Morning News Round-Up -- 1.6.10: Tanforan Shopping Spree...

This is great: a flight attendant accused of using her roomate's credit card for a shopping spree at Tanforan pleaded no contest yesterday and will spend 90 days in jail. Was all that stuff from Sears and Target really worth 90 days in the hole? Ask yourself this: If you are going to steal a credit card and use it, would your first stop be Tanforan?

The Second Harvest Food Bank will be delivering/collecting greens green... with a new hybrid fleet.

And while we are talking about saving the environment: Jon Mays gets in on the action in his Editorial in today's Daily Journal. And he is pissed.

You know that apartment complex in Pacifica that is about to topple into the Pacific? Well, engineers have a few plans about how to put the buildings on more solid ground -- but none of those ideas are cheap or even close to it...

If you live in Menlo Park, you may have noticed that the library parking lot is getting a little reconfiguring/facelift work done. (Facelifts in Menlo Park, say it ain't so...) Nothing gets folks riled up in MP like parking, so we'll monitor the reaction closely. Expect a well-attended/angry town hall-type meeting when the work is complete about how the old parking lot was better...

A robber hit the Granada Sanitary District over the holidays stealing computer stuff and cash... which makes one wonder -- why would their be cash laying around in the GSD headquarters? In any event, it seems like the person who did it, "...may have known what they were looking for..." according to Sheriff's Lt. Ken Jones... Hmmm, an inside job at GSD.

Morning News Round-Up -- 12.1.09: Leave your guns at home Bill...

This is a crazy story: On Sunday night a Redwood City man, in an attempt to protect his family, grabbed his gun to chase away intruders. He did chase them off his property, but then he also took his gun (wearing only his underwear) and got in his car and chased the two dudes by car. Apparently the two would-be intruders called the police to report a crazy guy in his underwear carrying a gun was chasing their car down the street... The gun-wielding, family-protector may get charged with brandishing a weapon. (But not public indecency?)

If that story wasn't today's top story, this would have been: Remember a while back when William Ayre's new defense attorney was trying to get the first jury's contact information... well, that request was denied. (Much to the delight of those first jurors, no doubt...) Of course William Ayres Watch has the details too.

San Mateo decided to keep a public golf course publicly run and run a courier service for itself in order to save money. $560,000 in fact... That savings can help pay for an Assistant City Manager which the Council has agreed to hire as well...

In other City government news: Rich Cline will become the new Mayor of Menlo Park tonight... good night and good luck!

Here is a (very) local issue on the County's docket today: whether or not to close Los Banos Avenue between Park Avenue and Ocean Blvd in Seal Cove...

Michelle Durand (Daily Journal) goes 'rouge' about Sarah Palin going 'rogue'... well played
Ms. Durand, well played...

Don't drive drunk, whoever you are. Even if your car is full of (off-duty) police officers and you are a former officer, you are (hopefully) going to do some time... like this guy. We hear they like police in jail...

The recount that wasn't... Lisa McCaffrey who had called for a recount in the Granada Sanitary District election because her opponent won by 10 votes, called off the recount. That stinks... Kevin Spacey and Al Gore wanted to make sure every vote was counted...