Posts Tagged ‘gilroy’
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
Ok, we’ve been off a few days, let’s try to catch up quickly…
The Ford F-250 is a very big pick-up truck. Especially when the F-250 “smashes into eight parked vehicles…” and then the “…driver runs off…” That was the scene Sunday night in San Jose on Union Avenue…
Three City Councilmembers in San Jose would like pot clubs to pay the taxes they owe. Which leads us to this quote… can you name the Councilmember?: “Although many marijuana dispensaries are law-abiding, several dozen are saying, ‘We’re open for business, but we don’t have any taxable revenue… That sounds a lot like, ‘I smoked, but I didn’t inhale,’ and we need to clamp down on those businesses that aren’t paying their fair share…”
In Sunday’s Internal Affairs column, we learned… Johnny Khamis, who is running for San Jose City Council District 10, thought he was going to get incumbent Nancy Pyle and challenger Edesa Bitbadal’s endorsements… He didn’t, and now he’s whining about it…
In other political news from District 10 in San Jose (and other endorsements Khamis did not get)… The Metro endorsed Robert Braunstein for that seat (and Rose Herrera in District 8)…
And in yet other political news… While Ash Kalra was blogging from the Democratic Convention on San Jose Inside, Pete Constant was trying to avoid letting anyone know that he was in Tampa for the Republican National Convention. San Jose Inside has the scoop, which involves Constant paying the City of San Jose back some money…
Another embarrassing Gilroy story… (You may remember this…) The interim Fire Chief was caught buying booze for some kids in Santa Cruz over the weekend. Now, Gilroy will look for another interim (interim) Fire Chief…
Tags: 420, ash kalra, edesa bitbadal, gilroy, johnny khamis, liccardo, metro/inside, nancy pyle, pete constant, rose herrera, san jose
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Friday, July 27th, 2012
The Olympics Opening Ceremony is tonight. Not to get all “National Politics” on you, but it seems that Mark Purdy shared his concerns about the Olympics with Mitt Romney.
Those of you in South County already know this, but this weekend is the Garlic Festival. Bring a mint…
We don’t know what’s going on in Palo Alto, but the incumbents-not-running-for-reelection trend is contagious. (Sid and Yeiway aren’t running for reelection to the City Council…) But now Barbara Klausner on the Palo Alto Unified School Board has decided not to run for reelection. Of course, she actually has a reason she’s willing to talk about: “…Klausner, a former educator in the district, said the five-member board “carefully circumscribes” itself in matters concerning pedagogy, and that doesn’t align with her interests…” Another of the school board members in Palo Alto will be running again, Camille Townsend…
More about Chick-Fil-A’s attempt to open in Mountain View… From the Voice.
To the blogs, where we love today’s highlight: Rich Robinson on Inside getting a little preachy talking about how to deal with the press as an elected official. While the post is a boring retread of “media relations 101”, the links embedded in the story. Here’s what we’re talking about
What Rich Said: “…so a failure to call back will make you look like you are avoiding a situation…”
What It’s Linked To: Liz Kniss’ pork-belly spending story at the County.
What Rich Said: “…Let’s face it, some facts are not positive…”
What It’s Linked To: Former MACSA teachers still be suspicious of Xavier Campos’ involvement in embezzlement.
What Rich Said: “The term “background” is used so that the reporter will not use the name of the person giving the information.”
What It’s Linked To: Recent panic room story at the County Building.
Tags: chick-fil-a, garlic festival, gilroy, inside, mt. view, olympics, palo alto, pausd, rich robinson
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
Happy Summer Monday friends… We have some not so happy summer Monday news, however:
Creepy and sad details are emerging about a terrible crime in San Jose. Joe Rodriguez at the Merc has some details about the case, including: “…a case that alleges they sequestered and beat a dozen mentally-ill adults, all of them Asian-Americans, forcing them to live inside in abject squalor, along with 25 scrawny dogs…”
From Gilroy, some updates from the early July death of a 3 year old in Gilroy: “…As a community anxiously awaits answers in the accidental shooting death of a San Jose police officer’s 3-year-old son in Gilroy, authorities continue to keep critical details under lock and key…”
Because nothing says “good public policy” like making big decisions at the ballot box, Palo Alto will have a pro-pot club initiative on the November ballot. (Because weed isn’t easy enough to get on Paly’s campus…)
While we’re in Palo Alto, perhaps Chuck Reed could become a featured speaker at a future City Council meeting there. Here’s what the Palo Alto Weekly is talking about: Pensions: Palo Alto’s ticking time bomb… Perhaps we now know why Sid Espinosa wants nothing to do with running for re-election…
Finally, because we mentioned it last week… We’ll mention it this week: Protect San Jose is still on blog-cation. Remember Protect, sunscreen!
