Posts Tagged ‘google’
Friday, May 31st, 2013
It was a great day for several Bay Area Giants: Barry Zito still has it, Tesla will expand its Supercharger network, and Facebook and Apple bounced back.
California high-speed rail plans have been placed on hold because some folks want to overturn the 2008 voter-approved bond measure.
Fallen San Jose officers were honored yesterday at SJPD’s annual tribute. Examiner.com tells us about the ceremony.
20th homicide in SJ and fourth since Sunday…The Merc’s Robert Solanga and Mark Gomez give us the details and the obligatory Chuck Reed response about “holding down gang violence.” Meanwhile, Protect San Jose is still beating up on Metro/San Jose Inside.
Sunnyvale’s City Council, taking a page from San Jose’s playbook, had to vote for more money for legal services to the tune of $400,000. Not the several million SJ is spending to defend its pension measure, but still a chunk of change.
SF Business Times tells us who the highest paid Bay Area CEO’s are…Did you make the list?
The 1st District Court of Appeal upheld a Marin County judge’s ruling and placed the State’s death penalty on hold.
According to the Merc, Google co-founder (apparently) wore yoga clothing and fuzzy green slippers on purpose during cameo appearances in the upcoming movie, “The Internship”.
The SV Business Journal’s Lauren Hepler tells us that Facebook’ PAC needs to get rid of its training wheels and learn the ropes of how to get things done in DC. Rep. Zoe Lofgren pretty much tells tech companies to stick with their day jobs. Zuckerberg’s PAC (apparently) hasn’t reached out to her about immigration reform. Maybe this idea of getting political is just a pipe dream…
The CEQA reform bill was unanimously approved by the state Senate yesterday.
For those in the D2 Supervisor Race, it’s GOTV weekend, stop reading and get to work!
And as a reminder, if you’re trying to get a hold of us you can email us at wd@thedailyfetch.com. We leak the news so you don’t have to.
Tags: apple, CEQA, facebook, giants, google, high speed rail, metro/san jose inside, san jose, san jose-hating giants, sunnyvale, tesla
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Thursday, May 30th, 2013
GOP Darling Teresa Alvarado and her philosophical muse Vic Ajlouny have a leaky operation. That’s how we see it. How else do you explain that on the same day the Vicster and the GOP Darling mailed attack pieces, the Democratic Party had a response piece land in mailboxes as well. Coincidence? Hmmm…we wonder who could have tipped the Dems? Thanks to our spies for sending these mailers, keep it coming!
In other news, the Silicon Valley Business Journal has an interview with Lou Wolff. Thankfully for San Jose’s urine stained downtown, the mogul hasn’t given up on getting the A’s to the South Bay.
Speaking of cleaning up urine stains, a groundbreaking ceremony will be taking place tomorrow in downtown San Jose on an empty lot that will soon be a new health care facility.
San Jose Inside tells us that Joe “dog food” Simitian doesn’t want you to know who he’s meeting with. Apparently, he gets wigged out if he thinks somebody’s watching him.
Something happened with the San Jose Earthquakes…no one cares.
So, after dissing Google NASA is now looking for someone to manage Moffett Airfield and one of the bidders could be Google? Watch out SJC!
As we all know, crime is off the hook in San Jose, but did you know it’s getting sort of kind of bad in Milpitas? But still not as bad as in San Jo where another murder took place.
And as a reminder, if you’re trying to get a hold of us you can email us at wd@thedailyfetch.com. We leak the news so you don’t have to.
Tags: democrats, google, gop darling teresa alvarado, joe simitian, milpitas, moffett field, san jose earthquakes, silicon valley business journal, sjc, teresa alvarado, vic ajlouny
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Friday, May 17th, 2013
The Mercury News tells us of the next chapter in the Darcie Green saga. After first being elected to the Alum Rock School Board, and then vacating said position to be appointed to the County School Board, and then having to vacate said position as her appointment violated the law…Darcie Green is back again on the County School Board. 
She’s once, twice, three times a lady (on the school board).
Atlantic Aviation has filed another lawsuit against Google International Airport.
Speaking of SJC, a woman and her Prius had a run-in with a light rail train near the airport yesterday.
For you health nuts, watch it when you’re hiking the Los Gatos Creek Trail (no that’s not a euphemism). Rabid bats have been found in the area…Run for your lives!
Cindy Chavez’s tax hike (Measure A) survived a court challenge yesterday.
All you “Big Bang Theory” fans are going to love Google’s quantum computer lab that will study artificial intelligence. The machine will take up space at NASA Ames. We love us some weird science.
