Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Morning News Round-Up -- 10.14.08: Really Large Pumpkin Edition...

Big pumpkins...really big...Daily Journal, County Times, Half Moon Bay Review

Pumpkin festivals are cool, but what about a Brussel Sprouts Festival?

The Millbrae City Council is planning to purchase "Site 1," right around the Millbrae BART station. Let the Redevelopment begin -- for $1.3 million...

A Measure W forum sounds chaotic, to say the least. If you live in Redwood City -- please read the Measures closely. That was the only consensus found at the forum...let's hope folks read the Measures all the time.

As covered here and elsewhere, the trial of Dr. Ayres is beging delayed because of an illness to the defendent. (More details and history here.)

San Bruno considers action that would require property owners to take care of their run-down properties. (There is a hearing tonight.)

There was (another) robbery in Palo Alto on Monday mid-day. This time near CalTrain and this time with a baseball bat. Careful out there.

The Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce CEO will step down at the end of the month.

As if we don't have enough laws, or problems in Sacramento, Simitian wants you to submit your laws. On the positive side, you and I could probably come up with more thoughtful stuff than most of the folks in Sacramento.

Here is an online nugget from the Almanac website. It seems "Sam Sinnott has manipulated the Menlo Masters email chain..." to support Rick Ciardella, his candidate. The conversation online goes from there. I guess Atherton isn't the only place that personal attacks fly...

The Page Mill Properties versus tenants rights fight in East Palo Alto has taken another turn. This time a potential class action suit against Page Mill Properties -- the suit moved from Santa Clara County to San Mateo County.

Burlingame School District is awarded $675k from the Burlingame Community for Education Foundation. Nice work all around.

I just like this headline (even though the story stinks...): "San Mateo County elder abuse watchdog loses state funding"

Aaron Kinney blogs on http://www.ibabuzz.com about how each of the local legislators did with the Governor's veto pen. Some good...some average. The real question -- why are there so many bills?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dr. Hugh Ridelhuber, one of Dr. Ayres' former partners, and who was slated to testify at the criminal trial, died in a motorcycle crash last week.