Thursday, October 29, 2009

Morning News Round-Up -- 10.29.09: No Bay Bridge... still

Expect a barage of fluffy PR from the California High-Speed Rail Authority locally soon. They just issued a $9 million PR contract to a big-time PR firm based in Sacramento. Ogilvy Public Relations will soon be calling on Peninsula NIMBYs to explain the benefits of High-Speed Rail. Let me provide some free advice to Ogilvy -- don't spend too much time in Menlo Park or Atherton -- there is no changing these NIMBYs' minds...

Perhaps the good folks that run the Bay Bridge should invest in some PR help. That big bridge that connects everything to everything in Northern California is still not open... in case you haven't heard.

While you are waiting for the Bay Bridge to reopen -- why don't you head over to the new Trader Joe's in San Mateo... actually, don't go today, but head there tomorrow when they open.

While Pacifica gets green kudos this week for banning Styrofoam, they are getting slapped for dumping sewage into the Pacific in January 2008. A $2.3 million fine will be levied by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board -- the government agency with the longest name imaginable...

Congresswoman Anna Eshoo will be hosting a telephone town hall tonight for Coastside residents only to talk about healthcare. Watch Dog wishes we could be on that call and report back to all of you. If you are on the call, take good notes and shoot them our way...

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