Palo Alto why do you hate old people? Residents of PA are up in arms over a proposal to build affordable senior housing near their palaces.
The Warriors channeled their best Patricia Martinez Roach and lost last night. But like PMR, they will be back in the next election, ummm, we mean season.
County Supervisor Joe Simitian wants to put letter grades on restaurants, just like many other locales. While you’re at it Joe, can you assign a grade to county department heads? We wonder what grade DA Jeff “I am the law” Rosen would get? 
The Amgen Tour la Californie peddles though San Jose today. Hopefully these bicyclists won’t piss off Liccardo and cruise the sidewalks.
And as a reminder, if you’re trying to get a hold of us you can email us at wd@thedailyfetch.com. We leak the news so you don’t have to.
Tags: amgen, atlantic aviation, cindy chavez, darcie green, google, google international airport, jeff i am the law rosen, jeff rosen, joe simitian, los gatos creek trail, nasa ames, palo alto, patricia martinez-roach, sam liccardo, sjc
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Monday, May 13th, 2013
It’s the day after mother’s day; we hope you remembered to call your mom. Speaking of mother’s day, the Merc’s Internal Affairs columnists need a little hug from their Momma. 
Aww we’re sorry guys. Glad you’re all readers though. And glad we could provide you with content for ¾ of this week’s IA—GOP Darling Alvarado, Moore leaving for More Money, and their investigative piece on ‘lil old Fetch. (Apparently), we work (for free) so you don’t have to.
Seems the Merc sleuths got their tighty-whities in a bunch cuz’ every now and then we have a sharp edge. Of course, the Rosen/Alvarado Cheerleaders blame it on unions…How offensive, we at the Fetch are equal opportunity haters.
Thank god we don’t have any news racks for you to take out your aggression on.…but we digress.
Our spies tell us Scott “Might Mouse” Herhold has taken a breather from telling insiders he got the current DA elected by penning column after column trashing his predecessor and now has his sites set on entrenched labor leader Cindy Chavez. In a Happy Mother’s Day screed he abandons any and all pretext of fairness and fires his latest salvo about how Chavez possesses mind control and that Jeff “I am the law” Rosen is a wimp and felt threatened.
The Merc’s Ed Board tells us they think Rural/Metro does a crappy job providing ambulance service.
Madison Nguyen is still pissing off folks in the Vietnamese community.
Mark Zuckerberg just started his political action committee FWD.us and some of his members are not too pleased with his initial moves that they un-friended him.
A pesky thing like the environment will not stop Google’s take over of SJC.
SJ Inside tells us about former Chief Chris Moore cashing in after cashing out about a quarter-million in sick leave. At least SJI let’s folks know when they get a story from us.
And as a reminder, if you’re trying to get a hold of us or leak us some info you can email us at wd@thedailyfetch.com. We leak the news so you don’t have to.
Tags: chris moore, cindy chavez, google, jeff rosen, madison nguyen, mercury news, rural/metro, scott herhold, sjc, teresa alvarado
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Friday, May 10th, 2013
The Jeff “I am the law” Rosen crazy train continues to go off the rails. The Merc’s Kaplan reports that the DA whistleblower with the disabled kid who was demoted and exiled to Siberia (Palo Alto), has filed a grievance with Santa Clara County.
The grievance, which was posted on the Merc’s website, details Jeff “I am the law” Rosen’s Revenge. Making the situation even more bizarre, (apparently) Rosen’s “media coordinator” Sean Webby—henceforth to be referred to as Big Brother—is now monitoring Rosen’s employees telephone conversations with reporters. Holy crap!
Sean “Big Brother” Webby, maybe it’s time for an ethics refresher course.
You heard it here first, former SJ Police Chief Chris Moore has a new job. The cushy new gig is with the company that designs public safety communications networks—you know like the network that Chris spent most of his time as chief getting through congress.
You know that whole Google buying San Jose Airport thing? Yeah, well…about that. The SJ Bizjournal reports that the saga continues,
Caltrans just can’t do anything right. First they bungle the Bay Bridge project by using bolts that can be defeated by rainwater, and now they are stumped as to how spell check works on a computer. Paging Armando Gomez, your city of “Milipitas” needs you.
As the Merc’s Wolfolk talks about cops being greedy, Protect San Jose emerges from it’s undisclosed bunker to deliver a right cross to San Jose’s Alex Gurza’s upper jaw (apparently) at this week’s arbitration action at City Hall. Glad to see you back, Protect.
