Morning News Round-up --9.16.09: Deep Thoughts by Quentin Kopp

A College of San Mateo student called police after she saw a college football player take what looked like a gun from his glove compartment and put it in his waist band. Police responded only to find out it was a toy gun. Some people never outgrow those things.

The governor supports alternative energy, not parks.

An East Palo Alto woman accidentally struck and killed her 14-month-old niece while backing out of a driveway. Tragic.

Here is something you should know: San Mateo City Council candidates support taxes to deal with the city’s declining budget.

A Redwood City man was hit and killed by a southbound commuter train as he sat in his car.

Shrinking budgets = declining test scores for San Mateo County schools.

Councilmember Barbara Pierce pulled rank and got a DUI checkpoint canceled in July. Hmmm.

Michael Brownrigg rocks the boat at Burlingame city hall. Finally!

And…deep thoughts by Quentin Kopp: “The 2008 salient event in the march to confer high-speed rail upon Californians, consistent with the type of electrically-powered, almost noiseless, swift, safe, supremely-comfortable transportations Asians and Europeans have used for nearly 45 years, was the Nov. 4 passage of Proposition 1A, the $9 billion financial foundation for the project’s first phase from San Francisco to Anaheim, through San Jose, the Central Valley and downtown Los Angeles.”