Friday, March 26, 2010

Morning News Round-Up -- 3.26.10: Home/Loan Gate in Atherton...

Home/Loan Gate in Atherton continues... remember, Councilmember Charles Marsala asked for (and was denied) a $500,000 loan from a resident who had a pending lawsuit with the Town of Atherton -- and then Marsala voted against a citizens police oversight commission that the person suing Atheron wanted... The person suing Atherton claims that Marsala voted against the commission because the loan didn't come through. Coincidentally (?) there are also rumors swirling that Marsala doesn't live in Atherton -- heck, without a gigantic loan, who could? Later today, there will be a special meeting about the Marsala residency issue at 2 p.m. If you have absolutely nothing going on in your life on a Friday afternoon, perhaps you should stop by the meeting and then send Watch Dog an email about the outcome... Whatever the outcome of that meeting, Watch Dog predicts that there may be an open seat on the Atherton Council before too long...

We aren't going to take any credit for this Editorial in the Daily Journal, but certainly we here at Watch Dog have also been critical of Redwood City spending money on a mining-loving PR firm to fight the idea of a new County jail in their community...

Your favorite very local public station will stay open... KCSM will keep broadcasting for a little bit longer at least.

Usually when we think of outsourcing, we think China and India, but San Carlos may outsource some functions (police/fire) to San Mateo...

Pacifica Riptide is pushing some community activism in an effort to restart "greenwaste" drop off in Pacifica... Will the no-bid garbage company in Pacifica listen?

Our new friends at the Burlingame Voice actually pick up and read the Daily Post... they have a story about possible embezzlement at a Burlingame school...

As a reminder, the Daily Post does not post news on their ugly website, instead we learn this:
"You won't find any news on this site. Giving away news online is a dumb way to do business. News is valuable. We put our news in print. The news creates demand for our paper, and increased readership makes our ads more effective than advertising in any other medium."

Plus, does anyone really think that people are getting their news online?: Online newspapers enjoy double-digit year-over-year growth, reaching one out of four internet users, according to Nielsen/Netratings... That's from 2005, get with it.

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