Tags: 420, Chuck Reed, gilroy, palo alto, pensions, protect, rodriguez
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Friday, March 16th, 2012
Big news from Santa Clara… again. The City Council gave the final approval to the stadium deal, including another $100 million loan (potentially). The house Randy Moss built?
There is a library initiative circulating in San Jose. It would provide a minimum funding level for local libraries to protect them from cuts by “penny-wise-pound-foolish” City Councils. Former Mayor Susan Hammer is on board, so are former Council members Frank Fiscalini and Trixie Johnson… You know who isn’t on board? The Merc Ed Board…
If you’re wondering why folks are lined up in the rain… it’s because the new iPad comes out today. See you in line…
Here’s a terrible South County story. An Iraq War vet killed his little sister and then himself in Gilroy.
And a weird story from North County. A helicopter made an emergency landing in a marsh in Palo Alto yesterday…
Tags: apple, frank fiscalini, gilroy, libraries, palo alto, santa clara 49ers, susan hammer, trixie johnson
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
While voters in Iowa proved that they didn’t Google “Santorum” before they caucused… voters in San Jose will soon have to vote on the repeal of the recently-passed medical marijuana regulations… maybe. The pro-pot people (Rich Robinson, et al) have officially qualified their initiative to repeal the new regulations. Mayor Chuck Reed is thinking about a compromise instead. Dude, sounds like that might be a good idea.
And while the Mayor was thinking about what to do about pot… an SJPD Officer was seriously injured while chasing a carjacking suspect. Which would be another thing we’d love to get Protect San Jose’s prospective on… but crickets.
You have probably heard a lot about the San Jose A’s (proposed) stadium… but some neighbors are also pissed about proposed (and much more eminent) San Jose Earthquakes’ stadium. (While we’re on it, yesterday’s KQED Forum had an entire hour on the shifting landscape of Bay Area sports. Mostly out of Oakland and south…)
And while San Jose was dealing with all that, some folks in City Hall (and Atherton and Palo Alto and elsewhere) got some very welcome news… an expert, well-respected ‘peer-review’ group looking at High-Speed Rail in California gave the project some really crappy reviews and advised the California State Legislature, and anyone else who will listen, to pull the plug on the train.
Palo Alto has a new Mayor… Sid Espinosa is now done sitting in the middle of the dais at the endless Palo Alto City Council meetings and it is Yiawey Yeh’s turn for the punishment. Speaking of punishment, Mike Kasperzak is taking over as Mountain View’s Mayor (with John Inks – a Libertarian – taking over as Vice Mayor)…
There was some strange traffic happenings last night in Gilroy… even stranger than normal, actually. 10 tons of cardboard spilled onto Highway 152. Holy Casa de Fruta Batman…
Tags: 420, casa de fruta, Chuck Reed, gilroy, hsr, mike kasperzak, palo alto, protect, rich robinson, san jose a's, santorum, sid espinosa, sjpd, yiaweh yeh
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
But to more local and more City Hall-centric stuff from the Tweet-deck of
Protect San Jose:
Speaking of police, there was a big Gilroy
gang sweep this morning… That might put a crimp in our Gilroy readership today.
The Daily Fetch has a big gang following down there…
Tags: albert pujols, fast food, gilroy, ken yeager, mark purdy, protect, san jose a's, sjpd
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
It’s one thing for the City of San Jose to lay off police officers and firefighters to close the budget gap, but now they want to close and sell Rancho del Pueblo? Hell to the no… There is a
public hearing today on this proposal which should be a doozy… Just ask the good folks who love Sharp Park in Pacifica how much emotion there is around closing a golf course…
On the golf course front, the
Merc Editorial Board chooses “
cops and libraries” over golf…
Not on the golf course front,
Protect San Jose seems to be on an extended blog-cation… They have posted sporadically lately. We miss them.
