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Daily Fetch 2.28.12: Oh Atherton, how we love thee…

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Cell towers and small, San Mateo County cities… it is a recipe for disaster. And that’s what happened in San Carlos last night. The City Council called AT&T “bullies” and yelled and screamed, but eventually approved a new cell tower.

Oh Atherton, how we love thee… On January 27th, we wrote:

And today… when we learn that the interim City Manager will not, in fact, be an executive coach. He won’t be anything. Atherton makes Bell look well-run…

To Pacifica, where Riptide was correct, unfortunately, Councilmember Jim Vreeland has resigned from the City Council due to health problems. Leave it up to the County Times to have a small error in the posting of the story however…

While we’re in Pacifica, Riptide gives us the scoop on yesterday’s Council meeting. No sales tax measure heaading to the ballot…

Tags: atherton, cell tower, pacifica, riptide, san carlos, vreeland
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Daily Fetch 2.9.12: Crime, crime, court…

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

There was one big story in San Mateo County yesterday… unfortunately, that story was about a gigantic “crack, meth bust“…

In other crime news, the Summit prep student pleaded not guilty to attempted rape…

Speaking of things that are/will be in court… the suit brought against Burlingame for their cell tower “moratorium” is in court this week.

Have a good one…

Tags: burlingame, cell tower, crack, meth, redwood city, summit prep
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Daily Fetch 1.9.12: Bring on the waves…

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Opening ceremonies (finally) went off without a hitch on Friday. The contest is now open, and waiting for waves (and presumably a public safety plan…)

This will be bad news today for a certain set of folks in Menlo Park… The British Bankers Club has had its liquor license suspended…

Today, Sue Lempert’s inches in the Daily Journal are dedicated to Redwood City’s new Mayor: Alicia Aguirre, “Redwood City’s first Latina Mayor…”

Burlingame and cell phone towers go together like… well, like Burlingame and leaf blowers. They don’t really. But the Burlingame Planning Commission will discuss cell towers’ future tonight. If you hate college football, perhaps this is something you might want to attend…

Tags: alicia aguirre, british bankers club, burlingame, cell tower, mavericks, menlo park, sue lempert
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Daily Fetch 10.28.11: We will continue to publish (and so will the County Times)

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Big media news today: The Daily Fetch will continue to publish under this masthead… (Oh, and the County Times will continue to publish too…)

Remember Monday when the Board of Supervisors agreed with the Sheriff to apply to the State for money for the new jail? That’s when we (sarcastically) wrote: ”Because the state has so much cash to help out…” Well, it turns out we weren’t really being sarcastic after all. The State told the County to go pound stand…

The Burlingame (temporary) wireless cell tower ban is in court, because one of the companies affected applied pre-ban… Lawyers are having a field day…

Enjoy your weekend. Check out downtown Oakland this weekend. We hear things are nice and calm over there…

Tags: burlingame, cell tower, county times, new jail, oakland, sheriff
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Daily Fetch 9.8.11: A Councilmember, a Supervisor, and a Police Chief walk into a pot club…

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

A Pacifica Councilmember (Mary Ann Nihart), a County Supervisor (Don Horsley), and a Chief of Police (Jim Tasa) walk into a pot club in Pacifica… This isn’t a joke. But we are supposed to believe that it was an accident. The Daily Fetch thinks the crew was looking for the Kind…

William Ayres Update: Yesterday, Dr. Ayres was “formally committed yesterday to a state mental hospital where the 79-year-old will be treated for Alzheimer’s disease-related dementia…” (From the Daily Journal)

Ok, we admit when we’re wrong. Earlier in the week we said that Burlingame wanted to ban cell towers. It turns out it was a temporary moratorium, not permanent. (Thank you Mayor Nagel for the correction and thank you to the Daily Journal for the follow-up story.)

Here’s something that will suprise absolutely nobody: The Supervisorial Districts in the County won’t change much…

Tags: 420, burlingame, cell tower, horsley, nagel, nihart, pacifica, tasa, william ayres
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Daily Fetch 9.6.11: Cell Tower Erections in Burlingame?

