In the era of consolidation in San Mateo County, Belmont already broke up with San Carlos and their joint fire department and now Belmont want to stay single… After an emotional break-up, that seems to make good sense.
Speaking of bad news… The Half Moon Bay Review is redoing its website and is apparently down today. Here’s what the site says this morning:
While we’re coastside, the Chronicle seems to remember that there is life south of San Francisco and have a profile of Pescadero High School for some reason…
The outcome of last week’s Save Caltrain Summit? ”Merge transit agencies…” We don’t know if that will save $30,000,000, but it sounds like a good start…
The Merc Editorial Board is very, very, very focused on jobs (apparently)… if you went to their website this morning, you’ll see an Editorial about job creation being a top priority for reGovernor Brown, Redevelopment being important to local job creation, and how job creation should be the House of Representatives’ top priority (not abortion)…
Ironically, Pete Campbell (on San Jose Inside) says that “Kids should be San Jose’s top priority“… Perhaps Mr. Campbell should read the Merc, obviously the top priority should be jobs… (Just kidding, Campbell is talking about San Jose Unified cutting adult education.)
Cue the violins… From the Palo Alto Weekly: Palo Alto’s smaller staff struggles with workload. In other news, some people don’t have jobs. We’ll see what Mayor Sid Esponisa has to say at his State of the City…
San Jose Councilmember Pete Constant seems to be at odds with his former Police Officers’ Association brethren. Over the weekend he tweeted this: ”I’m at SJ’s 3rd Annual Crime & Gang Prevention Summit at the 7 Trees Community Center. Residents leading the way to reduce violence!” But Protect San Jose says that “…talk shops do nothing to confront the actual gang related violence…”
Today, the Mercury News Editorial Board underscores its previous conviction that theTeam San Jose contract needs to go out for bid. That’s because yesterday we learned that the Team San Jose folks won’t release information about former CEO Dan Fenton’s severance package… All of this makes our tweet from yesterday even funnier (at least in our humble opinion):
Also on Inside, The Fly looks at how “Rosen Rocks the Boat” in the DA’s office. (One note to Inside: Rosen was elected in June and it was very, very close…)
Luther Burbank School District is back in the news again… and it is really a continuation of the same saga that plagued the District previously. The ousted Superintendent is now back as a consultant to the board and has a key to the District’s offices. You have to read this full story to believe what is going on over there. And remember, this school district has exactly one school…
Yesterday, Protect provided a “Salute to the Fallen” to honor Gordon Silva and Gene Simpson who died in the line of duty on January 20, 1989.
Finally, yesterday Mission City Lantern said that we have “the finger on the pulse of the community“… We like to think so and James makes us blush… Thank you and have a good weekend…
Caltrain is in deep shit, about $30,000,000 worth of it… There’s an effort to save it, of course, but cuts are on the way. Perhaps Dave Pine could dip into his campaign stash and help out?
Atherton Polices’ action in arresting John Buckheit were “lawful and proper” we learned yesterday… the saga continues. Does anyone (aside from John Buckheit) still care about this?
In Half Moon Bay they are getting plans together to outsource some city services to save money, including police…
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Something you are certain to hear about more: Senator Leland Yee teed off on Rush Limbaugh’s anti-Chinese tirade yesterday. Yee is right to be pissed, but there is not an open microphone Yee doesn’t want to stand in front of as he runs for Mayor of San Francisco… Here’s what Yee is talking about (via Media Matters):
You may already know this, but the Golden Gate National Recreation Area plans to ban dogs from some of their parks, including Rancho Corral de Tierra. Coastsider has some details about a (fruitless) protest meeting on Saturday…
Yesterday, there was a story in San Mateo County that talked about public employee costs to cities tripling in the last decade… Perhaps the City of San Jose City Council read that story, because they will start talking about changing the seniority-based layoff systems. This seems like pretty radical stuff that Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio wants the Council to talk about, so we’ll see what happens.
