Just as the financial world comes to a complete collapse and local governments are pinching pennies (and taxing residents) the Garbage Saga takes another (very) expensive turn. The magic number of 8 cities (and agencies) has been reached to finance the $65 million "...glorified trash can..." Watch Dog still anxiously awaits the Civil Grand Jury report about how the entire Garbage Saga was handled by the South Bayside Waste Management Authority...
Just when the County is getting ready to get some Federal stimulus money (the Feds giveth) -- the County will have to pay up $6.8 million to the Feds for inflating the bed count at the public hospital (the Feds taketh away)...nothing fraudulent was (apparently) done...
Speaking of hospitals and money...a former employee of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health pleaded no contest to embezzling over $350K from the Foundation...stealing from sick kids -- she'll be a real popular person in prison...
One of Jerry Hill's 22 bills he introduced in his first 100 days in office is an effort to help off-track betting facilities make more money... This includes the San Mateo County Event Center OTB...
A big shake up in the local (and worldwide) biotech/pharma industry. Genentech and Roche are getting married...
There are no suspects in the bomb-scare from Palo Alto on Tuesday near the Jewish day school...
The California High Speed Rail Authority is strapped for cash...perhaps because they have been spending every waking hour coddling the NIMBYs in Menlo Park, Atherton, and Palo Alto...that's expensive work...
Half Moon Bay's Cabrillo Unified School District Board is looking at trimming $840K from its budget...just in time for today's Pink Friday...
A man wandered onto 280 yesterday and was struck and killed...yikes...
The PP Examiner gets back into the blogosphere to chime in on the shenanigans in Daly City with the City Clerk's 50% pay cut...welcome back PP...
Friday, March 13, 2009
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