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

This County has had its share of deadline explosions in the past year and there was another one late last week when a laboratory at Membrane Technology and Research on Willow Road in Menlo Park exploded and killed a scientist there. This is a tragic story that is still unfolding…

From San Bruno:

Folks that a suing PG&E pushed for a trial date for their cases late last week. If we weren’t extremely lazy on Friday, we would have posted this story then…
The Mercury News Editorial Board has some more to say about PG&E following the NTSB report last week and a gasline explosion that happened in Cupertino last week as well…

The County Times says that the redevelopment of San Mateo’s Bay Meadows is “slow, steady“… But we’ll put the emphasis on slow…

We know that the online County Times headlines aren’t the same as whatever print edition is coming out these days (if there is one), but this is still a bit much:

Here’s some tips for future online headline writing. You’re welcome…

Getting in on the redistricting action, there will be a Santa Clara County Committee looking at where the lines should be drawn. Welcome to 6 months ago County of San Mateo… Everyone else is done with their redistricting, you may have noticed…

Here’s something: As most communities grapple with how and where to put cell phone towers, Burlingame may go the easiest route and ban them all together… Which really puts the burden on surrounding Cities to amp up their cell tower erections… (That sounds funny…)

Finally, we’ll go coastside, where Half Moon Bay seems to be shaping up as a war zone between Nortenos and Surenos… which is not good news.

Tags: bay meadows, burlingame, cell tower, county times, cupertino, hmb, membrane technology, nortenos, ntsb, pge, redistricting, san bruno, san mateo, surenos
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Daily Fetch 8.4.11: Debt Ceiling versus Mavericks…

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

You thought it was tough for the folks in Washington to come together to pass an extension of the debt ceiling? Well, the factions in the Mavericks surf world are seemingly coming together for the good of the order…

Downtown Burlingame is going to change considerably in the future… At least that’s the hope of the City Council. They’ll soon consider 19 proposals to develop the parking lots in and around town…

In other (equally-controversial) news from Burlingame, the City Council will start to figure out how, and where, to put up cell phone towers to provide service to your iPad 2…

Tags: burlingame, cell tower, mavericks
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Daily Fetch 5.6.11: Dave Pine can now move his furniture…

Friday, May 6th, 2011

The Supervisors’ race is final. Dave Pine is the new guy. Richard Holober, Gina Papan, and Terry Nagel are eying their next runs… Michael Stogner is finally moving home…

Some folks in San Mateo County have reason to celebrate with this obvious headline: Hillsborough, other affluent San Mateo County communities top school rankings…

Those cheers you hear (very faintly as a bike speeds by you today) are from cyclists who take the train. That’s because Caltrain is adding more bike cars…

Five Guys Burgers and Fries is moving into the new (not-yet-built) Safeway in Burlingame. Also going into the center, A Grind Coffee House, which is, of course, famous for being the place where Nancy Botwin gets her coffee…

In the latest of the local cell tower battles… a San Bruno man claims he is willing to get arrested to stop a tower across from his house.

Tags: Caltrain, cell tower, dave pine, five guys, hillsborough, holober, nagel, papan, san bruno, stogner
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Daily Fetch 4.19.11: Stock up for 4/20… just not in San Jose

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Big night for the Sharks… Game 3 in LA.

The day before 420, the San Jose City Council is poised to crack down (eliminate?) medical marijuana collectives in San Jose. Will San Jose soon secure its spot as the uncoolest place in the Bay Area? We’ll see… The Merc Editorial Board says: ”Don’t ban clubs…” We’ll assume the Metro/San Jose Inside also would like to see the clubs alive and well, if for no other reason than advertising revenue…

Scott Herhold at the Merc has dubbed the Santa Clara Valley Water District the “Golden Spiggot”… Now, the Merc has dubbed San Jose’s proposed new water treatment facility (sewage plant) the Taj Mahal of Toilet Water… In fairness to the Taj Mahal, it probably didn’t take nearly 2 billion to build…

Speaking of the Water District… “South County water rates ready to surge…”

Two big stories about Caltrain today.

