areas – think of the slopes above Bushy Dell Creek in Piedmont Park, the slopes of the redwood grove in Dracena Park and the…

Follow-up: The Kenyon Era of Privilege, Betrayal, and the Wrong Client

Following up on the excellent February 2, 2026 post:  If Kenyon served administrators rather than residents, was she ever truly the city’s attorney? Or merely a corrupt lap dog for the bureaucracy, hiding incompetence behind attorney-client privilege?  Her intellectually bankrupt Charter contortion—sacrificing voter rights for staff convenience—constituted a betrayal of staggering proportions. How many disenfranchisements…

City Attorney Kenyon’s legacy

Michelle Kenyon, Piedmont City AttorneyBurke, Williams and Sorensen, LLP Legal Interpretation of Section 9.02 of Piedmont City Charter INTRODUCTIONQuestions have been posed regarding whether a vote of the electorate is required under City Charter Section 9.02 to modify the permitted or conditional uses or increase densities within an established zone. Both the Charter and City…

Does Piedmont have a City, Council, or Staff Attorney?

Piedmont’s long-standing City Attorney, Michelle Kenyon, retired this month. Piedmonters didn’t get a good look at her work – most of the legal analysis she prepared was not available to the public under attorney-client privilege, and the more complex legal matters for the city were contracted out to specialists. She frequently did provide advice on…

Piedmont’s Crisis of Competence, Not Zip Codes

A recent op-ed, “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” despite its curious distractions, inadvertently underscores frustrations shared by many residents. There is clear agreement: the city administrator’s performance is lacking, and the council’s composition is a problem. The author is also correct that the manufactured rivalry between Upper and Lower Piedmont is a distraction from our shared governance…

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Our City’s Costly Experiment in Hiring

The evidence of failure in city leadership is no longer anecdotal; it is concrete and costly. The swimming pool renovation debacle squandered millions of dollars on a project that remains unfinished. And the rapid erosion of civil discourse at council meetings points to a profound failure in management. These are not isolated incidents. They are…