Morning News Round-Up -- 5.26.10: 4,500 homes, 10,000 cars...

4,500 new homes in Brisbane? That's part of Universal Paragon Corporation's plans for the Brisbane Baylands unveiled last night to the Brisbane City Council. That should be great for traffic on 101...

Speaking of great for traffic... Check out this Almanac (hysterical) headline: Stanford medical facilities expansion could bring 10,000 more vehicle trips per day to the area. If they are that worried about car traffic, shouldn't they support High-Speed Rail? We're just saying...

It takes a special kind of asshole to "ransack" a school... but it happened again at James Flood Magnet School in East Palo Alto for the second time in a year.

It looks like Burlingame School District may buy, renovate, and eventually reopen the long-closed (former Buddhist center) Hoover Elementary School on Summit drive.

While we're there: the Burlingame Voice has a little perspective on the red-light cameras in Burlingame...

This should surprise absolutely nobody... the City of Belmont needs to dip into reserves to balance the budget next year. So does Watch Dog...

Jon Mays at the Daily Journal hearts the idea of a San Mateo/Foster City Fire Department...

A bit of really good news today: a bigger, better Ron Robinson Senior Care Center at the San Mateo Medical Center will reopen today...

Today is Yoriko Kishimoto's turn for a Will Oremus profile... Unfortunately for her, the Mercury News endorsed Rich Gordon today...

We mentioned earlier this week that we can't resist pointing out imperfections with the online Merc... we are clearly wildly immature. We wouldn't argue agains that... (There is a story linked here too...)

Morning News Round-Up -- 3.4.09: The Life of the Wealthy and Influential...

The yearly ritual of pink slips to teachers starts next week. There are generally more pink slips given out than layoffs forthcoming, but the idea of teachers getting pink slips underlines how screwed up California is. Sorry Terminator Schwarzenegger, it's true...The California Teachers Association is marking the day of reckoning with their own website: Pink Friday 09.

One of the inherent inequities in California schools is that wealthier communities are able to privately fundraise while less-well-off Districts struggle in that department. On this front, the Partners in Education organization in Palo Alto is giving the Palo Alto Unified School District a check for $2.57 million this week...

In Belmont, there is a "Chronic flasher on the loose." The headline pretty much says it all...except that he also robbed a woman in a residential parking garage.

Easy come, easy go for Dr. Sang-Ick Chang, the CEO of the San Mateo Medical Center after only 18 months at the helm. While there is PR explanation why he is leaving to go take a lesser post as Chief Medical Offier at the Alameda County Medical Center...but the real reason is hinted at in the story: the County consolidated much of its healthcare functions last year and added a layer of bureaucracy over Dr. Chang's head. Instead of reporting directly to the County Manager, the new set up had Change reporting to Jean Fraser, who reported directly to the County Manager...hence, Change left.

Tonight, the Redwood City Elementary School Distict may/will put a $91 parcel tax measure on the ballot for June. Here is some free campaign help to get this passed: The State is screwed up. They are taking our money. We need more... (You are welcome...)

It is possible that Watch Dog's computer is temporarily screwed up, but it doesn't seem like the Daily Journal has any opinion today. Perhaps the rain has temporarily washed away Jon Mays' edge...

Cool (or scary) new x-ray technology is being rolled out at SFO. The TV version of the story was way cooler than the written version...



Foster City is getting some plastic surgery...sort of. They are replacing some grass fields with some artificial turf. Lest you think this is a move that could be conflict-free -- check out this story from Watch Dog Silicon Valley...

And in some blog news:

• The Palo Alto Weekly is (finally?) giving us all a blogger that (perhaps?) will update more regularly than Jay Thorwaldson...Keith Schuman is a Palo Alto dude who took off when the economy tanked and will be traveling (and blogging) around the world. Stay tuned. We'll track how often he posts...(Of note: Thorwaldson's blog has actually left the Weekly's homepage.)
• PP Examiner gives another look to the 21st Assembly District race with the new addition of Palo Alto's Yoriko Kishimoto. While not giving Watch Dog credit, the PP Examiner does admit that more voters will come from the Santa Clara County section of the District rather than San Mateo -- which is different than PP's first post on this issue. Watch Dog wrote about that same issue a while ago...The PP Examiner also changed its look a bit.
  

And from the Wealthy/Local Influential Folks File...

• A developer wants to build an office/hotel complex at the intersection of Marsh Road and 101 in eastern Menlo Park. How do we know? Well, it was reported in the Almanac. How does the Almanac know? Because the developer, David Bohannon, did a poll and folks got a bit freaked out...
• Speaking of local developers...Half Moon Bay is still trying to figure out how/if to issue a bond to pay its ($18 million) legal settlement to Chop Keenan...
• The advantages of being a Gubernatorial candidate from Atherton...Meg Whitman made a $1,000,000 contribution to her own campaign yesterday. "Writing that check is so much easier than having those pesky fundraisers," Whitman didn't say. "My hand did get tired from writing zeros, however..."