The battle between Foster City and the San Mateo-Foster City Elementary School District has been
going on for sometime. There were op-eds back and forth. There were community meetings. There were even some insulting things said (in Watch Dog's estimation) by the City about their lack of responsibility to provide schools. Well, an interesting and promising turn in this battle may be taking place. The Federal government has
awarded $20 million to the School District
to build a new elementary school. Watch Dog would like to place a bet that the Foster City City Council will be at the grand opening of said school in several years taking credit for a great working relationship... Besides the money, another chapter in this saga will be written tonight as the City Council meets to talk
about possible school sites. We guess the excuse that the School District doesn't have the money to build a school seems thin these days...
It has been a bad couple of weeks for the good folks at
Columbus Salame. First a fire. Then an ammonia leak on Friday that landed
8 folks in the hospital and caused a full evacuation of their SSF facility.
We know that Williams Ayres will be tried again for his (alleged) molestation of young, male patients. What we don't know is when that will start. And we
won't know when the retrail will start
until September 11.
While we are on the topic, Watch Dog readers should know that the investigative journalist/author who brought the entire Ayres issue to life, Victoria Balfour,
won a pretty significant award recently. Congrats Ms. Balfour.
If you have thoughts about
San Bruno Mountain and its endangered butterflies, you have until today to
make yourself heard.
Here is a non-shocker: Caltrain is going to
hike parking fees and cut service today at their Board meeting...
The Service Employees International Union may strike in Palo Alto to protest the City of Palo Alto's decision to ask for long-term union concessions. This should be
an interesting time on the Palo Alto City Council as they have a ballot measure in November asking for a new business tax.
U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier faced off with an angry group of opponents who heckled her at a town hall meeting in San Carlos Saturday while she spelled out the necessity for health care reform. She reportedly
kept her cool, despite the sweltering heat. And if you need a reason why we need healthcare reform,
here's one.
Burlingame Police are
looking a man who slid open a ground floor bathroom window of an apartment complex, reached inside with his arm, and made a lewd comment a female who was inside the bathroom at the time. She ran out of the bathroom screaming.
Bay Area News Group -- also known as BANG (seriously) -- has decided to start doing some in-depth reporting.
The news agency has dedicated reporters to track the salaries of public employees are update them continuously. According to the newly-launched database, there were no salary no records found for Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums. No need to include Daly City's
Ms. Hipona in the database, her salary is widely known, at least half of it is...
Burlingame has decided to
lift the City ban on bounce houses so that families can have affordable birthday parties for kids during this recession. "Recession" clearly has a very different meaning in Burlingame. At least Burlingame is tackling the big issues of the day...
Mehdi Morshed, Executive Director of the High Speed Rail Authority assures us that the recent court ruling over the environmental report
won’t slow down the bullet train project. Don't tell the NIMBYs in Menlo Park/Atherton/Palo Alto. They'll think of other lawsuits to file...
More
crashes and
fires Coastside. Oh, and
a mountain lion…
