Posts Tagged ‘deb figone’
Monday, December 3rd, 2012
Did anyone notice any unusual weather this weekend?
We’re used to hearing from the San Jose Police Chief (and the good folks at Protect San Jose) about staffing shortages and what that means for San Jose residents… but the big stink is about the staffing shortages at the Wastewater Control Plant in San Jose… John Woolfolk takes a look.
Speaking of San Jose PD voicing their concern over staffing, Peter Delevett is back at the typewriter (do they still use typewriters?) to pen a piece about how the rising homicide rate in San Jose this year (43) is causing all manner of finger-pointing…
While we’re on SJPD… Internal Affairs had a story this weekend about how a special unit within the Department wanted to put two criss-crossed assault rifles behind a skull… Good PR. While we’re on IA: Councilmember Pierluigi’s “I want this guy for Police Chief” piece on San Jose Inside apparently struck a nerve with City Manager Deb Figone and IA proves once again that they read San Jose Inside by talking about possible successors to Supervisor “P-Card” Shirakawa…
Speaking of P-Cards, the Merc Editorial Board writes an(other) obvious editorial: Santa Clara needs to enforce P-Card rules. The “political lynching” continues… (Just kidding y’all, we don’t think this is a lynching…)
If the words “confidential” and “controversial” are in a story about Los Altos, then you better read it. This one is juicy. It involves the release of a Memo about a (allegedly) flawed process to sell a valuable piece of City land in Los Altos. Good times…
Finally, a big shout-out to the previously un-shut-out-worthy San Jose State Spartans football team… They are going to the Military Bowl on December 27th in Washington, DC. See you at RFK…
Tags: deb figone, delevett, homicide, los altos, Oliverio, p-card, protect, shirakawa, sjpd, sjsu football
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
Good morning Silicon Valley… Man was Tampa fun!
Speaking of right-wing hypocrites… John Roeder has never registered to vote. John Roeder is the head of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers’ Association and is the dude giving the Santa Clara County Supervisors and the Santa Clara Valley Water District all kinds of headaches these days. But, he doesn’t think it is important to vote. Oh, and he had this ridiculous quote that he’s: “…never seen and election an election where one vote would have made any difference…” Oh yeah?
What happens if you call a protest at the San Jose City Manager’s house in San Jose and nobody shows up… Well, read this story and find out.
The San Jose Firefighter who had a heart attack fighting a fire last week is still in the hospital, but doctors are “pleased”…
From the Merc’s Editorial page (taking page from last week’s Op Ed) says: San Jose needs strategy to shore up public safety…
If you’ve ever read anything with the words “Stanford” and “trail” in the same story, you probably thought there could never be any good news, but the Palo Alto Weekly tells you something different about the words “Stanford,” “trail,” and “Palo Alto”…
Finally, because San Jose needs some bucking up these days, it is good to know that San Jose’s own Joey Chestnut can at 191 chicken wings in 12 minutes…
Tags: deb figone, joey chestnut, palo alto, palo alto weekly, san jose, silicon valley taxpayers, stanford
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
#pensiongate…
The issue gets a look from Scott Herhold today in the Merc. He breaks down the two main players: San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and lobbyist Tom Saggau. This is the biggest day in the life of Saggau’s career… instead of shilling for Club Wet or bail bonds, he gets a serious look (and some compliments) from Herhold… but a mug shot of a photo…
The issue will also get a look from City Manager Deb Figone in advance of the March 29th City Council meeting. She’ll do some research into where the $650 million came from and how it was developed. Sort of a “who knew what when” type of thing… That should be a good read.
Two Hells Angel stories today:
It’s always big news when projects actually get approved in Palo Alto… so it’s big news today that the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission approved the Edgewood Plaza project… Retail, homes, and a park. Oh my!
Tags: #pensiongate, Chuck Reed, deb figone, hells angels, palo alto, tom saggau, vagos
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
The big news today comes from San Jose City Hall where #pensiongate may or may not have influenced the City Manager’s (and the Mayor’s) decision to back down a little bit from a very strong pension reform measure on the June ballot to something less than that…
To something less combustible… Mardi Gras, once the worst night in the entire year to be a downtown business owner (that wasn’t a bar) was “mostly quiet” according to Mike Rosenberg..
There’s a property available in downtown Palo Alto… the former Post Office. And guess who is interested in buying. The City of Palo Alto…
San Jose Inside’s newest blogger, Pete Allen, chimes in again with a view into “Democratic Primary Wars“… Circular firing squad?
Tags: #pensiongate, Chuck Reed, deb figone, inside, mardi gras, palo alto
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
This morning, there is good news is San Jose… It seems that All Nippon Airways is about to put the “international” back into Mineta San Jose International Airport… SJC to Tokyo coming in 2012. Not only that, but they will fly the 787 Dreamliner in and out. For your airplane geeks, that means something… Cool.
