I Smell Paint
craigw By Craig Wiesner - San Mateo Daily Journal - Feb 19, 2025 In the 1980s, as I was escorting a group of brand new members of our unit towards the main ops…
The Lens
by Craig Wiesner - San Mateo Daily Journal - Feb 3, 2025 Paying subscribers to this invaluable community resource, the Daily Journal, get the benefit of being able to comment…
A Dream
by Craig Wiesner - San Mateo Daily Journal - January 13, 2025 I had a dream. On New Year's morning, after being awakened by explosions all around our neighborhood just…
DOGE Department
by Craig Wiesner - San Mateo Daily Journal - December 30, 2024 DE-Regulation 401-3.14h Program to Reduce Forms and Other Documents Program (PRFODP): The Department of Efficiency Department (DOED) hereby…
All I Want for Christmas
by Craig Wiesner - San Mateo Daily Journal - December 23, 2024 Many of you will remember the song “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth,” written…
Maintaining Our Democracy
by Craig Wiesner - San Mateo Daily Journal - Dec 9, 2024 Taking a course on East Asia Affairs at the State Department in 1985, our class was glued to…
Thankful
San Mateo Daily Journal - November 25th, 2025 - by Craig Wiesner A year ago a friend and I came up with an idea to have an impact on the…
Public Service
by Craig Wiesner - San Mateo Daily Journal - Tuesday November 12, 2024 Ten years ago I was honored to be sworn in to serve on the San Mateo County…
Jennifer or Clark?
by Craig Wiesner - San Mateo Daily Journal - October 28, 2024 I don’t have very many photos of me during my early childhood. As the third kid my parents…
Black Jobs and Safe Dogs
By Craig Wiesner - San Mateo Daily Journal - September 16, 2024 I wrote a bunch of drafts of columns in the days after the disastrous debate between former President…