Get your coffee, this is going to be a long one...
Before we begin, be careful out there folks. Especially coastside readers. The Half Moon Bay City Hall was (slightly) damaged, but the storm is still brewing. Stay safe y'all.
It is finally the political season locally, which usually means an uptick in stories about local races and a general influx of mud-slinging in Watch Dog's email-box. No mud today, but a few local stories about political races to come:
Three folks are lining up to replace Assemblymember Ira Ruskin (as he prepares for bigger things?). Supervisor Rich Gordon, venture capitalist Josh Becker, and Palo Alto City Councilmember Yoriko Kishimoto are lined up. (Marc Berman and Kai Stinchcombe were once in the race too, but they dropped out to support Josh Becker.) This will be a local battle of the highest order and, frankly, Watch Dog can't wait. (Remember candidates and political hacks our email is watchdogsanmateo@gmail.com.)
Unelected Supervisor Carole Groom is getting a challenger in her previously free-ride into trying to get elected into the office she holds for the first time... fortunately for Groom, the dude running against her is a cabinet maker, not a seasoned politician. Why is Danial Duane Kaul running? Well, according to the Daily News, because he is against the County's, "...idiotic council members and idiotic supervisors..." Mr. Kaul, please write a piece about all your views for Watch Dog and we will run it, unedited... honestly.
Burlingame's The Sherman floating restaurant faces $60,000 in fines for spilling hazmats into the Bay. (But not being fined for putting hazmats on people's plates? Just kidding.) The place is shut down for the time being.
This may be the most obvious headline ever: East Palo Alto Mayor wants to increase city coffers. To the County Times headline editor: Is there a Mayor in the world that wants to do anything different than that?
There is finally some news coming out of the La Honda-Pescadero Unified School District that doesn't involve fiscal mismanagement or retiring while under the gun: the Pescadero High School Principal will be the next Superintendent -- that's good. They are also seeking a new business services director -- that makes sense given the District's history.
Riptide wants you, and presumably everyone else in the County, to take action to save San Bruno Mountain... and while they are on the land-use topic... Riptide is concerned (and has back-up) that Pacifica will become the "Daly City" on the Coast... and that is definately NOT a compliment to Daly City.
Cell phone reception may be getting a bit worse in San Carlos because officials are concerned about noise complaints stemming from the ground-mounted equipment attached to the boxes... wait until San Carlos officials start hearing complaints about the bad cell service... then what?
Yesterday was Monday and Monday is Sue Lempert's day in the Daily Journal. She goes after a certain daily newspaper on the Peninsula and calls their reporting "Yellow Journalism"...
The Dalai Lama is coming to the Ravenswood School District in October. We love His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, but we also don't want the visit to drain resources (security, transportation, staffing) to put a financial burden on the School District. Watch Dog will be watching...
Someone (or someones) apparently set fire to the area of Capuchino High School in San Bruno that is under construction on Sunday night. $25,000 worth of damage was apparently done. Arson investigators are looking into it... Somehow the senior prank at M-A last year seems so much more innocent.
Phew... have a good day folks.
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