Woolfolk has yet another piece about Supervisor Dave Cortese’s bright (?) idea to get the Merc to move into the old city hall building. If it happens, could we take over the Merc’s spot at the new city hall with the same sweetheart, rent-free deal the Merc currently enjoys?
Sam Liccardo is tired of doing his job. Not content to pull a Don Rocha and just sit in the corner, Sam wants to throw money to the people and let them sort things out. So what you’re saying Sam is that councilmembers are about as useless as, well…councilmembers, right?
And in case you forgot, email us at wd@thedailyfetch.com. We leak the news so you don’t have to.
Tags: alex gurza, armando gomez, caltrans, chris moore, dave cortese, don rocha, google, jef i am the law rosen, john woolfolk, protect san jose, sam liccardo, sean webby, sjc
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
A saboteur(s) decided to try to take out the Metcalf PG&E substation resulting in a statewide “flex your power alert” and Sheriff Smith thinks the same saboteur(s) also severed a telephone line to Gilroy…WTF?
We received a flurry of emails yesterday describing some serious fireworks at the Young Democrats endorsement meeting for the D2 special election. Contrary to what San Jose Inside told us, Teresa Alvarado’s campaign manager is not Democratic Activist Peter Allen, it’s Alum Rock School Board member Karen Martinez, who has the Republican Party’s seal of approval. Needless to say, upon revealing the 10,000 pound elephant in the room, the Young Dems endorsed Cindy Chavez. Oh the drama!
San Jose residents do not think their councilmembers deserve a raise, and so their councilmembers are likely to get a raise. John Woolfolk is on it.
State Senator Jerry Hill agrees with NBC Bay Area that the CPUC sucks at its job and thinks the Commission’s president should get the boot.
Japan <3’s SJ. First a Japanese airline tries to save SJC, and now Japanese clothing store Muji tries to save San Jose’s ghost-downtown. We hope Muji’s efforts are met with more success than ANA’s.
In his latest audition to be a member of the traveling troupe of Cirque du Soleil, Sam “contortionist extraordinaire” Liccardo voted against his own recommendation to include strong airport curfew protections for neighborhoods surrounding SJC.
Welcome Google and can you please eat at Chiaramonte’s Deli?
The good news for Mike Honda is that he raised over $200K in the first quarter of 2013, the bad news for Mike Honda is that Ro Khanna already has $1 million cash on hand.
Tags: ana, at&t, cindy chavez, cliaramonte's deli, cpuc, democrats, google, japan, jerry hill, karen martinez, laurie smith, mike honda, muji, nbc bay area, peter allen, pge, republicans, ro khanna, sam liccardo, san jose inside, sjc, teresa alvarado
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
25 Bay Area marathoners registered for the Boston Marathon. Check the Google “people finder” page to search for loved ones.
A teenager was arrested last week for burglarizing a home in unincorporated Menlo Park, and may be a culprit for recent burglaries in San Carlos and Redwood City. What a greedy fellow.
A hotel developer wants the City of San Bruno to foot the bill for a new, swanky hotel on city land. We can’t wait to see how this one plays out.
Daly City Police are looking for three suspects who allegedly stabbed a teenager in broad daylight.
(Apparently), the Belmont folks didn’t read our Chatty Apple Thief blog very closely; these thieves had a very similar modus operandi to Chatty McChatterson who is also back in the news. This guy must seriously be one of the most interesting men in the world…
Tags: belmont, boston marathon, daly city, google, menlo park, redwood city, san bruno, san carlos
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Yesterday, “Mayor Luigi” showed us all the very definition of tone deaf. In the midst of a terrorist attack on America he publishes a blog on San Jose Inside advocating for the privatization of police officers and firefighters at SJC, one of the Valley’s most likely targets. Heck of a job “Mayor” Sweatpants.
25 Bay Area marathoners registered for the Boston Marathon. Check the Google “people finder” page to search for loved ones.
Airport Re-dux? A whole lot of noise is coming out of SJC airport spin artist Bill Sherry. Elimination of the airport noise curfew is on the SJ Council agenda tonight, let’s see if the council’s resident contortionist Sam Liccardo can maneuver out of this one.
San Jose made CNN in a bad way again. (Apparently) the Valley’s hookers have gone high tech by innovating something called “Whorecasting.” Their term not ours. With all of the police cutbacks at least Mayor Reed was able to put the Ho back in San Jose.
The Merc is for sale. No not the actual paper (for the time being), just the building it lives in at 750 Ridder Park Drive. And (apparently) Mac is being coy on whether the paper’s new location will even be in San Jose.
A little outside our jurisdiction, but curious nonetheless, Caltrans is murdering swallows in Sonoma. No word on whether they were African or European.
