Friday, April 24, 2009

Morning News Round-Up -- 4.24.09: An Anti-Climactic End to the Garbage Saga?...say it ain't so...

Watch Dog may have to find a new obsession other than the Garbage Saga...it looks like the Saga may be coming to a slow (and anti-climactic) ending. The South Bayside Waste Management Authority Board approved the recycling company yesterday to run the facility on Shoreway in San Carlos. The Saga does have one last chapter, and it could be big. The Civil Grand Jury is due to report on the contract process -- thanks to Assemblymember Jerry Hill's Sacramento going away present. That report is sure to be a doozy... In other garbage news, the new recycling company may be required to use folks from the County's Vocational Rehabilitation Services to sort recycling...

200 NIMBYs had their time yesterday with Assemblymember Jerry Hill as he hosted a High-Speed Rail Town Hall in Belmont. To Tunnel or Not to Tunnel, that is the question...

PP Examiner gets back into the blogging game with a real gem. Bruce gets an op-ed from the Anti-Shark Park Golf Course folks, but then rips the op-ed to shreds in his own comments. (Not to mention that San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi has probably never been to Pacifica...)

What Watch Dog thought was a collaborative effort between the San Mateo-Foster City Elementary School District and the City of Foster City has turned into an Us versus Them inter-governmental squabble. Unbelievably, Foster City Mayor John Kiramis would like the School District to look at increasing class-sizes from 20 to 30 students in Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades. That's the political and policy equivalent of a City letting go 50% of its police officers and fire fighters. Good solution Mayor Kiramis...because the School District is in a strong financial position already...

The San Mateo-Foster City Elementary School District is not alone in their capacity problems. The San Carlos Elementary School District is getting a whole bunch more Kindergartners...

The Governor/Terminator has offered a $25,000 reward for information about the murder of a TGI Friday's employee last year in San Mateo.

Parking + Caltrain = Pain. This equation might change a little...

Here is something you don't read much about these days...new housing developments. In San Carlos, the City Council may decide Monday night to approve annexation part of unincorporated Devonshire Canyon for the construction of...5 homes.

Speaking of building homes...Citizens of Woodside are covering Apple's Steve Jobs' attempt to build a new home on the Jackling Estate. Perhaps he wants to build an enormous, but eco-friendly, mansion like the Chief Googler does in Palo Alto...

The next chapter in Stanford development is being written right now. Recently, Stanford gave up Mall expansion plans in order to focus on hospital expansion and other campus efforts. But the City of Palo Alto is not done complaining/micromanaging what happens at Stanford. Palo Alto wants Stanford to connect any new development with an "urban village," whatever that is...

Pacifica Riptide continues to update the endorsement race for Measure D, Pacifica's sales tax hike measure: Pacifica School District Board - Support, San Mateo County Labor Council - Support.

Finally, we wrote about this issue previously: In Pacifica, a family (which happened to be lesbian couple with children) was about to be ripped apart by the Federal government as one of the registered domestic partners was set to be deported for overstaying her visa. Senator Feinstein stepped in and is now playing the hero role. (We have to wonder how this worked its way through D.C. When the story was written about originally, Congresswoman Jackie Speier got a three-week stay for the deportation, now Feinstein is in the lead role...I guess the spotlight is only so big, especially when you (Senator Feinstain) are trying to divert attention from a growing controversy...very gracious Congresswoman Speier.)

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