Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Morning News Round-Up -- 2.18.09: The Sacramento Chaos Edition...

In the early days of Watch Dog, we wrote about the plans for the Burlingame Safeway. It has been in the works for more than 5 years -- but it looks like the plans may now be happening on a fast-track. (If 5+ years can be considered 'fast track'.)

The guy being charged with a string of robberies in the County and the sexual assault of a gas station employee in San Bruno is going to be held without bail for now. He could face the rest of his life in prison as he faces charges for his crime spree...

San Mateo-Foster City Elementary School District is growing pretty rapidly, which is putting pressure on the District to house an increasing student population. At a Foster City parents' meeting a while back, folks said they want/needed a new school. It looks like the District listened. The Board will consider how to take care of the increasing enrollment tonight...

Pacifica's Calera Creek Waste Water Recycling Plant was recently found in violation of several EPA regulations. Watch Dog gagged a bit while reading this: "...The Calera Creek Water Recycling Plant will have to clean up its act after sending more than 230 tons of treated human effluent with dangerously high bacteria levels to fertilize farms in California..." Pacifica Riptide titled their post on the subject "The Sludge Report"...those folks are good...

Palo Alto (and other Peninsula) residents let the California High-Speed Rail Authority know what they thought of the really fast train coming through their back yards...and it wasn't pretty...

Falling property values mean your home may be due a reassessment...but beware, says County Assessor Warren Slocum, there are a bunch of fraudulent companies trying to screw you by saying they can get your property taxes down. Slocum (presumably) is not trying to screw you...so check out his website for more details...

Call it dealing with the Great Recession or call it dealing with a massive ($18 million) legal settlement due a developer, Half Moon Bay is cutting costs...the Interim City Manager announced another $1.75 million in cost-saving (personnel cuts?) measures yesterday...

Atherton's first official Gubenatorial candidate for 2010 made her foray into political life yesterday criticizing Sacramento, the budget process, etc., etc. It sounds like she is using Schwarzenegger's talking points from Jay Leno...

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