Shirakawa loses another 50K, this time to the FPPC. The proposed fine will be voted on by the FPPC at their April 25th hearing. The Vegas line is 2-1 that if George travels to Sacramento to appear at the hearing in person on his way back he’ll stop at Thunder Valley; it’s 6-5 that he stops on the way up. In other FPPC news, we’re still waiting on the outcome of that watchdog’s investigation of Chuck Reed and his IE for Rose Herrera.
SJ Inside reports that Constant has gotta get him some Micky D’s. Calling neighborhood leaders “bullies” and “do-gooders” for caring about traffic safety is sure to be repeated when Constant runs, or shall we say, waddles for mayor in 2014.
NBC reports that the California Public Utilities Commission sucks at its job. The sighs of relief at 200 E. Santa Clara and 70 West Heading over finally not being in the Unit’s bull’s-eye could be heard all the way at our intern’s retreat at Casa de Fruta. Why Casa de Fruta you ask? Because. We. Can.
Tags: bill sherry, boston marathon, caltrans, casa de fruta, Chuck Reed, cpuc, fppc, george shirakawa, google, merc, nbc, Oliverio, pete constant, rose herrera, sam liccardo, sjc
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Friday, April 12th, 2013
Mayor Reed got smacked down pretty hard by Comish Bud Selig when he requested a meeting to beg for baseball in San Jose. Selig’s response reminds us of that one time former VP Dick Cheney was a Walmart greeter.
Mayor Reed’s all for open government, that is of course until it comes to disclosing his text conversations. We doubt the conversations are that interesting anyway.
Beavers have been sighted in Guadalupe River Park, nobody tell Pete Constant.
And it looks like Google hit a little snag in their effort to buy themselves an airport. The SV Business Journal reports the San Jose City Council punted on Tuesday.
Not content to simply be master of the social media universe, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has decided to enter the political fray.
The opening of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge is now up in the air as the bolts holding the thing up were defeated not by earthquakes…but by rain water.
Newby North Bay Congressman Jared Huffman took a swipe at the district shopping, desperate-to-be-a-congressman-wanna-be Ro Khanna this week. Better be careful Jared, Ro still has time to redirect his army of political mercenaries to a district near you. Meanwhile, Mike Honda was hosting a showing of NBC Bay Area’s Damian Trujillo’s documentary in Washington, DC. It’s hard to believe the mid-term elections are still almost two years away.
BART to San Jose is finally getting really, really underway…seriously how long does it take to lay a few miles of train track? Meanwhile, in far less time the Chinese have constructed the longest high-speed rail line in the world. Bart to San Jose…maybe in 2017 if we’re lucky.
California finally joined Power Ball this week. If you’re reading this you didn’t win.
Tags: bart, bay bridge, bud selig, Chuck Reed, dick cheney, google, guadalupe river, jared huffman, mark zuckerberg, mike honda, pete constant, power ball, ro khanna, san jose
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
In an interview with NBC Bay Area, DA Jeff Rosen channeled his best Col. Nathan R. Jessup from A Few Good Men and ordered the “Code Red” or rather timesheet alterations to drop some extra money on his top staffers. At the 43 second mark Jessup, err umm, Rosen orders the “Code Red.”
NBC also aired this report last night about Rosen’s admin leave discretion being cut off and a “gift of public funds”.
The Merc’s Tracey Kaplan reports that County Executive Jeff Smith ordered an “immediate cap on the amount of extra time off District Attorney Jeff Rosen can give his supervising lawyers, saying the number of hours he gave them in the past two years to make up for a pay cut appears “irregular and excessive.”
The Merc Ed Board chimes in too, calling for a “thorough public investigation.” They also decided to print a letter to the editor that postulates that the “DA must think we’re all idiots.” And in an unconfirmed report, Rosen’s mouthpiece Sean Webby was seen freebasing Tums in the basement of 70 West Hedding Street.
Over at SJ Inside Josh Koehn is still beating the Shirakawa horse and mourning over FINALLY being scooped by the Merc and NBC.
Google is about to buy an airport, well…a hanger at San Jose Mineta “International” Airport…stop snickering there’s still is a direct flight to Mexico—and (apparently) Japan will be back in June. Today, the San Jose City Council is poised to give it’s blessing on a deal, which will allow the company that manages jets owned by Larry and Sergey to build a new hanger.
In case you weren’t paying attention last night, Louisville beat Michigan.
Tags: george shirakawa, google, jeff rosen, jeff smith, merc, nbc bay area, san jose inside, san jose mineta international airport
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