The County Public Defender Mary Greenwood could be moving from the Defender’s office to a Judge’s chambers…
Scott Herhold gets nostalgic today to talk about Hart’s… “San Jose’s big department store…” It is also “San Jose’s last downtown department store…”
Yesterday, San Jose’s Independent Police Auditor LaDoris Cordell came out in a Merc Op-Ed about putting little cameras on SJPD Officers in the wake of: “Thursday morning saw San Jose’s eighth officer-involved shooting this year, the fourth to end in a fatality…” If only there was an SJPOA blog that could respond or talk about such things… because we know how fond of Ms. Cordell they are…
San Jose Inside picks up where the Merc left off with describing the controversy over if a Councilmember (Xavier Campos) can send an email to the entire City workforce. The Hall Monitor (Deb Figone) said no… And therein lies the war on Christmas, sort of…
Tags: ana, deb figone, hart's, herhold, ipa, ladoris cordell, public defender, sjc, xavier campos
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
Which reminds us, we’ll be publishing through Wednesday and then keeping on high alert for all kinds of news that folks like to bury around the holiday week. Don’t think you’ll be able to slip something by us either…
Tags: bud selig, Chuck Reed, deb figone, fiscal emergency, giants, pattie cortese, rick doyle, rose herrera, san jose a's, santa clara 49ers, sjc
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
Anyone who watches/attends San Jose City Council meetings know that there are crazy people out there that believe the
bunk science about not vaccinating… and now the rates of whooping cough are going up. Is anyone surprised? Is polio next? Perhaps the mumps?
Anyone who has been paying attention in San Jose for the past decade knows that Watson Park near downtown has been a black (or at least a highly contaminated) eye… But not anymore.
The Park is re-opened.
Metblogs chose a picture of Deb Figone to highlight their post… probably pissing off the folks at
Protect San Jose.
Speaking of
Protect San Jose… San Jose is becoming Sin City. Don’t believe us? The Vice President of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association says so (
in the Merc)… From now on, we expect
Protect San Jose to refer to San Jose as
Sin Jose…
Speaking of City of San Jose parks… unbelievably, the City of San Jose was handing out plastic bags to dog owners to clean up pet poop.
But it was a $60,000 budget item and has been cut… (And while we’re at it: handing out plastic bags in parks, but banning them in stores…)
For those of you on Twitter (and following
@carlguardino), you were treated to real-time Ironman Tweet updates yesterday. Mr. Guardino won the CEO Challenge at the Ironman Canada. What did you do yesterday slacker?
The weekend’s Internal Affairs in the
Merc takes a (well-deserved) shot at the Board of the Water District for trying to cut their salaries/stipends to share the pain of the economic downturn and budget cuts… We don’t know what’s worse, the fact that the proposed cut was
only $26 per meeting or that the cut failed to pass the Board…
We’ll end with this…
San Jose Inside has a new feature they just launched where readers of their blog can pose questions to elected officials, and others presumably, and have those elected officials answer said questions: Chuck Reed, you’re on the clock… and so far,
it looks like some (many?) public safety folks are posing questions.
Tags: Chuck Reed, deb figone, inside, protect san jose, sin jose, vaccines, watson park
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
The dust-up between the San Jose Police Officers’ Association President George Beattie and the San Jose City Manager Deb Figone continues, even though City Hall is pretty much shut down for July… San Jose Inside does their best to sort it all out… While we’re talking SJPOA, their website, Protect San Jose, is still wishing everyone “…a Happy and Safe Independence Day”… Perhaps they’re on a blog-cation…
Here’s another Mountain View story you are likely to hear about a lot: AT&T plans to put up “
lots of small 4G antennas” on top of utility polls… That should be fun.
The firm that has been selling the high-end suites at the soon?-to-be 49ers’ stadium has also gotten the contract to sell season tickets… so, if you know anyone at
Legends Hospitality, start sucking up now… (Oh, it probably wouldn’t hurt to start saving up your cash too…)
Tags: at&t, deb figone, facebook, george beattie, google, google gate bridge, inside, legends hospitality, mp, palo alto, protect, santa clara 49ers, the tech
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
It was a big and important day for Silicon Valley yesterday: Campbell’s own Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s Famous Coney Island Fourth of July hot dog eating contest… If you have to be good at something…
And you thought the San Jose budget battles were over after the last San Jose City Council meeting…
San Jose City Manager Deb Figone put out some weekend reading that took shots at the San Jose Police Officers’ Association OpEd from last week (
OpEd) (
Figone’s Memo)
While we’re talking law enforcement, the
Merc Editorial Board endorses
two Federal agents that are coming to help SJPD deal with the spike in gang violence… We’re with the Federal Government and we’re here to help…
The San Jose Redevelopment Agency is on its last legs… and the
Merc had a piece over the weekend about how the wind-down looks from the inside…
Not pretty.
Folks, if you aren’t on Twitter… get there.
In case you haven’t noticed, the County population is getting older. Much older. In Sunday’s paper, the
Merc looked at the fastest-growing population in the County:
the good folks over 85 years old…
Enjoy the week…
Tags: deb figone, esuhsd, inside, joey chestnut, luther burbank, protect, redevelopment, santa clara 49ers, sjpoa
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