Morning News Round-Up -- 6.3.09: A good news/bad news type of day...

Here is a good news, bad news story, depending on your point of view. Good news if you need to take summer school in San Mateo Union High School, that's because the bad news is that the summer school is cut because of bad budget times in San Mateo Union High School.

Another good news, bad news story, this time from Caltrain. The good news is that weekend service will continued, but the bad news is that fairs are going up and some trains are getting cut mid-week.

And this one is just bad news... the Redwood City Elementary School District had a parcel tax on the ballot earlier this week. It lost. Expect big cuts in Redwood City Elementary School District.

The bad news: a man was car-jacked, robbed, and beaten in Redwood City. The good news: six folks were arrested in connection to this incident.

This issue is a long-time coming, the Petaluma teacher that was set up by his students to meet a "teenage" girl, was sentenced to two years in State prison.

Ironically, State prisons were in the news yesterday, and not in a good way. State parks and State beaches were also in the news, not in a good way. Prisons, parks, and beaches are on the chopping block because the Governor didn't leave any State stone unturned yesterday in a 12 minute speech...

Menlo Park is about to have a battle about parking spaces at MP's Civic Center area. A new gymnasium will make the parking more crowded, meaning library patrons will have trouble getting a space... expect this battle to continue. Folks love their parking spaces in MP, if you don't believe Watch Dog, we can only assume you haven't been grabbing an outside coffee in MP when a parking space battle erupts...

Developer David Bohannon is doing outreach meetings for his Menlo Park hotel-office project. Our guess is the outreach meetings will be "on-message" -- because the last time we wrote about this, Bohannon was doing polling.

The San Francisco Chronicle must read Watch Dog... because they just wrote a story about the Half Moon Bay Bail-Out Bill... welcome to the story Mr./Ms. Chronicle...