The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy trickles down to the Peninsula, sucking $216 million from San Mateo County through lost jobs and economic output. No end in sight, by the way -- or recourse...
Who would have thought Latin American cinema in the Bay Area is alive and well... on the Peninsula! Que Bueno!
A foul odor at Hoover Park swimming pool turned out to be a dead body. The pool has been closed and covered since July. Yikes! The decomposing body was found in a Redwood City swimming pool Thursday. The Coroner has identified the body as maintenance worker Gabriel Contreras from Palo Alto.
The historic Fox Theater in Redwood City was supposed to be auctioned off last week, but was put on hold... again. Hmmm... Redwood City Watch Dog Fox Theater. Admit it, it has a nice ring.
Granada Sanitary District candidate Lisa McCaffrey has pulled ahead of incumbent director Leonard Woren, according to a new vote tally posted by the San Mateo County Elections Office Thursday afternoon. It is like Florida in November of 2000...
And the horns are back to being quieter on Caltrain. One small step for Caltrain, one giant leap for NIMBY kind...
San Carlos wants its neighbor (Belmont) to pay more for fire service so it can pay less? Makes perfect sense, except of course you are Belmont. We would love to see a brawl between the San Carlos and Belmont City Councils. Watch Dog's money is in San Carlos, by the way -- Matt Grocott seems pretty tough...
Menlo Park Police arrested three men in connection with a bottle-throwing assault at the British Bankers Club night club Thursday night. Apparently, assault wasn’t enough for them, because they are also accused of robbing a nearby 7-11 store later that night. Well, they had to replace their bottles somehow...
A use-of-force expert testified Thursday that slain East Palo Alto police Officer Richard May was following proper protocol when he chased defendant Alberto Alvarez and struck him with a baton. Perhaps the baton-wielding experts in San Jose should weigh in...
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Morning News Round-Up -- 6.25.09: The Civil Grand Jury Strikes Again...
NOTE: Yesterday's Round-Up got caught in the outbox... check it out for yesterday's Round-Up. Apologies...
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The San Mateo Civil Grand Jury gets off another shot at a local agency. This time, their object of affection was one that Watch Dog covered long ago... with the same contempt. The appointment of Unelected Supervisor Carole Groom. The report goes into extensive detail and comes out with the same point of view that Watch Dog had way back when in December. Could it be that Watch Dog is influencing the Civil Grand Jury?
(One question remains... where is the Garbage Saga Civil Grand Jury Report?)
The Civil Grand Jury Report notwithstanding, the Supervisors approved their (two-year) $1.76 billion budget yesterday. Watch Dog spies tell us that the Civil Grand Jury Anti-Appointment Report gossip was swirling in the room...
The County's budget is certainly taking big hits, so is Belmont's. That's why they are seriously considering taxing hotel visitors to Belmont more. When all else fails, tax those that don't vote for you...
As if public employee pension funds (especially in the City of San Jose) don't have enough problems, a Pension Trustee in San Jose was arrested in San Mateo following a domestic violence call... Patrick G. Skillsky then proceeded to attack the police that were called to the scene. Perhaps he was just really, really upset about all the market losses he didn't see coming... Ironically, the City of San Jose is considering having professionals oversee the Pension Funds rather than appointed, untrained folks. No time like the present...
In other local crime news...
Dr. Ayres' molestation trial continues... William Ayres Watch has the play-by-play... and laments the lack of coverage the trial is receiving. (Not from us...)
The fancy shmancy Olympic (golf) Club in Daly City was found liable for ($10 million) flood damage to the surrounding neighborhood. The Club Chief Groundskeeper did not say, "Heck, we thought the 18 holes were enough drainage to take care of all the rain..."
Menlo Park spends more time studying problems with consultants than fixing problems with solutions... or at least that's how some vocal folks feel...
Even political discontent can't stop Atherton from dipping into reserves to fix their budget gap... Watch Dog is a bit surprised the budget discussion was even put on the agenda, given the recent disagreements in Atherton...
Michelle Durand's Off the Beat in today's Daily Journal goes into the "Way Back Machine" to the beginning of the Burlingame Safeway discussion... May 1, 2003.