You might remember back in June when a teenager was stabbed outside of the McDonald’s downtown after a Music in the Park concert… Well, this
teenager is suing McDonald’s for not providing adequate (or any) security. (Of course, if a restaurants serves food that actually kills you, why would they care what happens in their parking lot?…)
There has been a lot written and said about BART’s cell-phone-shut-off this week in order to curb protests… well, the ACLU might have something to say about what’s happening in Gilroy too. The Gilroy Police Department is in the process of
installing “360-degree security cameras” to catch criminals (and deter crime?) in downtown Gilroy.
Tags: aclu, bart, gilroy, mcdonald's, music in the park, protect, rancho del pueblo, sharp park
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Speaking of Harry… Apparently he thinks it’s a good idea to run for San Jose City Council in District 10 when Nancy Pyle is termed out next year. Seriously.
San Jose Inside has the details. Harry is one thing… but former Police Chief Rob Davis running? That’s quite another. Perhaps his $200k+ pension and benefits package isn’t quite enough. He needs another $81k to top it all off…
As if the budget/pension battles happening up and down the County weren’t bad news enough for fire departments, the Civil Grand Jury chimes in about how
fire departments waste lots and lots of money responding to non-fire emergencies…
You know that horrible San Antonio Shopping Center in Mountain View? Well, it is
getting a “facelift” according to the
Daily News (and the Mountain View City Council)…
While Gilroy may be famous for garlic (and young families)… Morgan Hill is trying to stake its claim as the dance capital of Santa Clara County.
Morgan Hiller Ryan Ramirez is in the top 20 on SYTYCD… For those of you who are not as cool as us, SYTYCD is
So You Think You Can Dance…
Tags: civil grand jury, county board of education, gilroy, harry mavrogenes, inside, Morgan Hill, mountain view, rob davis, sytycd
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Happy post-Memorial Day… We’ll await the drunk driving arrest tallies (of elected officials) and get right into the news of the long weekend…
The San Jose Redistricting Commission has done its work… There were a bunch of stories over the past few weeks (
Herhold and others) talking about how contentious the public meetings have been.
The Daily Fetch email-box has been filling up with name-calling and back-stabbing… In the end, however, it seems the
Commission will make a recommendation to the San Jose City Council and the world will not end as a result…
In what can only be described as deja vu all over again (again…):
Zanotto’s in downtown San Jose is closing. This time, Redevelopment really won’t be able to bail them out… Damn you, Safeway!
Santa Clara County’s election in June 2010 may or may not have been totally messed up because the County Registrar doesn’t really know what it’s doing (allegedly)…
these are the findings of the Civil Grand Jury. The
Merc has the full report… and hopefully Teresa Alvarado does too…
Tags: .12, campbell, Chuck Reed, dui, ed lee, gilroy, herhold, larry page, law and order, mountain view, palo alto, protect, redistricting, sjpoa, teresa alvarado, zanotto's
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
The fall-out from Tuesday’s San Jose City Council meeting continues…
Scott Herhold looks at some of the “messaging” in and around the City Council dais and how Mayor Reed and others are grabbing the “change” mantle. Even the Chamber’s Pat Dando is taking a page out of Barack Obama’s campaign playbook. Dando and Obama, that would be a funny conversation…
In case you’re wondering about the AFL-CIO messages on the City’s fiscal emergency, here’s the online form letter they’d like you to fill out… Stop Wisconsin-Style Attacks on Workers’ Rights in San Jose…
Palo Alto is dealing with similar budgetary issues and there are “no easy choices” if negotiations fail… Sound familiar? Stop the Wisconsin-style attacks in Palo Alto?
Another homicide in San Jose…
In other gruesome crime news, we get this from the Merc (along with a creepy mug shot): “…Gilroy police said Wednesday that a 52-year-old man they arrested on suspicion of raping a woman over the weekend had also been molesting a girl he was harboring in his home…”
Hey, at least we don’t have to worry about watching the Sharks anymore these season…
Tags: afl-cio, barack obama, Chuck Reed, dando, gilroy, herhold, palo alto, sharks
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