If you read Watch Dog or PP Examiner or the Palo Alto Weekly or the Almanac, then this won't come as a surprise...Supervisor Rich Gordon is running for State Assembly next year. He made it official yesterday. Watch Dog can't wait for this race. Gordon is officially in. Palo Alto's Yoriko Kishimoto and Community College District Trustee Hal Plotkin (also from Palo Alto) are in the race as well. Supervisor Rose Jacobs Gibson is unofficially in the race at this point too. This is going to be a good one...As discussed previously, the District is split pretty evenly between San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties -- making this a double the pleasure double the fun type of race for the Watch Dog Network...
San Carlos Elementary School District got an unexpected surprise recently...nearly 70 more kindergartners signed up for next year's school year than expected. Expecting about 333, just over 400 little ones want into the Charter School district.
And while San Carlos Elementary School District is dealing with a rush of Kindergartners, the San Mateo-Foster City School District is working with the City of Foster City to find land and build some new facilities for the future influx of students...
The Daily Journal's Michelle Durand hasn't left yet...perhaps she wants to take Watch Dog up on our offer for coffee? She is Off the Beat today and writing about plastic bag bans (and pornography and smoking)...
Watch Dog remembers this story fondly. Here is what (allegedly) happened: An employee at an Indian restaurant (Mr. Singh) was ripping people's credit card numbers, Mr. Singh gave the credit card numbers to a middle man (Mr. Barkley), and Mr. Barkley would bring them to Safeway to buy stuff from Mrs. Singh, who worked there. Mr. Barkley just pleaded not guilty yesterday on 12 felony counts...
Dave Bohannon is a developer who has land and wants to build a big project in Menlo Park. To gauge support for his project, Mr. Bohannon conducted a poll of Menlo Park residents to see if they would support his $300 million plan. Unfortunately for Mr. Bohannon, news of the poll leaked out a while ago and now Menlo Park officials are forced to let everyone know that they will not give much credence to the poll results. That's an expensive oops for Mr. Bohannon...
The County Times' John Horgan gives us the 411 on the hugely popular Adult Education programs in the County and how budget cuts are having a major (negative) impact.
Investigators are still looking into what caused the big Peet's fire in downtown Menlo Park on Tuesday morning. One thing we all know is that it may take months for the affected stores (Peet's and Calla boutique) to reopen...
You have got to admire Rod Diridon. He loves walking into the lion's den to pitch High-Speed Rail. He was at it once again in Palo Alto at the Palo Alto Rotary Club meeting at Ming's. His speech came just as Palo Alto is asking the High-Speed Rail Authority to study underground tracks through the Peninsula...a dollar short and day late?
Former Menlo Park Mayor Lee Duboc is a thorn in the side of the Menlo Park City Council...perhaps that's why she wasn't invited to a breakfast with current and former Mayors and Councilmembers? Keep at it Lee, we like reading your stuff...
It looks like the County of San Mateo was helping keep the Coastside Family Medical Center afloat for a while before its eventual closure this month. The clinic was asking for more taxpayer money and the County just couldn't stomach it...
As if Half Moon Bay didn't have enough bad news these days (Coastside Family Medical closing, $18 million owed to a developer, cutting City employees, Coastside School District taking hits) Moon News will close its doors in April...
It is good to know that someone is watching the Woodside COWncil these days...check out Citizens of Woodside for a pun-filled round-up...
Finally, there is a story today in the Almanac with the headline: Hundreds apply for Charter Schools. Watch Dog is working on a bit about this story, thanks to some interested Watch Dogs following this closely...if you have any information about Everest/Summit or have a view, email me...
Thursday, March 19, 2009
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