Everyone is belt tightening these days, in spite of that voters in San Mateo and Foster City overwhelmingly approved a levee assessment district. Chalk one up for sensible voters.
San Mateo's Grand Jury ended its year with one last slap at (un)electing County Supervisors and went a step furthur calling for district elections in a letter released yesterday.
The union-management battle is spilling over into BART trains. Meanwhile, the State has sent mediators and a letter from legislators asking for “good-faith” negotiations.
San Carlos residents are asked to weigh in on land use outlined in the weighty general plan. More power to you, over here it’s called a doorstop.
Members of Palo Alto’s city council backed away from a “prevailing wage” requirement for city projects, again. Staff estimates an increase in project costs though public works assistant director Mike Sartor agreed studies didn’t support that belief.
“Residents only” could be the message Palo Alto’s Parks and Recreation Commission sends tonight. The flip side of the message is use for teams that don’t cut players…
A big Watch Dog “Woof” to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the County for $1 million in grants to “safety net” groups around the county.
Steve Jobs home, or pieces of it, may have a savior. Gordon Smythe has stepped up to save “historically significant elements” such as roof tiles, an organ, mailbox, flagpole and tiles.
State Senator Leland Yee lost a biggie when his bill, Fair Sentencing for Youth Act, was shot down. Yee has a week to convince the Assembly’s Public Safety committee that locking up and throwing away the key on kids wasn’t the voters shining moment.
HopeLab is one of President Obama’s fav non-profits as an example of “social innovation” with their kid friendly (exercise laden) video games…
When you head into your favorite fast food joint for lunch (and breakfast and dinner) today don’t be surprised to see the depressing news on the chubby factor.
The little city that could… Atherton lands, again, and again, in the news…
- Censorship. The accusation comes from Councilmember Elizabeth Lewis as colleagues lay on rules on making it more difficult get stuff on the agenda. Fretting items on the council’s agenda could be “very dangerous,” Councilmember Jim Dobbie supported the new rules. Right, because spirited public discourse is scary.
- Spanked for overcharging residents for business license taxes, Atherton heads into the red to payback the overcharged. Email from residents reminds Watch Dog that the budget hit should have landed earlier but a councilmember managed to delay the red ink while bolstering their campaign rhetoric…
- Today should mark the end of the ongoing assault/battery drama for Atherton’s public works supervisor Troy Henderson. On the stand Henderson says it was all a set-up...
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