Caltrain may be able to keep the trains running for the time being. Here are the details from the San Mateo County Times: ”…Caltrain get its hands on funds typically used for transit maintenance around the Bay Area, and perhaps money that had been earmarked for construction projects on the rail line. In all, Caltrain needs an extra $3.5 million in the coming fiscal year to avoid cutting 10 daily trains — in the process scrapping its popular baby bullet service — and closing three stations while shuttering another nine stops on the weekend…”
State Senator Simitian, Assemblymember Rich Gordon, and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo were all in Menlo Park yesterday to talk High-Speed Rail and Caltrain. Actually, they were there to tell everyone within ear-shot that they want Caltrain improved/ electrified/ upgraded and High-Speed Rail to end in San Jose (essentially) so that the Peninsula is not disturbed…

These stories combined make it seem like a fairly “complex” organization to run…

The cell tower application to put a tower on St. Albert the Great Church in Palo Alto has been pulled. It turns out the Church pulled the plug on the project. So, for all you folks on Channing Avenue in Palo Alto who can’t get your YouTube videos to load on your iPad 2s, this is why…

Remember to stock up for 4/20…

Tags: 420, Caltrain, cell tower, eshoo, golden spiggot, gordon, palo alto, simitian, taj mahal, yeager
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Daily Fetch 4.8.11: If you aren’t following us on Twitter…

Friday, April 8th, 2011

If you aren’t following us on Twitter and aren’t our friend on Facebook, you are missing so much in between The Daily Fetch’s morning post… Like this:

The Chamber is planning a really “kind” 420 party for Pat Dando’s going away. Check out the invitation we posted last night… With a trippy invitation like that for an event on 4/20, it should be quite a party… and this
The SF Weekly had a little fun with San Jose yesterday, calling San Jose Councilmembers Sam Liccardo and Rose Herrera’s “let’s snag Twitter” stunt part of San Jose’s long-standing inferiority complex… To which Liccardo replied: “...There’s always been a healthy rivalry between San Francisco and San Jose, and that will just gain momentum when the San Jose A’s beat the San Francisco Giants in the 2015 World Series…” (This is the second time that SF bloggers made fun of the South Bay in the past few weeks…)… and this
Milpitas Unified is the new “Dallas”: the Superintendent was placed on leave amid charges of affair with a Principal…

As you probably heard, the defendants in the De Anza civil rape trial were not held liable and no damages were awarded to the victim. The Merc’s Scott Herhold takes a very close look at how the trial and the issues surrounding it… (As an aside, one of the alleged attackers’ father uses perhaps the worst metaphor ever in relationship to the verdict: ”This was a pretty good spanking (for the plaintiff).”… Really Roger Maltbie?) The Merc Editorial Board chimes in too to say that “What happened at that party still wrong…”

The controversy over AT&T’s proposed cell tower at St. Albert the Great Church in Palo Alto took another turn yesterday, and not a particularly good one for AT&T. In front of Palo Alto’s Architectural Review Board, AT&T representatives got chastised for designing a “…50-foot-tower coated in pink stucco to match the church, with gray stones flanking each corner…” The saga continues…

The deep cuts to Caltrain have been postponed. Apparently the Caltrain board is convinced that a miracle is going to happen in the next two weeks, which is how long they have delayed taking action… Remember, the Merc Editorial board isn’t too enamored with the Caltrain board’s decision-making processes (“Few signs of life on Caltrain board…”)…

Speaking of deep cuts… This week, the City of San Jose begins their community budget meetings out and about throughout the City. Steve Kline of San Jose gives his “Citizen Opinion” in The Bay Citizen… His opinion, in part, is that Deb Figone doesn’t really like open government after all…

To Sunnyvale and Dweeb.org... Councilmember Jim Griffith runs down the recent corporate relocations/expansions in Sunnyvale. The most recent: HP. At least he tells it like it is: ”…I’d love to take credit for this (and since I’m an elected official, I’m sure I’ll find a way to do so)…”

The San Jose-Hating Giants open tonight at home… We’ll meet you at the Mays Statue…

Tags: at&t, bay citizen, Caltrain, cell tower, chamber, dando, deanza, deb figone, dweeb.org, facebook, herhold, milpitas unfied, palo alto, sf weekly, sunnyvale, twitter
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