July 24, 2009
Morning News Round-Up — 7.24.09: What would you do with hundreds of Chuck E. Cheese tokens?
There is now an unfortunate update to a fire that occurred yesterday morning. The Columbus Salame plant burned down.
The NIMBYs that were getting their hand-scribbled notes together for the Eshoo/ Simitian High-Speed Rail community meeting on Saturday will have to file those notes away for a while. Eshoo pulled out of Saturday’s meeting and will reschedule. She has to be in DC for votes — something about a healthcare bill… (But if you must complain about something to someone, Assemblymember Jerry Hill will be hosting “sidewalk office hours” at the Coastside Farmers Market on Saturday…)
Speaking of Eshoo and healthcare… A special OpEd in the Mercury News criticizes Congresswoman Eshoo for wanting to protect the biotech industry a bit too much in the pending healthcare bill. (The OpEd is written by biotech/ pharmaceutical industry watchdogs…)
If it is Friday, it is (apparently) San Mateo County crime day:
- A robbery at Chuck E. Cheese was an inside job and the insiders are going to prison… could you be any dumber? Robbing Chuck E. Cheese? What are you going to do with all those tokens?
- A pervert who was at a job fair at Sequoia High School and took pictures of a kid in a bathroom is out of jail for a bit, pending appeal…
- A different pervert who (allegedly) tried to expose himself to a woman in San Carlos is the subject of a police investigation in San Carlos…
- A fire at a San Bruno youth center for abused kids was burned Wednesday and it is now being called arson…
And here are your “State budget is screwing local government” stories for the day:
- Dropping revenues mean that SSF voters will (officially) decide on a hotel tax hike this November…
- Bro… the proposed skate park that is supposed to be part of Foster City’s teen center was put on hold last night.
- Coastside public agencies are feeling the pinch too…
A local project that is not on hold, thanks to funding from the County and the Feds, is a project to house the homeless in Redwood City. The City just purchased a 23-unit apartment complex for $2.4 million.
Finally… This is always fun: It is Festa Italiana in San Mateo this weekend. Yum. (An Editorial in the Daily Journal provides many more ideas for your weekend fun after a hella depressing first couple of paragraphs…)