Swine flu - Week 2: Michelle Durand addresses the "Mask Hysteria" in her Daily Journal "Off the Beat" column... she also dons a mask in her picture... (That isn't your best look Michelle.)In addition to the Mask Hysteria, today is also the final day to vote on a bunch of local measures (San Carlos School District, Woodside Elementary School District, Jefferson Elementary School District) and the Burlingame storm-drain measure. You should have received your ballots in the mail, but you need to return them in person today...
Here's some (unsurprising) news. The County's in-home healthcare workers are getting a pay cut. Not quite Pay-Cut Gate, but more a sign of the times...
But there is a bright spot related to County health -- the County's Health System (and Supervisor Rich Gordon) announced that the Coastside Clinic in Half Moon Bay will expand pediatric services. Some good news on a rainy day...
Speaking of things with the word "Coastside" in them... the Coastside Farmers' Market will open tomorrow at Rockaway Beach in Pacifica and run through December on Wednesdays between 2:30 and 6:30. Let's hope for sunshine...
Burlingame is mad as hell and they aren't going to take it anymore (from the California High-Speed Rail Authority)... They want a tunnel or nothing at all. According to Councilmember Jerry Deal, "...We don’t need to look at all options. We want a tunnel. We want it out of the way..." I guess the current train tracks are "out of the way" too?
Another unreasonable way to deal with High-Speed Rail emerged in Palo Alto yesterday... Palo Alto Vice Mayor Jack Morton called for the High-Speed Rail Authority to be disbanded and replaced with some other agency, like CalTrain... Really? Perhaps that would have been a stronger argument before the State (and a majority of folks on the Peninsula) voted FOR High-Speed Rail last November...
If you read Watch Dog, you already knew this, the next chapter in the Sequoia Union High School District battle with Everest Charter School may end up in court. From Watch Dog's perspective, this is more about Everest not wanting to be in East Palo Alto than anything else... in other words, not something that is lawsuit-worthy, but that's just one Dog's opinion...
In other (far less litigious) Charter School news, the Magnolia Educational and Science Foundation has won a State Board of Education decision to open 10 Charter Schools up and down California. One will be in San Mateo County and they want to be in East Palo Alto and are looking for space. Take THAT Everest!
Good thing San Mateo County isn't Berkeley. 100 trees are slated to be cut down to make way for CalTrain to seismically repair some bridges. No tree-sitters...yet...
Good thing Palo Alto isn't Berkley either... Six large "stone pine" trees are coming down in Mitchell Park. Again, no tree-sitters...yet...
Bruce at the PP Examiner breaks down the Sharp Park issue... again. Including details from last week's SF meeting.
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