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The San Mateo Civil Grand Jury gets off another shot at a local agency. This time, their object of affection was one that Watch Dog covered long ago... with the same contempt. The appointment of Unelected Supervisor Carole Groom. The report goes into extensive detail and comes out with the same point of view that Watch Dog had way back when in December. Could it be that Watch Dog is influencing the Civil Grand Jury?
(One question remains... where is the Garbage Saga Civil Grand Jury Report?)
The Civil Grand Jury Report notwithstanding, the Supervisors approved their (two-year) $1.76 billion budget yesterday. Watch Dog spies tell us that the Civil Grand Jury Anti-Appointment Report gossip was swirling in the room...
The County's budget is certainly taking big hits, so is Belmont's. That's why they are seriously considering taxing hotel visitors to Belmont more. When all else fails, tax those that don't vote for you...
As if public employee pension funds (especially in the City of San Jose) don't have enough problems, a Pension Trustee in San Jose was arrested in San Mateo following a domestic violence call... Patrick G. Skillsky then proceeded to attack the police that were called to the scene. Perhaps he was just really, really upset about all the market losses he didn't see coming... Ironically, the City of San Jose is considering having professionals oversee the Pension Funds rather than appointed, untrained folks. No time like the present...
In other local crime news...
Dr. Ayres' molestation trial continues... William Ayres Watch has the play-by-play... and laments the lack of coverage the trial is receiving. (Not from us...)
The fancy shmancy Olympic (golf) Club in Daly City was found liable for ($10 million) flood damage to the surrounding neighborhood. The Club Chief Groundskeeper did not say, "Heck, we thought the 18 holes were enough drainage to take care of all the rain..."
Menlo Park spends more time studying problems with consultants than fixing problems with solutions... or at least that's how some vocal folks feel...
Even political discontent can't stop Atherton from dipping into reserves to fix their budget gap... Watch Dog is a bit surprised the budget discussion was even put on the agenda, given the recent disagreements in Atherton...
Michelle Durand's Off the Beat in today's Daily Journal goes into the "Way Back Machine" to the beginning of the Burlingame Safeway discussion... May 1, 2003.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Tesla Chronicles: Is there another electric car company that needs space? San Jose will cut you a great deal...
from our friends at Watch Dog Silicon Valley...
Watch Dog called this some time ago. (November 19th to be exact ,with a post titled: "Absolutely certain" Tesla won't go out of business...)
And the saga with Tesla continues today...and gets more serious. But first a review of where we've been:
And for Tesla (or the City of San Jose for that matter), that wasn't even the worst news of the week...You see, Tesla has been hoping/praying/begging for money ($450 million to be exact) from the (possible) bail-out for the Big Three pending in DC. But that doesn't look promising with Republicans in Washington putting up a huge stink about the bailout anyway.
So, as Watch Dog asked previously -- are we nervous that this company that is the centerpiece of the green tech revolution in Silicon Valley going to go out of business before they are really in business?
Watch Dog called this some time ago. (November 19th to be exact ,with a post titled: "Absolutely certain" Tesla won't go out of business...)
And the saga with Tesla continues today...and gets more serious. But first a review of where we've been:
- When San Jose Mayor announced in September that the new Tesla manufacturing plant for their sedan would be in San Jose, everyone cheered. Since then a flurry of bad stories have surfaced and been covered here on Watch Dog.
- Almost immediately after the announcement, there was a second announcement (from Tesla) to say the SJ plant wouldn't open until 2011 at the earliest, pushed from the original 2010 date.
- Then there were a slew of shake-ups at the top of Tesla mixed in with some drama. That's when Watch Dog asked if the San Jose's leaders were nervous. ( Tesla Chronicles: Harry/Paul/Chuck are you guys nervous yet?)
And for Tesla (or the City of San Jose for that matter), that wasn't even the worst news of the week...You see, Tesla has been hoping/praying/begging for money ($450 million to be exact) from the (possible) bail-out for the Big Three pending in DC. But that doesn't look promising with Republicans in Washington putting up a huge stink about the bailout anyway.
So, as Watch Dog asked previously -- are we nervous that this company that is the centerpiece of the green tech revolution in Silicon Valley going to go out of business before they are really in business?
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