The Merc Editorial page editors really, really want you to read Ruben Navarrette’s piece… an opinion so nice they printed it (on their homepage) twice.
There has been a lot written about the recent uptick in violence in San Jose, especially by the good folks at Protect San Jose. On Protect, the Mayor is taking a lot of heat for his stance on the Police Department and cutting costs. Now, San Jose Inside has their own piece about SJPOA/Mayor relationship, of interest is the Mayor’s recent visit to a station, where he was described as being “rude“…
There is a very interesting ad that keeps popping up on the Merc’s website with the headline: ”What public agency has $120,000,000 budget and no oversight?” To find out more, check out our post from yesterday…
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Reading the Mercury News online is a lot more interesting today if you are (un)lucky enough to have this scroll-over advertisement come down into your field of view. It seems SEIU Local 521 is really, really pissed at the Santa Clara County Superior Court. What’s the beef all about? Anyone know?…
The Daily Fetch has been tweeting since our new design launched months ago, but we think we’ll start tweeting a lot more now, starting yesterday. If you want to get in on the breaking (takes on the) news, you can follow us on Twitter or become our friend on Facebook… same great feed, two different companies (run by soon-to-be billionaires…) To give you a taste of what you missed, here are yesterday’s tweets (and links)…
Anti-San Jose A’s folks now have an event to rally around. The SJ-hating World Champ trophy is coming to town on 2/1 http://fb.me/NSk2lInj
Team San Jose is doing its best to reshape their image (in an effort to keep their contract). Their press release: http://bit.ly/hlXY6b
6 homicides in SJ in 17 days. Are the 2 finalists for SJPD Chief’s job sure they want it? http://thedailyfetch.com, and…
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From San Bruno: The California Public Utilities Commission is taking its sweet time turning over documents that were requested by local prosecutors months ago. Steve Wagstaffe has been a very, very busy man during his first few weeks in office…
More news on the County’s proposal to take over San Carlos’ fire services… the movement to get a more regional fire service (with more cities than just San Carlos) seems to be underway, but will take a little more of the County’s time.
There is a burgeoning “Save Caltrain” movement, which is ironic, given that High-Speed Rail might actually help Caltrain and folks are trying to get rid of it…
The Daily Fetch has been tweeting since our new design launched months ago, but we think we’ll start tweeting a lot more now, starting yesterday. If you want to get in on the breaking (takes on the) news, you can follow us on Twitter or become our friend on Facebook… same great feed, two different companies (run by soon-to-be billionaires…) To give you a taste of what you missed, here are yesterday’s tweets (and links)…
Anti-San Jose A’s folks now have an event to rally around. The SJ-hating World Champ trophy is coming to town on 2/1 http://fb.me/NSk2lInj
Team San Jose is doing its best to reshape their image (in an effort to keep their contract). Their press release: http://bit.ly/hlXY6b
6 homicides in SJ in 17 days. Are the 2 finalists for SJPD Chief’s job sure they want it? http://thedailyfetch.com and…
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San Jose’s leaders are calling the (afore-tweeted) 6 homicides thus far this year an “aberration“… The Daily Fetch believes that calling them an aberration is San Jose leader’s attempt to not scare off Antony Batt… Protect San Jose comes back today on the same subject. They take some swipes in their post, including a swipe at San Jose’s Gang Prevention Task Force, Mayor Reed (obviously), and Sean Webby…
Palo Alto is going to start discussing consolidating some of it services (like a public safety dispatch center) with neighbors Mountain View, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale… How very San Mateo County…
In other Palo Alto news, the Palo Alto Police Department released video footage for a 2008 Taser incident. (An incident that has the City in court defending themselves on civil rights violation accusations…)
This is newsworthy, if you live in Gilroy. Dion Bracco will run for Mayor in 2012… They sure do start their campaigns early in Gilroy, perhaps it is because the garlic-growing season takes so much time and energy… (Perry Woodward is the other candidate to watch.)
